by Lisa J. Pino 1 Lisa J. Pino is an attorney, public service executive, and former Obama and Biden political appointee who holds fifteen years of legal, program, policy, and management experience across public health, civil rights, immigration, food insecurity, agriculture, and equity fields. Most recently, she served in the Biden-Harris administration as the Director of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and on Biden’s Agency Review team for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Prior to the Biden administration, she was appointed by Governor Andrew Cuomo as the New York State Department of Health’s Executive Deputy Commissioner during the COVID-19 public health emergency. As the agency’s #2 official, she served 19.5 million New Yorkers, conducting over 7 million vaccinations at 15.2 million doses, administering 100,000-314,000 COVID-19 tests per day, hiring 6,000 contact tracers, and donating over 1 million PPE sources.
