Practice Areas: Advocacy; Civil Rights; Social Justice; Aging; Children and Youth Services; Housing; Government; Human Services; Professional Association; Networking; Community Services

Select Support Center Experience: Center for Food Action

Nancy Wackstein is a veteran human services leader in New York City in both the governmental and nonprofit sectors. Ms. Wackstein most recently served as Director of Community Engagement and Partnerships at Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service, where she is currently an Adjunct Faculty Instructor for MSW students. Ms. Wackstein served from 2002 to 2015 as Executive Director of United Neighborhood Houses. Prior to UNH, she was the Executive Director of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House for 11 years. Ms. Wackstein served as Director of the NYC Mayor’s Office on Homelessness and SRO Housing from 1990-91 under Mayor David N. Dinkins and was Senior Policy Advisor for Human Services in Manhattan Borough from l986-l989. Over the course of her career, Ms. Wackstein has served on many nonprofit Boards and NYC government task forces and commissions, and continues to do so. She received a bachelor’s degree from Binghamton University, SUNY, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a master’s degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW). In 2009 Ms.Wackstein was inducted into the CUSSW Hall of Fame. In 2013 Ms. Wackstein was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from her alma mater Binghamton University.

Networks/ Affinity Groups: United Neighborhood Houses