“We welcome Ms. Zauderer as the newest member of the Campaign Finance Board. We look forward to working with her to continue the Board's vigorous, nonpartisan and independent oversight of New York City's nationally-recognized public matching funds program," said Board Chair Rose Gill Hearn and Board members Art Chang, Richard J. Davis, and Mark Piazza, in a joint statement.
Ms. Zauderer is the associate executive director of the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY, a role she has held since 2008. She has more than 19 years of experience in union organizing, collective bargaining, and contract administration across a number of fields.
From 2002 until 2008, she served as the executive director of the New York Professional Nurses Union (NYPNU) where she participated in negotiating the 2003 and 2006 collective bargaining agreements, and coordinated contract administration, including grievance handling and preparing for arbitration. Prior to NYPNU, Ms. Zauderer worked at the National Employment Law Project and with UAW Locals 1981 (National Writers Union), and 2165 (Association of Graduate Student Employees).
Ms. Zauderer earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government from the College of William and Mary and she is a Ph. D. candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She was appointed to the Board on February 27, 2016, to serve the remainder of a five-year term ending in November 2020.
Ms. Zauderer succeeds Courtney Hall, who was appointed to the Board in July 2010 by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
"I welcome Ms. Zauderer to the CFB and I want to express the Board's heartfelt thanks to Mr. Hall for his service," said Amy Loprest, executive director of the CFB. "We will miss his intelligence, humor and passion for New York City and we wish him the very best with all his future endeavors."
As mandated by the City Charter and the New York City Campaign Finance Act, the CFB is composed of five board members: two are appointed by the mayor, two by the speaker of the City Council, and the chair, by the mayor after consultation with the speaker. The Board is strictly nonpartisan, and the mayor’s and the speaker’s two appointees must not be affiliated with the same political party. Board members serve staggered, five year terms.