Gretchen Dykstra (born NY August 22, 1948) was the founding President and CEO of the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum Foundation, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs under Mayor Bloomberg, and the founding president of the

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Business Improvement District (now the Alliance) throughout the 90s. Trained as a teacher, Dykstra worked at the Rockefeller Foundation, the NYC Charter Revision Commission, and the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation. She taught English in

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from 1979-1981. Dykstra currently writes full-time. Her first book, ''Pinery Boys: Songs and Songcatching in the Lumberjack Era'', (University of Wisconsin Press, 2017) was a team effort with James P. Leary, pre-eminent folklorist, to re-issue the classic ''Songs and Ballads of the Shanty Boy'' (Harvard, 1926), written by her grandfather, Franz Rickaby.online review, saying much about Gretchen Dykstra
/ref> It includes new material, an introduction by Leary, and a biography written by Dykstra. Her book ''Civic Pioneers: Local Stories of a Changing America, 1895-1915'', was released in the spring of 2019.

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