Annual Conference

CDPAANYS prioritizes education and quality in our breakout sessions and speaker engagements. This year, we will feature twelve breakout sessions targeting fiscal intermediaries & providers, as well as additional sessions geared toward consumers and those engaged in advocacy.

Announcing This Year’s Keynote Speakers:

Yorman Nuñez, MIT CoLab – Director, Just Urban Economies

Yorman is interested in playing a role in lifting people out of poverty through redesigning the economic system that is our economy, including the low-wage workforce that includes home care workers and personal assistants. His commitment to designing systems to address the causes of poverty emerged out of his work as a community organizer with the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), where he organized young people around issues of sustainable economic development, education, and voter education. It was during this time that Yorman co-founded the Urban Youth Collaborative, a city-wide youth organization working on education reform. He moved on from NWBCCC to lead a career in electoral organizing, where he managed many political campaigns. He currently coordinates the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative, a local effort in the Bronx that seeks to leverage local assets to drive economic development strategies targeted at building wealth and ownership among low-income residents. Yorman, a lifelong resident of the Bronx, has taught both community organizing and spoken word at the high school level.

Greg Olson, Director, NYS Office for the Aging

Greg Olsen is the Acting Director of the New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA), where he oversees the agency’s day-to-day operations and the administration of federal and state-funded programs designed to assist the more than 4.6 million older adult residents in the state, as well as programs that assist family members and others involved with helping older adults needing greater levels of assistance. NYSOFA assists older New Yorkers to be as independent as possible, for as long as possible, through advocacy and the development and delivery of programs and services that support and empower older New Yorkers and their families, in partnership with the network of public and private organizations that serve them. Greg has served in a variety of executive management positions within the agency.