Gale Brewer

Gale Arnot Brewer (born September 6, 1951) is the 27th and current Borough President of Manhattan and a Democratic politician from New York. She used to be a member of the New York City Council, where she represented the Upper West Side and the northern part of Clinton in Manhattan. She was elected Manhattan Borough President on November 5, 2013.

Career

Brewer graduated from Bennington College in 1973 and Columbia University in 1997. She then earned an Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. From 1975 to 1978, Brewer served as director of scheduling for Mary Anne Krupsak, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York. From 1978 to 1990, she was chief of staff to then-New York City Council member Ruth Messinger. From 1990 to 1994, Brewer was director of the New York City Office of Federal Relations in New York in the administration of David Dinkins. From 1994 to 1998, she was Deputy Public Advocate for Intergovernmental Affairs under Mark J. Green.