SAM RIVERA

Executive Director of OnPoint NYC

USA

Sam Rivera has 31 years of progressive experience in social services. His primary focus of expertise lies in Criminal Justice/Reentry, HIV/AIDS, Harm Reduction, Addiction/Recovery, and Mental Health.  

He currently serves as the Executive Director of OnPoint NYC, a long-standing harm reduction organization that provides services to active drug users and sex workers in Northern Manhattan and The South Bronx, many of whom are low-income or homeless as well as of color and LGBTQ. As an Afro-Taino, he brings to this role his several decades of cutting-edge service provision experience and a commitment to social justice. 

He has dedicated his professional career to ameliorating the harms associated with the War on Drug Users, racism/sexism, structural inequality, and mass incarceration and will continue to work to end systemic as well as systematic barriers to populations that are most vulnerable.

Due to his dedication to this work, Sam Rivera was recently recognized as one of Time100’s Most Influential People of 2023.

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