DORIS Commissioner Shanta Smith-Cruz introduces herself and her team
Shanta Smith-Cruz, newly appointed Commissioner of the Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS), introduces colleagues Rose Nagel-Indigoyen, Lauren Gilbert, and Sylvia Collar, and notes she is joined by Commissioner Tasha Van Auken of the Office of Mass Engagement.
Hello, good morning.
Chair Brewer, members of City Council, it's a true pleasure to introduce the work of the Department of Records and Information Services, Describe Policy, Records Management, and Retention.
My name is Shanta Smith-Cruz, and also if you are reading along, this is not a draft, so you can delete that from the top of the page.
I'm the newly appointed commissioner for the Department for Records and Information Services, affectionately known as DORIS, and we appreciate your affection, Chair Brewer.
I am joined by my colleagues, Rose Nagel-Indigoyen, Director of Municipal Records, Lauren Gilbert, Director of Municipal Library, behind me, and Sylvia Collar, Director of Municipal Archives, also sitting behind me.
I'm also grateful to be here.
Alongside Commissioner Tasha Van Auken and her colleagues from the Office of Mass Engagement.
My background is as a writer.
writer, editor, academic librarian, community archivist, faculty member in information science, and native New Yorker.