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Note: Several participantsâ internet connections were unstable during this interview. Some audio broke up, and as a result sections of this transcript are slightly disjointed.
Kathleen Kingsbury: Thank you for taking this time to be with us. I wanted to ask you, to start, if you could tell us a little bit about why you want this job and why you are the best candidate in the field. Just because we have very limited time together, brevity would be very appreciated.
Brevity is the key. So, let me tell you why. New York is broke, itâs broken and itâs divided. Covid has exacerbated and exposed that divide. As you all know, as youâve reported on, the economy is stated to have a 13 percent unemployment rate, and in many of our boroughs, over 20 percent. The divide that it has exposed, the divide that