BP MARKOWITZ STATEMENT ON FATIMA A. SHAMA APPOINTMENT AS COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRANT AFFAIRS

“Mayor Michael Bloomberg continues to seek out the best and brightest when it comes to serving the residents of New York City, and who better to address the needs of one of our city’s most important assets—our immigrant population—than Fatima Shama, whose previous successes in Brooklyn and beyond have led to education reform and improvements in health care services. Ms. Shama’s contributions, of course, include her visionary leadership of the Greater Brooklyn Health Coalition, an organization that focuses on health care throughout Brooklyn, where large communities of immigrants reside. Ms. Shama has served Brooklynites and all New Yorkers with distinction, and I am confident she will continue, as New York City’s Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, to help make Brooklyn and New York City the best places for immigrants to live, work and raise children.”