Columbia University
04/20 – Prof. Kimberly Phillips-Fein Discusses Mayor Mamdani’s First 100 Days with WNYC Panel
The event, moderated by senior WNYC reporter Brigid Bergin, opened with an hour-long, one-on-one interview with Mayor Zohran Mamdani and was followed by a panel discussion around his first 100 days in office. The panel featured Professor Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Robert Gardiner-Kenneth T. Jackson Professor of History at Columbia University and author of Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics; Dennis M. Walcott, President and CEO of Queens Public Library and member of Mayor Mamdani’s and Comptroller Mark Levine’s transition committees; and Melissa Mark Viverito, President of Hamilton Campaign Network. The full video, featuring the interview with Mayor Mamdani and the ensuing panel discussion (starting at 1:10:00), can be found here.