Laura Negrón serves as New York City’s chief privacy officer and general counsel to the Mayor’s Office of Operations. Prior to leading the legal and privacy team at Operations, Negrón served as Executive agency counsel for HHS Connect, a program that provides IT tools and solutions to help Health and Human Services agencies coordinate interagency case management. Previously, she was director of the Guardianship Project, a demonstration program at the Vera Institute of Justice that appoints legal, social, and other support services to individuals with disabilities and elderly people in New York City. She has also served as a deputy county attorney at the Legal Counsel and Affirmative Litigation Bureaus of the Nassau County Attorney’s Office, and as dean of Institutional Advancement for Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.