# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathryn-garcia
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:04:44.352Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathryn-garcia"
name: "Kathryn Garcia"
slug: "kathryn-garcia"
description: "Kathryn A. Garcia is an American public official serving as the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. She previously served as director of state operations for the state of New York from 2021 to 2026, and as commissioner for the New York City Sanitation Department from 2014 to 2020. She was a candidate in the 2021 New York City Democratic mayoral primary, losing by 0.8 percentage points to Eric Adams."
tagline: "American government official (born 1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Kathryn_Garcia_on_the_Upper_East_Side.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.35
  momentum:             10.75268817204301
  historical:           5.366530666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/KGforNYC"
    handle:    "KGforNYC"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Garcia"
    title: "Kathryn Garcia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Garcia"
    title: "Kathryn Garcia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Garcia"
    title: "Kathryn Garcia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%AA%DA%BE%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "کیتھرین گارسیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%A7"
    title: "کترین گارسیا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn_Garcia"
    title: "Kathryn Garcia"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104787100"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump