THe 2026 Bronx Power 100

As a formerly incarcerated person, Ronald Day is helping incarcerated and formerly incarcerated New Yorkers survive and thrive through The Fortune Society, which offers comprehensive services and advocacy for those populations. Day oversees the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy; the Center for Research, Inquiry and Social Justice; and the organization’s admissions, education, employment and transitional services programs. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani embraced a planned Fortune Society-run supportive housing project at NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi for New Yorkers leaving Rikers Island – and also appointed the organization’s previous president and CEO, Stanley Richards, as his Department of Correction commissioner.