Ross Graham

From 1965 through 1985, Graham was on the staff of New York State Senator Manfred Ohrenstein, first serving as his only staff person and then, after 1975 when he became Minority Leader, as his Chief of Staff. Between 1949 and 1965 she was a newspaper/magazine reporter/writer and spent two years traveling and working in Europe.

Graham is a member of the State Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol, originally appointed in 1988 and re-appointed in 2008 by Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith.

From 1986 through 1997, she was a member of Community Board 4 in Chelsea and Clinton (Chair of the Board in 1993 and 1994). Prior to the creation of the Hudson River Park Trust, she was Borough President Ruth Messinger's appointee to the Hudson River Park Conservancy.

She received a B.A. from Tufts University.