{"id":28,"date":"2026-01-12T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/?page_id=28"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:00:10","slug":"meet-the-team","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/meet-the-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\">\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Name<\/td>\n<td>Position<\/td>\n<td>Email<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jackson Fischer-Ward<\/td>\n<td>Chief of Staff<\/td>\n<td>jfischer-ward@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chanel Elliott<\/td>\n<td>Deputy Chief of Staff<\/td>\n<td>celliott@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jenna Meehan<\/td>\n<td>Legislative Director<\/td>\n<td>jmeehan@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Maanika Gupta<\/td>\n<td>Office Manager<\/td>\n<td>d02scheduling@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Julia Rudy<\/td>\n<td>Communications Coordinator<\/td>\n<td>jrudy@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jen Kruse<\/td>\n<td>Budget Director<\/td>\n<td>jkruse@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ben Gutschow<\/td>\n<td>Community Liaison<\/td>\n<td>bgutschow@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jeemin Cha<\/td>\n<td>Community Liaison<\/td>\n<td>jcha@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Ciara Lugo<\/td>\n<td>Council Member Aide<\/td>\n<td>clugo@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tehreem Saleem<\/td>\n<td>Legislative Fellow<\/td>\n<td>tsaleem@council.nyc.gov<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name<br \/>\nPosition<br \/>\nEmail<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Fischer-Ward<br \/>\nChief of Staff<br \/>\njfischer-ward@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Chanel Elliott<br \/>\nDeputy Chief of Staff<br \/>\ncelliott@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Jenna Meehan<br \/>\nLegislative Director<br \/>\njmeehan@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Maanika Gupta<br \/>\nOffice Manager<br \/>\nd02scheduling@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Julia Rudy<br \/>\nCommunications Coordinator<br \/>\njrudy@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Jen Kruse<br \/>\nBudget Director<br \/>\njkruse@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Ben Gutschow<br \/>\nCommunity Liaison<br \/>\nbgutschow@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Jeemin Cha<br \/>\nCommunity Liaison<br \/>\njcha@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Ciara Lugo<br \/>\nCouncil Member Aide<br \/>\nclugo@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n<p>Tehreem Saleem<br \/>\nLegislative Fellow<br \/>\ntsaleem@council.nyc.gov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":349,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/349"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/harvey-epstein\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}