Gretchen Dykstra
Gretchen Dykstra
Gretchen Dykstrawas the founding President and CEO of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation. The former Commissioner of New York City's Department of Consumer Affairs under Mayor Bloomberg, Dykstra left that post in April 2005 to head up the foundation, which raises funds and operates the memorial and museum designed to pay tribute to the victims of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center. In May of the following year Dykstra resigned the post because excessive politics...
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