2025 Joint Legislative Budget Hearing - Economic Development/Arts
February 26, 2025
2:00 PM
Hearing Room B, Legislative Office Building, Albany

Transcript Pending
Testimony
Hope Knight
Commissioner, New York State Department of Economic Development
President & CEO, Empire State Development

Felicia B. Reid
Acting Executive Director
NYS Office of Cannabis Management

Jeanette Moy
Commissioner
NYS Office of General Services

Erika Mallin
Executive Director
New York State Council on the Arts

Carolina Rodriguez
Director, Education Debt Consumer Assistance Program
Community Service Society of New York

Marc Alessi
Executive Director
Business Incubator Association of NYS

Dr. Richard Terry, DO MBA
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine at Elmira

Michael Kink
Counsel
Popular Democracy

Corey Aldrich
Executive Director
ACE! (Upstate Alliance for the Creative Economy)

Santiago QuiƱones
Co-Chair
New York Film and Television Production Industry Council

Rachael Lorimer
Artist
Studio OSYARI

Rafael Espinal
Executive Director
Freelancers Union

Sarah Calderon
Executive Director
Creatives Rebuild New York

William Jones
President Elect
New York State Alliance for Arts Education

Candace Thompson-Zachery
Co-Executive Director
Dance/NYC

Elizabeth Lane
Executive Director
ArtsNYS

John Vavalo
President
Association of New York Cannabis Processors

Britni Tantalo
President
NY Cannabis Retail Association

Joe Calderone
President
Cannabis Farmers Alliance

Ngiste Abebe
Spokesperson
New York Medical Cannabis Industry Association

Written Testimony
Ron Deutsch
Senior Policy Fellow
Reinvent Albany

Michael Santorelli
Director
Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute (ACLP) at New York Law School

Jonathan Teyan
President & CEO
Associated Medical Schools of New York (AMSNY)

Nicolas Guarino
Empire Cannabis Manufacturing Alliance

Debby Goedeke
Albany Film Commissioner
Film Albany

David Garza
President & CEO
Henry Street Settlement

Jobs to Move America

Ashley Ranslow
NY State Director
National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)

New York State Film and TV Production Tax Credit program

Production Initiatives Association

Ken McLeod
Policy Director
The League of American Bicyclists