William Christie Samuels is a New York City-based progressive Democrat, businessman, founder and chairman of the board of the good government group EffectiveNY and the EffectiveNY Howard Samuels Policy Center. He has recently been awarded the 2017 Center for Popular Democracy Social Justice Award. He was also a host of Effective Radio on AM 970 The Answer, a monthly, two-hour program aimed at enacting major statewide policy changes from a constitutional right to clean air and water to term limits for Albany, to a new approach to drug addiction and marijuana legalization, while educating New Yorkers on a "People's Convention."