Leadership

Annika Lescott
Andrew Kaplan

Andrew Kaplan joined NYCHA as Deputy Chief of Staff in December 2019 and was appointed Chief of Staff in November 2022. Before joining NYCHA, Andrew was a Policy Advisor in the NYC Mayor's Office where he worked on public housing, affordable housing, and homelessness policy. Andrew has also served as the Co-Director of the Rhodes Artificial Intelligence Lab (RAIL) and as an Urban Fellow at the NYC Mayor's Office of Operations.

Andrew holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Political Science from Brown University and a Master of Philosophy degree in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He was born and raised in New York City..