Leenda Bonilla

Civic Engagement Commission


Leenda Bonilla

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Commissioners

Participatory Budgeting Advisory Committee

Language Assistance Advisory Committee

CEC Staff

Language Access Plan

Artists Collective

Agency Reporting

Accessibility

Contact

Annual Reports

Newsletters


Leenda Bonilla

Leenda Bonilla is the Participatory Budgeting Coordinator for The Bronx at the NYC Civic Engagement Commission. A native New Yorker, she was raised in The Bronx and in Puerto Rico. Leenda holds a Master from the Pratt Institute in Arts/Cultural Management, and a BA from Manhattan College, Political Science/International Studies. She has completed several fellowships in leadership development from Coro NYC, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Leadership Institute & Arts Advocacy Program, NYC Parks Leadership Academy. Her creative career traversed from magazine publishing, to non-profit art/cultural management, and currently in the public sector working on community development focused on building civic engagement. She is also a visual artist and her art practice is integral to how she engages with the world. She has developed programs from extensive field research to forge creative and civically engaged collaborative art/cultural projects that implement and support community activism of the social issues affecting New York City neighborhoods.