2025 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing - Economic Development/Arts
February 26, 2025
2:00 PM
Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, Albany
Transcript Pending
Testimony
Commissioner, New York State Department of Economic Development
President & CEO, Empire State Development
Acting Executive Director
NYS Office of Cannabis Management
Commissioner
NYS Office of General Services
Executive Director
New York State Council on the Arts
Director, Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program
Community Service Society of New York
Executive Director
Business Incubator Association of NYS
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Elmira
Counsel
Popular Democracy
Executive Director
ACE! (Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy)
Co-Chair
New York Film and Television Production Industry Council
Artist
Studio OSYARI
Executive Director
Freelancers Union
Executive Director
Creatives Rebuild New York
President Elect
New York State Alliance for Arts Education
Co-Executive Director
Dance/NYC
Executive Director
ArtsNYS
President
Association of New York Cannabis Processors
President
NY Cannabis Retail Association
President
Cannabis Farmers Alliance
Spokesperson
New York Medical Cannabis Industry Association
Written Testimony
Senior Policy Fellow
Reinvent Albany
Director
Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute (ACLP) at New York Law School
President & CEO
Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY)
Empire Cannabis Manufacturing Alliance
Albany Film Commissioner
Film Albany
President & CEO
Henry Street Settlement
NY State Director
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)
Policy Director
The League of American Bicyclists