{"id":196,"date":"2022-10-05T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/committees\/youth-education-cultural-affairs\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:02:00","slug":"youth-education-cultural-affairs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/all-committees\/youth-education-cultural-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth, Education &amp; Cultural Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Youth, Education &amp; Cultural Affairs (YECA) Committee advocates for young people and educational and cultural programs for all District residents, and reviews matters related to relevant institutions within the District including <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/19PrTMn83CVBfpnHOYy6CfMYzqBqmnIMP\/view?usp=drive_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its 6 branch locations<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bklynlibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn Public Library<\/a>\u00a0system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This Committee typically meets at 6pm on the 3rd Tuesday of every month<\/strong>, except during the Citywide summer recess months of July and August. All interested neighbors are encouraged to attend and participate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/about\/newsletter\/\">Subscribe to the District newsletter<\/a> for first notice of meetings, and confirm all dates, times, locations, and agendas on the District\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/calendar\/\">live calendar<\/a>. Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiny.cc\/bk02public\">BKCD2 Public Drive<\/a>\u00a0to review the archive of previous meeting materials.<\/p>\n<h2>2026 Committee Members<\/h2>\n<p><b>Chairperson:<\/b> <em>vacant<\/em><br \/>\n<b>Vice-Chair:<\/b> Nicholas Ferreira<br \/>\n<b>Secretary:<\/b> Mary Ellen Sullivan<br \/>\nDaniel Bersohn<br \/>\nDymond Holmes<br \/>\nSamantha Johnson<br \/>\nTamara McCaw<br \/>\nSantia Pelliccia<br \/>\nKaren Xiao<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"card-text\">The Youth, Education &amp; Cultural Affairs (YECA) Committee advocates for young people and educational and cultural programs for all District residents, and reviews matters related to relevant institutions within the<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-auto\"><a class=\"btn btn-secondary mt-auto\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/all-committees\/youth-education-cultural-affairs\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1739,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/1739"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cbbrooklyn.cityofnewyork.us\/cb2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}