Robert Cordero
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Grand Street Settlement
Robert Cordero is the Chief Executive Officer of Grand Street Settlement, one of the largest, most impactful, and most trusted social services organizations in New York City.
It serves over 18,000 New Yorkers with vital early childhood, youth, and older adult programs with impactful benefits, casework, and a vast network of partners that includes addressing the social drivers of health for Ryan Health patients. Under Robert’s leadership, he has expanded the organization’s services across the Lower East Side, Brooklyn, and its first-ever expansion into the Bronx with new Head Start centers. Earlier in his career, he oversaw the HIV case management program at Ryan Health, before going on to serve as President and Chief Program Office of Boom! Health and received the Joan H. Tisch Community Health Leadership Prize for outstanding work in the fields of health and harm reduction services.