Mamdani taps former Biden administration official to be next ACS commissioner

‘Born Into the System’: NYC’s New Children’s Services Commissioner

Rebecca Jones Gaston is the new commissioner for the Administration for Children’s Services, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday.  Jones Gaston served as commissioner of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families in President Joe Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services and before that as the child welfare director for Oregon’s Department of Human Services. She is a social worker by training.  In a statement, Mamdani said Jone…

POLITICS: Zohran Mamdani’s ACS choice puts ‘racial equity’ above keeping NYC kids safe and alive

“It’s really hard to think about anything other than dismantling [the child welfare system] entirely and creating something different.” This is according to Rebecca Jones Gaston, New York City’s newly appointed Commissioner of the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). Jones Gaston previously served as the leader of child welfare agencies in Oregon and Maryland, as well as the head of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families du…

Mamdani taps former Biden administration official to be next ACS commissioner

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has tapped Rebecca Jones Gaston, a former senior Biden Administration official who spent time in foster care as an infant, to be his commissioner of the NYC Administration for Children’s Services.  The mayor plans to announce Ms. Gaston’s appointment in a news release Tuesday, City Hall officials confirmed to NBC New York.  “I am excited to announce...