January/February

We are thrilled to welcome Evelyn Polanco as the new Director of Human Resources at InterContinental New York Times Square, effective Monday, 1/30. While new to the hospitality industry, Evelyn has a very accomplished Human Resources career. She began her journey in 1998 as an HR Assistant Manager for Target in College Point and then in 2002 took on an HR Manager role with Flying Food Group, an inflight catering company out of Newark. In late

2004 she entered the education field as an HR Manager and then in September 2008, Evelyn moved on to the healthcare industry, where she started as a HR Manager and was later promoted to Manager of Employee and Labor Relations. In the most recent years, Evelyn has held various labor roles within the MTA, most recently as General Superintendent Support Services. Evelyn enjoys traveling and even more so enjoys eating her way thru new locations!! She also enjoys working-out and boxing regularly. Please join us in extending Evelyn a warm welcome to the team and in wishing her much success in her new role.

ABOUT HUMAN TRAFFICING TRAINING:

Human trafficking is incredibly widespread and our hotels have an important role to play in keeping our community and our hotels safe from this harm. HANYC is now partnering with Businesses Ending Slavery and Trafficking (BEST) to provide FREE human trafficking training for HANYC members and their staff.

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