<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Please see the NPR article below that features comments by Gotham\u2019s very own, 2023 Networker of the Year, <a href="https://www.gothamnetworking.com/CrystiFarra">Crysti D. Farra, Esq</a>.<br><div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">Crysti is a member of Gotham\u2019s Membership Committee, Co-Chairs the Manhattan Dinner Group and is also a loyal member of both the LI Women\u2019s Group and the LI Legal Group!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">In her spare time, Crysti runs her own Law Firm in Lido Beach (<a href="https://www.cdfarra.com/">https://www.cdfarra.com/</a>) with a concentration in Social Security Disability & Supplemental Security Income. She works tirelessly to help navigate the complexities of the Social Security Administration while helping to achieve favorable outcomes for her clients. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">Crysti also diligently provides her expertise, time and exemplary service to pro bono cases for which she was recently awarded recognition from the Nassau Suffolk Law Service, the Suffolk County Pro Bono Foundation and the Suffolk County Bar Association!</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">I\u2019ve heard Crysti mention that she is hopeful in the improvements the recently appointed Commissioner plans to put in place but, until then, we should all be so lucky to have an advocate in our corner such as <a href="https://www.gothamnetworking.com/CrystiFarra">Crysti D. 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