Jay Hershenson is the vice president for communications and marketing and senior advisor to the president at Queens College. He served for 32 years as a CUNY vice chancellor, then senior vice chancellor for University Relations—the longest-serving vice chancellor in CUNY history—and concurrently as secretary of the Board of Trustees for 13 years. He is the chair of the Louis Armstrong House Museum Board of Trustees. Hershenson became the first elected student trustee to serve on the CUNY Board of Trustees in 1975 and was a major force behind the state law providing student representation on all public higher education boards in New York. He helped to found the University Student Senate (USS), the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), and the CUNY Citizenship Now! program for immigrants, among his many achievements. Hershenson is a Queens College “two-fer,” earning an MA in urban studies and a BA in communications, arts, and sciences from Queens College after transferring from Queensborough Community College. He was an adjunct faculty member at the Queens College and Hunter College