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- Professional Services/ Skills
- Public Policy and Government Affairs:
Counsel on law,
legislation, and policy (including public safety, government structure, census,
education, environment, housing, land use, and transportation); develop
legislation and policy; devise and implement strategies to advance legislation and
policy initiatives. Budget and Fiscal Advisor (manage capital and expense budgets;
budget, fiscal and tax reform). Environment and Land-Use Planning
(representation, counsel and technical assistance).
- Political Consulting and Strategic Campaign Management:
Campaign Management (Devise and implement field and media strategies; petitions;
endorsements, labor, political and community outreach; compliance); develop and
recommend strategies to advance policies, priorities and initiatives; manage
and/or coordinate the implementation of policies, priorities and initiatives,
including projects and task forces; Staff-training and Technical Assistance (train
key staff; advise on agency structure and operations).
- Media and Public Affairs:
Serve as an authorized
spokesperson to electronic and print news media; develop and manage communication
and marketing strategies - including traditional print, electronic and new media
platforms - to advance initiatives; perform intergovernmental and community
relations, including representation and testimony at community, public and
government meetings and news conferences; and resolve problems with government.
Draft speeches, news releases, statements, oped articles, letters to the editor,
briefings, testimonies, position papers and newsletters. Website Management
(Devise content and appearance).
- Experience
- Counselor
Government and Public Affairs Practice
May 2003 - present
Queens, NY
Strategic Political Counseling including
Public Policy and Government Affairs, Political Consulting and Strategic Campaign
Management, Media and Public Affairs.
- Executive Vice President
Community Partnership
Referrals and Resources
August 2007 - 2011
Queens, NY
For
holistic human services agency dealing with forensic and special needs clients,
manage and supervise all non-clinical operations, including administration,
marketing, external relations and public affairs, fiscal, legal, human resources,
real estate, strategic business planning, and program and project development (www.CPRRservices.com).
- Columnist, The Public Ought to Know
TimesLedger Newspapers (June 2003 - May 2005)
Queens, NY
Wrote weekly public policy column for chain of 16 community newspapers.
(www.timesledger.com; view columns at http://coreybearak.com/columns.php)
- Director of Planning, Policy & Budget/Legislative
Counsel
Bronx Borough President
(February 1999 - May 2003)
Bronx,
New York
For Borough President Adolfo Carrion Jr., Managed three distinct government
units [Planning and Development, Policy and Budget, and Economic Development] and
Liaison to Communications office; also served as Acting General Counsel and Deputy
Agency Chief Contracting Officer (January 2002 - May 2003).
For Borough
President Fernando Ferrer (Legislative
Counsel) serving in Communications Unit, also revised and maintained agency
website, and lead staffer on CCRB, Charter Revision Commission and legislative
matters (February 1999 - December 2001). - Counsel/ Chief of
Staff
City Council
(September 1982
- January 1999)
Queens and New York, New York
For City Council Member
Sheldon S. Leffler [Public Safety committee chair 1989-1999; Environmental
Protection committee chair, 1986-1989]; managed City Hall and district
offices. - Attorney and Counselor At-Law
Private Law
Practice
(June 1982 - present)
Second Department, New York
Private
Practice in Wills, Estates, Guardianship and Incompetency matters, Real Estate,
Contracts. - Assistant to the Secretary of State
New
York State Department of State
(1978)
Albany and New York, New York
For Secretary of State Mario M. Cuomo (Resigned to enter law school.). - Education
- Hofstra University School of Law, Hempstead, New
York
J.D., May 31, 1981 (admitted to New York Bar, May 1982)
Editor-in-Chief, Conscience; Law Intern, Bronx District Attorney's Felony
Unit - Hofstra
University, Hempstead, New York
B.A. Political Science, June 1, 1977
Dean's List; Special Project: Motivation of Personnel.
- Professional Associations & Boards Community Service
- Gotham City Networking, Inc.®
(Co-Chair, GOtham GREEN®; Chair, Gotham Business POWER Breakfast; Gotham Sponsors Chair; Listserves Moderator)
- Community School Board 26
(1989-93; Legislative, Budget, Legal co-Chair)
- Community Board 13Q
(1980-1988, 2000-present)
- Services Now for Adult Persons
(Board Chair, April 2017-present; Executive Board Member, 2003-present; Treasurer, 2015-2017)
- Queens Civic Congress
(President, 2007-2010; Executive Vice President, 1999-present; Vice President, 1997-1999)
- Queens Civic Congress Foundation
(Vice President, 2004-2010; director, 2003. 2019-present)
- Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council
(Chair, Executive Committee, 1998-present; President, 1991-1998)
- Hofstra University School of Law Alumni Association
(First Vice President, 1998-2002; Trustee, 1995-1997, 2003-07; Secretary, 2007-2010)
- Order Knights of Pythias
(Chief Grand Tribune - Domain of NY, 2019-present; Associate Grand Tribune - Domain of NY, 2011-19; Assistant Chief Deputy Grand Chancellor, 2011-12; Executive Secretary to the Grand Chancellor 2011-2013, 2016-2022; Editor, Pythian Knight Magazine, 2015-2022; Secretary, FDR Lodge #613, 2006-present; Editor, The Beam of FDR Lodge #613, 2004-present)
- NORC-WOW (Naturally Occurring Retirement Community - Without Walls) Community Leadership
Advisory Board
(Co-Chair, 2003 - present)
- Flushing Meadows-Corona Park Conservancy
(founding Director; Director, 2003-2012)
- (Founding Co-chair, 1995-1996, and incorporator, 1996)
- Publications & Websites
- The Public Ought To Know ebook, Intelligent Arts, November, 2014
- The Property Tax: Creating stable, middle-class neighborhoods
Drum Major
Institute for Public Policy, October 2003
- Bringing Equity to the Property Tax in New York City
Drum Major Institute for Public Policy
(Contributor), April 2003
- The Public Ought to Know
weekly column on public policy in TimesLedger Newspapers (www.timesledger.com), June 2003 - May 2005
- The New York City Recycling Law: Reality Meets Idealism
Hofstra Environmental Law Digest, Fall
1990
- Whither Board of Estimate
Queens Bar Journal, February, 1986
- You Can Have It All brochure
Northeast Queens Jewish Community Council, 1992, rev.
1995, rev. 2004, rev. 2006
- www.queensciviccongress.org (archive site) [Developed content; directed design]
- www.northeastqueensjewish.org [Developed content; directed design]
- www.bpferrer.org [Developed new and revised content; directed re-design] (no longer generally available)
- CoreyBearak.com [Developed content; designed and built]
- KeepNYCFree.com [Developed content; designed and built]
- www.CPRRservices.com [Developed content; designed and built] (no longer generally available)
- http://resolve-it-123.com/ [Developed content; designed and built] (no longer generally available)
- http://knightsofpythiasnewyorkgrandlodge.com [Developed content, designed and built site]
- http://fdrlodge613knightsofpythias.com [Developed content, designed and built site]
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