On April 9, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Special Assistant to the Borough President Yvonne Graham hosted a panel discussion and breakfast at Brooklyn Borough Hall, during which religious and business leaders addressed the issue of faith-based institutions serving as community resources.

Panelists included the Reverend Dr. Herbert Daughtry, Pastor of the House of the Lord Church and President of the Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance; Paul Kerzner, Manager of Con Edison’s Renaissance Housing Program; Alan Goodman, Executive Director, Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service; Moses Mansu, Assistant Director of Office of Minority Health for NYC DOHMH; Louis Jerome, Sephardic Food Fund; and Reverend Dr. Samuel Sierra, Executive Director, Teen Challenge.

Other attendees included Michael Flanigan, Director of Community Relations, Citibank; Thomas Newell, Vice President of Brooklyn Electric Operations, Con Edison; Imam Ekrem Ozcan, Turkish American Islamic Center; and Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President, New York Board of Rabbis.