Our Team

 
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Rhoda Binda, Esq.

Rhoda has extensive legal experience in multiple areas including litigation, no-fault insurance, human rights, family law and real estate.

Organizations she has spent time with include the New York State Division of Human Rights, the Mantua Village Police Department, Omnitrition International, New York Life Insurance Company, Healthfirst Health Plan, ERA/Top Service Realty and multiple law firms.

Rhoda has a long and dedicated history of Community Service which includes work performed for the New York Public Interest Research Group, the New York Coalition for the Homeless, the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer, Great Strides for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Long Island Board of Realtors and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Rhoda is a member of the New York State Bar and has been recognized by the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio and the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation for her pro bono service.

She is also fluent in Spanish.

 
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Rhonda Binda, Esq.

Rhonda Binda recently served as VP Policy for Venture Smarter and Director of their Regional Smart Cities Initiatives. She has a distinguished history of public service, as Deputy Director for the U.S. Department of State’s Global Intergovernmental Affairs Division, and in the West Wing of the White House, under two administrations respectively. In between her government tours she practiced technology law with Alston & Bird.

Binda most recently returned to her hometown and served as the Executive Director of the Jamaica Business Improvement District. Under her tenure, Governor Cuomo awarded Jamaica the #1 award state-wide for downtown revitalization, Jamaica was named #1 hottest neighborhood in NYC by the Wall Street Journal and won NYC’s SBS Neighborhood Challenge Grant.

In 2016, she was Queens Chamber of Commerce’s Business Leader of the Year and named Community Leader of the Year by QCYD. Binda attended Duke and Oxford and received her JD from Georgetown.