FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO YOUR HOUSE.

A dedicated and experienced community advocate. A respected leader.

A native of Rye, New York, Candidate Eiland is no stranger to community service. He was the youngest member elected to the Board of Directors for the Port Chester Carver Center in its 65 year history, served as the Youth President for the Westchester County Council on Urban Youth, and other leadership appointments before completing high school. Upon graduation, Eiland was awarded the Hartman fellowship for Jewish communal service and a Drury College Leadership award. Candidate Eiland
went on to serve as the first and only African American delegate to the World Union of Jewish Students Congress in Jerusalem, Israel.

In 1998, Candidate Eiland was selected as a White House intern assigned to the US Department of State. While serving, Eiland assisted in the design and construction of several embassies including Brunei Dar Salaam, Kenya, Egypt, and Ethiopia. Eiland was honored by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright for his design of a memorial for the 1998 US embassy bombing victims in Nairobi, Kenya.

Candidate Eiland has worked in several arenas from health care to affordable housing finance. In 2003, Eiland served as the Minority Outreach and Development Associate for Blue Cross Blue Shield, instrumental in enrolling families in CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) having jurisdiction in over 49 counties in Pennsylvania.

Candidate Eiland later work under Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty in the DC Department of Housing and Community Development converting low income apartments into tenant owned cooperatives. Eiland moved back to New York fulltime to
establish his community projects and begin his mayoral campaign.

In 2008, Candidate Eiland created a not for profit organization in the City, The Eiland Philanthropic Organization. The organization seeks to aid at risk youth and communities in need through direct services, social programs, and prevention models. To date, the organization has been instrumental in the creation of two schools (South Africa and Washington, District of Columbia) and has proposed the creation of a public charter school taught by union teachers in the South Bronx opening fall 2010. The school will focus on educating Black and Latino young men who are deemed at risk, drop outs, and under credited.

Candidate Eiland is a member of the US Green Building Council, works as a green charrette facilitator and LEED advisor, a member of the Masonic Order, and various other social organizations. Eiland is anticipating the release of his first book that
chronicles his life as an abandoned child with no knowledge of his father’s identity and his struggle through hopelessness and despair to rise and pursue the mayoralty in New York City.

Candidate Eiland lives and will maintain campaign offices in the Eastchester section of the Bronx, is single and the eldest of seven siblings.