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
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