Syracuse Sun

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh announced the appointment of Josephine Galdamez as Intergovernmental Affairs Coordinator. Galdamez will support the City’s work with government partners at the local, state, and federal levels, coordinate legislative and funding requests, and oversee multiple neighborhood, community, and intergovernmental initiatives.

Prior to joining the City of Syracuse, Galdamez served as a Housing AID Case Manager for Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. She also worked as an Environmental Justice and Data Analyses intern with the office of the Attorney General of New York, where she provided research on policy recommendations.

Galdamez recently completed an environmental program fellowship working with Emerald Cities Collaborative through Yale University School of the Environment. In this role, she developed plans that maximized federal funds from environmental policies through the Inflation Reduction Act for local governments and community-based organizations.

Galdamez received her Bachelor of Arts in politics and Latin American studies from the University of California Santa Cruz and her Master of Public Administration with a Certificate of Advanced Studies for Data Analyses in Public Policy from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.