Lisa J. Pino, MA, JD, Esq.

Executive Deputy Commissioner · New York State Department of Health · company speakers →

Lisa J. Pino is an attorney, public service executive, and former Obama appointee and national security official. Her experience includes serving as a Biden-Harris USDA Agency Review Team Transition member, and as Senior Counselor to Secretary Jeh C. Johnson of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on crisis management, pandemic, immigration, cybersecurity, and business affairs. Before DHS, she was also appointed by President Obama as the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights, and Deputy Administrator of the SNAP program under the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. In the latter role, she led the nation’s largest nutrition assistance program during its highest growth period in history upon the recession as SNAP recipients grew from 33 to 46 million Americans and 17 million children. She is a former community organizer and immigration advocate and has dedicated her career to ending poverty and creating opportunities for low-income children, individuals, women, and families of diverse backgrounds. Prior to her federal service, she worked in Arizona as a staff attorney for migrant farmworkers, an affordable housing advocate for predatory lending victims. Before returning to New York, she practiced immigration law as Counsel for Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, D.C. She is a native New Yorker and first-generation Latina of immigrant parents. She is currently the Executive Deputy Commissioner at the New York State Department of Health where her focus is the COVID-19 operational response for 19.5 million New Yorkers.

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