30 BLACK INFLUENCERS: The New York Christian Times’ annual list in partnership with The Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce and other partners.

HON. YVETTE CLARKE

• Has served as U.S. Congress Member representing Brooklyn since 2007
• The daughter of former NYC Council Member Una Clarke; she won her mother’s council seat in 2001, accomplishing the first mother-to-daughter succession in Council history
• As a college student, she interned in the office of Brooklyn Congress Member Major Owens, and would later succeed him in the House of Representatives