2021 Spirit of the City award

The Center for an Urban Future Honored Steven Rubenstein and Melva Miller

The Center for an Urban Future honored Association for a Better New York (ABNY) Chair Steven Rubenstein and CEO Melva Miller with the 2021 Spirit of the City award for their tireless work to get a fair and accurate Census 2020 count for New York. ABNY gathered an unprecedented coalition to “Get Out the Count” and RUBENSTEIN ran a pro bono PR agency to help community-based organizations with messaging around the Census.

ABNY CEO Melva Miller and Steven Rubenstein
Melva Miller and Steven Rubenstein