Mental Health Awareness

Tuesday, August 31st, 2021
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Hudson Hall, West Room
327 Warren Street
Featuring: Mayor Kamal Johnson, Cheryl Roberts, Esq.

Kamal Johnson was elected to serve as the Mayor of Hudson, NY in 2019. He made history as the first black Mayor of Hudson, NY and at 34 years old, the youngest. Partnering to create the Shared Streets program, Hudson Safe, WiFi hotspots, and more, Mayor Kamal has helped the city get on top of one of the hardest years on record.

Previously, as the chair of the Police Committee and the Youth, Education, Seniors & Recreation Committee, he successfully facilitated difficult community conversations and pushed for better and more effective services for Hudson residents. Johnson also worked as the Co-Director of the Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood, a non-profit organization that supports children growing up in the Hudson City School District. Additionally he served as the Coordinator of POPS, a community fatherhood initiative.

Johnson grew up in Hudson and graduated from Columbia Greene Community College in 2005, and from SUNY New Paltz in 2007, with degrees in History and Early Childhood Education.

Cheryl Roberts, Esq., is Executive Director of the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice, a nonprofit Roberts founded with Francis Greenburger in 2014 to advocate for the decriminalization of people living with serious mental illness.

Roberts also serves as Corporation Counsel to the City of Hudson, New York, the first woman appointed to that role, and is a licensed bond agent, providing pro-bono bond agent services.

Ms. Roberts is a former town judge from Columbia County, New York and earlier in her career practiced environmental and land use law and served as a counsel to committees in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.