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The Mamdani patronage machine has hired the wife of lefty actress Cynthia Nixon as an educrat making $203,500 a year, The Post has learned.
Christine Marinoni is working as the chief of mass engagement at the Family and Community Empowerment (FACE) office at the Department of Education, according to a well-placed DOE source.
The DOE source said this was Mamdani’s reward to the former “Sex and the City” star after she endorsed him during the mayoral primary.
Nixon held a fundraiser for Mamdani in March 2025 and raised over $200,000 for the socialist mayoral upstart.
“So thrilled to host a fundraiser for the incredible Zohran Mamdani whose clear message & ambitious plan for a more affordable NYC is exactly what we need right now,” she posted on Instagram at the time beside a picture of her and Mamdani standing together grinning ear to ear.
The hire is already drawing sharp comparisons to New York’s most notorious political machine.
“It’s painfully fitting that inside Tweed Courthouse, a DSA machine reminiscent of Tammany Hall is handing taxpayer-funded jobs to the well-connected spouses of multimillionaire celebrities,” another source, a City Hall insider, said.
When reached for comment, Nixon denied that her wife was rehired by the DOE for political reasons, and declined to speak further. Marinoni could not be reached for comment.
Marinoni previously worked as special assistant to the chancellor during the de Blasio administration and made $131,708, according to public data.
Nixon, who ran for governor in 2018 and was endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, is a longtime leftist agitator.
“We have two different education systems in our state — one that sends wealthy white children to college, and another that sends poor children of color to prison,” she said during her failed gubernatorial campaign.
She has likened ICE to a terrorist organization and called for the agency to be abolished.
Nixon met Marinoni through her work with the Alliance for Quality Education — a left-wing education outfit that opposes gifted and talented programs. Marinoni once served as the outfit’s NYC director, and Nixon was its spokesperson for 17 years.
Zakiyah Ansari, an AQE official who once praised cop killer Assata Shakur — called for former Mayor Eric Adams to dismantle G&T in elementary schools.
“We believe every child is a gifted child, every child is a talented child, we have to have people as angry about taking away one program that impacts a few people and be more upset about the Black and brown kids who haven’t had access to excellent education,” Ansari told NBC News in 2021.
Also back at the DOE is Sadye Campoamor, who began serving as the agency’s chief of external affairs in March, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Campoamor faced controversy when she last worked for the DOE in 2019, when she allegedly sent an email from her work account encouraging DOE employees to attend a political rally for former embattled NYC schools chief Richard Carranza.
“Christine is a longtime public servant, community organizer, and education advocate—precisely the experience and commitment our public schools need in leadership… Sadye is likewise a longtime public servant, with invaluable knowledge of our city’s education system,” a DOE spokesperson told The Post in a statement.
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