Growing up in the outskirts of Brooklyn in an area dubbed the “murder capital of New York City” at the time and where 70%.
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Richard Buery
CEO of Robin Hood & Former CEO of Achievement First
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Growing up in the outskirts of Brooklyn in an area dubbed the “murder capital of New York City” at the time and where 70% of the resident are born into poverty, Richard Buery realized there were two cities: One where kids were expected to succeed and given the tools to do so. The other of economic inequality with a school-to-prison pipeline. That is something Buery vowed to change. And he’s made significant strides in improving the lives of New York City families and beyond. In fact, he has spent his career working toward this goal.
Richard is the CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty forces in the nation. He was the former Chief Executive Officer of Achievement First, a network of 37 public charter schools providing an excellent education to 15,000 students across New York, Connecticut and Rhode Island. He came to Achievement First from the KIPP Foundation, where he serves as Chief of Policy & Public Affairs for a national network of over 224 college-preparatory, public charter schools in 20 states and the District of Columbia educating nearly 100,000 early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. He is a Public Service Fellow at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and served as Distinguished Visiting Urbanist during the Spring of 2019. He is also a Senior Fellow at the GovLab at NYU, where he advises on projects relating to cities and non-profits, a partner at the Perception Institute, and a distinguished Visiting Professor at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering.
Richard previously served as deputy mayor for strategic policy initiatives in the administration of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. He managed some of the City’s most successful initiatives, and is credited as the architect of Pre-K for All, which for the first time offers free, full-day Pre-K for every 4-year old in NYC, increasing enrollment from 19,000 to 70,000 children in 18 months and launching its expansion to 3-year olds. The launch of PreK For All is widely recognized as one of the most successful initiatives in the recent history of NYC.
As deputy mayor, he also launched Schools Out NYC, offering free afterschool programs to every middle schooler in NYC; ThriveNYC, a comprehensive effort to improve New Yorkers’ mental health, and the Community Schools Initiative, creating 215 new community school service partnerships during the first term, more than the double the number the Mayor initially pledged to create. He managed a range of city agencies, including the Departments of Probation, Aging, Youth and Community Development, People with Disabilities, and Immigrant Affairs. As leader of the NYC Young Men’s Initiative, he created NYC Men Teach, a historic effort to recruit 1,000 men of color to become public school teachers. He also led the creation of the New York City Children’s Cabinet, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Mayor’s Office of Minority and Women Business Enterprises. Under his leadership, the City exceeded $1 billion of spending with M/WBEs for the first time in its history, double the annual spend before Mayor de Blasio took office. He also managed the City’s relationship with the 250,000 student City University of New York System, managing significant investments that improved college persistence for NYC students.
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