BLOATED RÉSUMÉ: Council candidate Jenifer Rajkumar touts a nonprofit that has accomplished zilch. (
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A young City Council candidate who readily boasts about her experience as founder and CEO of a local nonprofit admits her 3-year-old organization has never done anything.
“It has yet to get off the ground. It has no staff and no budget,” downtown Democratic District Leader Jenifer Rajkumar told The Post in response to questions about W-Spin Inc., which she has prominently touted in her fledgling political career.
Rajkumar, a 30-year-old Stanford University law-school grad, crows about W-Spin on her District 11 Web site and also has a Facebook page and Web site for the group.
“W-Spin’s Jenifer Rajkumar Receives a 2012 Young Woman of Achievement Award from WIN,” blared one announcement on the W-Spin site, posted after Rajkumar was lauded for her political savvy by the Women’s Information Network, a powerful DC networking group.
Another post on the Web site boasts, “W-Spin’s Jenifer Rajkumar on PBS.”
Rajkumar — named by City & State political news as one New York’s “next generation of political leaders” in its annual “40 Under 40” list — is challenging lower-Manhattan Councilwoman Margaret Chin for her seat in November.
The fresh-faced pol ran for her district-leader seat in 2011 on her law experience with Sanford Wittels & Heisler, where she “was lead counsel on cases against corporate fraud.” She also heavily promoted her role with W-Spin.
“I now am the Founder and President/CEO of the start-up non-profit W-Spin Inc., which aims to catapult women into leadership positions in governments worldwide, increasing the number of women in decision-making bodies across the globe,” Rajkumar says on her official district Web site.
“All of these opportunities gave me a wealth of valuable experience in advocating for vulnerable individuals, formulating policy, fund raising and grassroots organizing — all valuable tools that have prepared me to be your District Leader.”
W-Spin was registered as a domestic nonprofit with the state in 2010, records show.
On its Web site, W-Spin claims to have a mentoring program that “educate[s] 8 to 12 year old girls all over the world on political leadership,” as well as a program that teaches “young women from Abu Dhabi to Cairo” the story of “forgotten heroines all over the world.”
“She brought some people together to try and launch it and talked about her goals, but it never got off the ground,” said a source close to Rajkumar.
W-Spin’s site has a link that claims online contributions will soon be accepted. Rajkumar said it has not gotten any funding.
Over the weekend, she removed all references to W-Spin and the detailed description of her legal work from her district Web page.