PERSON: Melissa DeRosa

Board Member

Melissa DeRosa is an American former government official. She served as secretary to the former governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, from 2017 until 2021. She was described by The New York Times as the most powerful appointed official in the state as well as being the first woman appointed to the role. She and Cuomo resigned on the same day in 2021 after a report from the state’s attorney general concluded that he had sexually harassed nearly a dozen women and DeRosa had “spearheaded efforts to retaliate against one of the women who had spoken out publicly about her allegation.”

DeRosa was born on September 29, 1982, in Rochester, N.Y. and raised in Albany and Saratoga Springs, New York and has two siblings. She is the daughter of Melody DeRosa, a retired education technology consultant for Texas Instruments, and Giorgio DeRosa, a powerful lobbyist who is a senior partner at Bolton-St. Johns, an Albany-based lobbying firm. DeRosa’s brother and sister also work at Bolton-St. Johns.

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