Dr. Mitchell Katz

President and Chief Executive Officer of NYC Health + Hospitals

Since 2018 Dr. Mitchell Katz has led NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal health care system in the United States with 11 acute care hospitals, dozens of community health centers, and an insurance plan, Metro Health Plus, among other vital healthcare resources. Dr. Katz has modernized major aspects within the system, including the creation of an outreach program to homeless New Yorkers, and NYC Care for more than 100,000 uninsured New Yorkers. And he led the financial turn-around, enrolling more New Yorkers into health insurance. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Katz provided strategic advice to the city. He directed the system's response to the surge of patients and orchestrated the hospitals' leading Test and Trace operation and more than 1.3 million COVID-19 vaccines.

Luchia Meihua Lee

Executive Director and Chief Curator, Taiwanese American Arts Council

Building bridges between communities, nationally and internationally through art and culture to deepen our senses of beauty, inspiration, and empathy. Mission, Taiwanese American Arts Council

Luchia Meihua Lee is renowned for her expertise in the fields of contemporary art, photography and new media at museums and cultural centers throughout New York City and in her home country of Taiwan. As Chief Curator at the Taiwanese American Arts Council, she engages a public audience through new and innovative ways, most recently with the multi-media exhibit, Urban Tribes--The transnational movement of people in the era of globalization. Over the span of her distinguished career in the art field she also guest curated many exhibitions and programs at the Queens Museum from 2003 to 2018; Deputy Curator at the Chinese Information and Cultural Center, Taipei Economic & Cultural Office in New York; Specialist for the Council for Cultural Affairs in Taiwan; and Chief Curator and Director of Exhibition Development at the National Taiwan Museum of Art.