Marco Carrion

Marco A. Carrión currently serves as Executive Director of El Puente.   Founded in 1982, El Puente is a youth-centered human rights organization based in Brooklyn and Puerto Rico that uses education and the arts to advance racial and environmental justice. 

He previously served as the Commissioner of New York City’s Community Affairs Unit, as a direct link between the Mayor and our city’s neighborhoods. Through the Community Affairs Unit, Marco and his team brought together community groups, non-profit organizations, civic associations, houses of worship, and concerned citizens to address and rectify issues facing residents of the five boroughs. 

Marco’s commitment to communities was honed in the national and local labor movements, fighting for the needs of working people. He worked for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and later served as the Political and Legislative Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, where he forged deep partnerships among the 300 local unions and 1.3 million members of the CLC represented while designing political strategies. Marco began his career at one of New York City’s largest municipal unions, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), where he engaged all levels of government on education, labor, health, and human rights issues, and organized its members' efforts on electoral and legislative campaigns.

Marco has also worked for two New York State Governors and served as the Chief of Staff for the NYS Senate Health Committee Chair.