MANAGING INCREASING HEAVY RAINFALL + CO-Facilitators
WORKING GROUP 1: MANAGING INCREASING HEAVY RAINFALL
How can we shift NYC’s policies and priorities to create a comprehensive plan to prepare for increasing rainfall?
Address gaps in infrastructure and risk management to protect from and prepare New Yorkers for more intense precipitation.
Robert Freudenberg
Vice President, Energy & Environment, Regional Plan Association (RPA)
Alan Cohn
Senior Policy & Science Advisor, New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
MANAGING INCREASING HEAVY RAINFALL: PARTICIPANTS
Akemi Sato Matsumoto
Director of Programs, Design Trust for Public Space
ADAM BERKOWITZ
Department of Transportation (DOT)
Anastasia Yankopoulos
New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM)
Brendan Pillar
Department of City Planning (DCP)
Brian Kempf
BRIC Team Lead, Federal Emergency Management Agency – Region 2
Caleb Richard Smith
Resiliency Coordinator, WE ACT for Environmental Justice
China Copperstone
Research Analyst, We Stay/Nos Quedamos
Daniel Avery
Director of Policy, The Real Estate Board of New York
Danny Pearlstein
Policy & Communications Director, Riders Alliance
Despo Thoma
Senior Associate, Resilience, SCAPE Landscape Architecture
Elizabeth McQuade
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA)
Eric W. Sanderson
Vice President for Urban Conservation, New York Botanical Garden
Franco Montalto
Professor at Drexel, Drexel University
President at eDD, eDesign Dynamics
Co-chair flooding working group at NPCC4, NPCC4
Helena durst
Principal, The Durst Organization
Jessica Colon
Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)
Joseph Olewnicki
Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations (HRO)
Julie Stein
Stormwater Business Class Director, HDR
Kaled alamarie
Individual
Kelly McKinney
AVP, Emergency Management+Enterprise Resilience, NYU Langone Health
Kelly Vilar
CEO, Staten Island Urban Center
Matthijs Bouw
Founding Principal, One Architecture
Melissa Enoch
Acting Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Environmental Planning and Analysis (BEPA), NYC Environmental Protection (DEP)
Olaitan Femi-Falade
Consultant, Climate and Health Equity Foundation
Peter Mattingly
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Robert Holub
Department of Buildings (DOB)
Russ Dudley
Regional Stormwater Leader, Arcadis
Sara Donatich
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (PARKS)
Sarah Charlop-Powers
Executive Director, Natural Areas Conservancy
Steve Carrea
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
Sherrise Palomino
Individual
Shino Tanikawa
Executive Director, NYC Soil & Water Conservation District
Sumiko Neary
Individual
Vincent Lee
Principal, Arup
HOUSING MOBILITY + CO-Facilitators
WORKING GROUP 2: HOUSING MOBILITY
What does an equitable buyout program look like for New York City?
Inform the development of the City’s Housing Mobility & Land Acquisition Program.
Christie Peale
CEO, Executive Director, Center for NYC Neighborhoods (CNYCN)
Elizabeth Greenstein
Chief of Staff, Mayor’s Office of Housing Recovery Operations (HRO)
HOUSING MOBILITY: PARTICIPANTS
Aisha Balogun
Special Projects Associate, Housing Solutions Lab at NYU Furman Center
Amy Chan
New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal (NYS HCR)
Amy Chester
Managing Director, Rebuild by Design
Annie Stefanski
Deputy Director, Neighborhood Restore HDFC
Anthony Coker
Program Manager, Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Bo Chung
Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)
Britney Dixon
Coalition Coordinator and Grant Administrator, Far Rockaway Arverne Nonprofit Coalition
Debra Ack
Special Project Coordinator, East New York Community Land Trust & Justice For The Jewel Streets Coalition
Desiree Thomas
Vice President/Director of Climate Finance, TruFund Financial Services
Dmitri Johnson
Climate Adaptation Practitioner, TNC Climate Adaptation Team
Jacob Ahola
New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM)
Joseph Tirone
Real Estate Team Leader, Joe Tirone Team, Compass
Kate Boicourt
Director, Climate Resilient Coasts and Watersheds, Environmental Defense Fund
Kelly Leilani Main
Executive Director, Buy-In Community Planning
Lucy Cummings
Director, Faith Sector Resilience, New York Disaster Interfaith Services (NYDIS)
Mallory Rutigliano
Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
Michael Marrella
Department of City Planning (NYC DCP)
Michael Sandler
Department of Housing Preservation & Development (NYC HPD)
Sangu Iyer
Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP)
Tallant Burley
Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)
Thaddeus Pawlowski
Managing Director, Columbia University, Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes
Tyler Taba
Director of Resilience, Waterfront Alliance
Everyone has a role to play + CO-Facilitators
WORKING GROUP 3: EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY
How can we build capacity among communities, the private sector, and CBO’s to share responsibility of managing increased heavy rainfall?
Every drop counts. Build out an education and communications campaign to build the capacities of communities, the private sector, CBO’s, local nonprofits, and other agencies to do their part in managing increasing heavy rainfall.
Tonya Gayle
Executive Director, Green City Force
Hayley Elszasz
Climate Science Advisor, Mayor’s Office of Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)
EVERYONE HAS A ROLE TO PLAY: PARTICIPANTS
Chelsea Cawley
Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
Daniela Sancu
Department of Small Business Services (SBS)
Frank Blancero
Individual
Gideon Davidson
Member, Concord Group, JM Kaplan Fund
Helen Wiley
Disaster Preparedness Program Director, SBP
Hope Sutherland
Project Coordinator, National Center for Disaster Preparedness, Columbia Climate School
James Garcia
NYC Service
Jill Cornell
New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM)
JOHANNA LAWTON
Project Manager, Rebuild by Design
Julia Eiferman
Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ)
Katherin Sibel
Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (DOHMH)
LOT LOCHER
International Director for Climate, One Architecture
MICHAEL ROBERSON
Director ITP Challenge, Clean Energy Leadership Institute (CELI)
Adjunct Professor, The New School University-Eugene Lang College
Nikki Tourigny
Business Development Manager, The HOPE Program
Pamela Pettyjohn
President and Founder, Coney Island Beautification Project, Inc.
Rona Taylor
Executive Director, Central x South East Brooklyn CDC
Sarah Nielson
New York City Department of Parks & Recreation (PARKS)
Saylor Pochan
Cochair, Surfrider Foundation NYC
Shivali Gowda
Resilience Fellow, Enterprise Community Partners