{"id":384945,"date":"2025-11-17T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T09:57:08","slug":"elle-bisgaard-church-hope-knight-cathleen-mccadden-benjamin-honored-as-women-thought-leaders-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/384945\/","title":{"rendered":"Elle Bisgaard-Church, Hope Knight, Cathleen McCadden Benjamin honored as women thought leaders in government"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday morning, she was meeting<\/a> with Gov. Kathy Hochul and the mayor-elect. In the evening, Zohran Mamdani\u2019s incoming chief of staff and closest adviser<\/a> Elle Bisgaard-Church made an appearance at a private event with New York City\u2019s most powerful lobbying firm. Bisgaard-Church was among those honored at the \u201cWomen\u2019s Thought Leader Reception\u201d Thursday night, co-hosted by City & State and Kasirer.<\/p>\n

The room was full of some 250 women power brokers in politics, government, business, advocacy and the arts. Kasirer, founded by Suri Kasirer and led by women, remains the top lobbyist in New York city by compensation, raking in<\/a> more than $17 million in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Accepting her award, Bisgaard-Church told a story about when a visitor to Mamdani\u2019s Assembly office mistook the male intern for Mamdani\u2019s chief of staff, overlooking her. \u201cNo one meant any disrespect by it,\u201d she said. \u201cStill though, it says something about social expectations, about the roles of women in our society, and in politics especially.\u201d She thanked her single mom and emphasized Mamdani\u2019s core campaign promise of universal child care. \u201cIt is up to us to build and cultivate durable institutions, which make possible more fulfilling and many-sided lives for all people, especially women,\u201d Bisgaard-Church said.<\/p>\n

Bisgaard-Church\u2019s award was presented by immigrant advocate Adama Bah, founder and CEO of Afrikana, who has worked with Kasirer on advocating for the Empire State Licensing Act. The state bill would help gain access to professional and commercial licensure regardless of immigration status.<\/p>\n

Also recognized at the event were Hope Knight, president, CEO and commissioner of Empire State Development, and Cathleen McCadden Benjamin, Hochul\u2019s appointments secretary. In the private sector, honorees included Channon Lucas of the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Lynn Usdan of LVMH and Michelle Goldstein of Morgan Stanley.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With a sea change coming in City Hall, the city\u2019s political class is pressed to reestablish relationships with the incoming administration. After the program, Bisgaard-Church was promptly surrounded by attendees who wanted to shake her hand \u2013 including Kasirer herself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday morning, she was meeting with Gov. Kathy Hochul and the mayor-elect. In the evening, Zohran Mamdani\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":384946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,70742,405,403,13261,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-384945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-heard-around-town","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news-politics","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115564449402414702","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}