iHeartRadio: CEOs You Should Know Interview with Dr. Jocelynne Rainey

Since 2022, Brooklyn Org’s President and CEO Dr. Jocelynne Rainey has visited neighborhoods across our borough as part of our annual Listening Tours, to meet with community members and give them the space to talk about the issues that impact them the most.
Through these community conversations, we aim to reach every part of Brooklyn over a three-year cycle; 2024 marked the conclusion of our first three years of conversations. We will now be spending 2025 amplifying all that we heard across these past three years, as we aim to elevate community concerns and solutions in this critical citywide municipal election year.
To share out the findings and feedback from our 2024 Listening Tour, we hosted a webinar earlier this month, covering nine diverse and deeply distinct neighborhoods from Sheepshead Bay to South Williamsburg.
You can stream it here:
The 2024 Listening Tour covered the following neighborhoods:
Though the needs of these neighborhoods are as diverse as the people who call them home, we found that there are a number of issues impacting Brooklynites boroughwide.
Top 3 Trends Across Sessions:
Emerging Trends, New Since 2023:
To ensure that we take our listening tour participants’ feedback to heart, we’re moving forward with a number of exciting, actionable next steps.