Bill Batson is a writer, artist and civic leader. The author and Illustrator of the Nyack Sketch Log on http://nyacknewsandviews.com has published over 300 columns since 2011. Bill is the manager and artist in residence at the Nyack Farmers Market and a communications consultant, representing various Hudson Valley clients.
Bill served as founding steering committee member for the Rockland People’s Panel on Policing, a Trustee of Oak Hill Cemetery, the incoming President of the Mount Moor Cemetery Association, and a lifetime member of the Historical Society of the Nyacks. Mr. Batson chaired the Nyack Commemoration Committee, a group that placed a Toni Morrison Bench by the Road monument in Memorial Park.
Bill co-founded Nyack Mask Makers, a crowd-sourced effort that recruited 600 volunteers and donors to make and distribute over 15,000 free reusable cloth masks to over 50 public and private civic institutions during the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bill was inducted into the Rockland County Hall Civil Rights Hall of Fame.