Maria Torres-Springer

In November 2025, Torres-Springer was named as a co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s (D) transition team when he was Mayor-elect of New York City.  ²

Career

As of January 2026, Maria Torres-Springer was the president of Charles H. Revson Foundation. Previously, Torres-Springer was a senior fellow at the Ford Foundation from April 2025 to January 2026. During that same time period, she was also an executive in waiting at the Boston Consulting Group.  ¹

Torres-Springer worked in the New York City Office of the Mayor during the mayorship of Eric Adams (D), first as deputy mayor for housing, economic development and workforce from January 2022 to October 2024 and later as the first deputy mayor from October 2024 to April 2025.  ¹

Prior to her work in the NYC Office of the Mayor, Torres-Springer worked as a vice president of U.S. Programs for the Ford Foundation from April 2019 to January 2022.  ¹

Prior to that, she was a commissioner for the New York City Department of Housing and Preservation & Development from February 2017 to March 2019. She was also the chief executive officer for the New York City Economic Development Corporation from July 2015 to February 2017, a commissioner at the New York City Department of Small Business Services from March 2015 to June 2016, and the chief operating officer of Friends of the High Line from October 2012 to February 2015.  ¹

Mamdani Transition Team

In November 2025, Torres-Springer was named as a co-chair of then-New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s (D) transition team. Other co-chairs of the transition team included Grace Bonilla, the president of the United Way of New York City; Lina Khan, a former chair of the Federal Trade Commission; and Melanie Hartzog, the president of the New York Foundling.  ²

The executive director of Mamdani’s transition team was Elana Leopold, and Dean Fuleihan was named as the first deputy mayor. Both Leopold and Fuleihan worked for former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s (D) administration.  ²

Charles H. Revson Foundation

As of January 2026, Torres-Springer was the president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation.  ³

In 2024, the Charles H. Revson Foundation reported $14,441,102 in revenue, $11,091,743 in expenses, and $198,877,998 in net assets.  ⁴

The foundation makes grants in areas such as “Jewish Life,” “Biomedical Research,” and “Education and Urban Affairs.” Over the five years leading up to 2026, the foundation claims that through its “Jewish Life” program it awarded $10.4 million, of which amount $6 million went to Israel.  ^{5  6}

The Foundation also funds voter mobilization campaigns in New York. According to the group, it funds local journalism and youth voter education programs, as part of its voter mobilization efforts. It also established and co-chairs the campaign GoVoteNYC, a funding collective composed of the Altman Foundation, Brooklyn Org, the Ford Foundation, the Movement Voter Fund, The New York Community Trust, the New York Foundation, the New York Women’s Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Scherman Foundation, Trinity Church NYC Philanthropies, and the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock.  ^{7  8}