Seema Shah is the Executive Director of Civic Hall, the new connective hub for the tech workforce development and entrepreneurial community in New York. Civic Hall’s mission is to support and enable best-in-class programs that help close the digital skills divide and plan for the needs of tomorrow’s workforce.
Seema Shah is the Executive Director of Civic Hall, the new connective hub for the tech workforce development and entrepreneurial community in New York. Civic Hall’s mission is to support and enable best-in-class programs that help close the digital skills divide and plan for the needs of tomorrow’s workforce.
Seema Shah most recently led an “Innovation Policy” team at the New York State Department of Financial Services where she supported their work with internal digital transformation and external market innovation in financial services.
Prior to that, Seema was the Director of Innovation at LaGuardia Community College, part of the City University of New York, the largest urban public university system in the country. In her role at LaGuardia, she helped the campus secure over $25 million in new federal, state and city funding to expand and revitalize the value proposition of higher education in New York City.
Seema earned her Executive MBA from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, her Master’s in Urban Policy and Management from Milano, The New School University and her Bachelor’s from Barnard College, Columbia University.
