Leading with Teranga with Anta Cissé-Green

This week, Sigalle sits down with Anta Cissé-Green, Senior Vice Chancellor & General Counsel of SUNY, the State University of New York.

As General Counsel, Anta serves as the chief legal officer to the SUNY Board of Trustees, the Chancellor, System Administration and the presidents of the state-operated campuses. Anta manages and supervises the SUNY Office of General Counsel consisting of 45 experienced higher education attorneys and oversees legal at all of SUNYs 64 campuses.

Prior to SUNY, Anta served as Associate General Counsel and Director of Legal Operations at NYU Langone Health. Anta received her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, summa cum laude, and her L.L.M. in Tax from NYU School of Law.

Anta has been awarded various accolades and honors in connection with her work in the legal profession. In addition to being named in the 2021 City & States Law Power 100, Anta was an honoree in the Crains 2019 Notable Women of Law, and named by the New York Law Journal as a "Lawyer Who Leads By Example", in recognition of her many years of commitment to providing pro bono legal services to underrepresented New Yorkers; named to the National Black Lawyers Top 100 Attorneys; and as a New York Metro Area Rising Star by SuperLawyers in the area of tax and estate planning.

Anta is an active member of her community in her roles as President of the Metropolitan Black Bar Association, the largest unified association of Black and other minority lawyers, in the New York metropolitan area.

Listen to learn the story of a lawyer who gives back to her community and strives to foster the development of young lawyers and law students.

Visit www.mbbanyc.org and https://system.suny.edu/counsel/to learn more.