The day after his historic win in the 2025 NYC Mayor's Race, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani unveiled a team of four women who will help lead the transition into his administration, a crew that the Democrat says will include government veterans and nonprofit leaders.

Mamdani announced his transition team co-chairs in front of the Unisphere in Queens’ Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Nov. 5. He named political strategist Elana Leopold as the transition executive director.

The group includes Maria Torres-Springer, outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ former first deputy mayor; Lina Khan, former chair of the Federal Trade Commission during the Biden administration; Grace Bonilla, CEO of the nonprofit United Way NYC; and Melanie Hartzog, who has served as a deputy mayor during the de Blasio administration a

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