Committees

New York

• Co-Chair

  Jee Mee Kim-Diaz

  City Executive for NYC Region, Arcadis

• Co-Chair

  Blair Duncan

  President & Chief Executive Officer, Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone

• Ellen Baer

  Economic Development Advisor

• Andrew Bata

  Regional Manager- North America, UITP (International Association of Public Transport)

• Elisabeth (Beth) Bernitt

  Senior Vice President & Buildings + Places Business Lead, New York Metro, AECOM

• Robert Billingsley

  Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield

• Quentin Brathwaite

  Senior Vice President, Techno Consult Inc.

• Vishaan Chakrabarti

  Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism

• Linda Cox

  Bronx River Alliance, NYC Dept of Park and Recreation

• James D'Andrea

  General Counsel , Rise Light & Power

• Michelle de la Uz

  Executive Director, Fifth Avenue Committee

• Bryan Dorsey

  Director of Operations, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism

• Rachel Fee

  Executive Director, New York Housing Conference

• Adam Freed

  Principal of Sustainability, Bloomberg Associates

• Rosalie Genevro

  Executive Director, Architectural League of New York

• Ali Goldfarb

  New York Field Operations Manager, The Trust for Public Land

• Jonathan Goldstick

  Senior Director of Waterfront and Marine, Langan

• Susan Gottlieb

• Maxine Griffith

  Senior Advisor to the President and Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University

• Kei Hayashi

  Partner, BJH Advisors LLC

• Sam Hersh

  Revel Transit

• Andrew Herz

  Partner, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler

• David Hoffman

  Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield

• Kerry Hughes

  Senior Vice President, Business Banking Sales Manager, PNC Bank

• Daniel Kaplan

  Senior Principal, FXCollaborative

• Rebecca Karp

  Principal, Karp Strategies

• Rich Kassel

  Partner, AJW

• James Korein

  Chief Executive Officer, Omnispective Management Corp.

• Seth Kramer

  Real Estate Associate, Goldman Sachs

• Lindsay Kryzak

  Founder, Clinton Street Strategies

• Justin Lapatine

  Partner, Global Strategy Group

• Jill Lerner

  Principal, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC

• Trent Lethco

  Principal, ARUP

• Juanita Lewis

  Hudson Valley Organizing Director, Community Voices Heard

• Jose Ortiz, Jr.

  Vice President, Public Sector Innovation & External Affairs, Pursuit

• Larisa Ortiz

  Principal, Larisa Ortiz Associates

• Nicholas Martin

  Senior Vice President, Head of Development and Business Strategy, Rudin Management

• Sanjay Mody

  Special Counsel, Windels, Marx, Lane & Mittendorf, LLP

• Rob Pirani

  Director of Harbor Estuary Program, Hudson River Foundation

• Clint Plummer

  Chief Executive Officer, Ravenswood Generating Station

• Brent Reynolds

  Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, Nolan Partners International

• Wendy Rowden

  President, Building for the Arts

• Lynne Sagalyn

  Earle W. Kazis and Benjamin Schore Professor Emerita of Real Estate, Columbia University

• Peggy Shepard

  Executive Director, WE ACT for Environmental Justice

• H. Claude Shostal

  Former President, Regional Plan Association

• David Siscovick

  Senior Vice President for Research, New York Academy of Medicine

• Marsha Smith

  Chief Financial Officer, Siemens USA

• George Stonbely

  Chairman, Spectacular Ventures

• Carter Strickland

  Chief Sustainability Officer, State University of New York

• Shabazz Stuart

  Founder and CEO, Oonee

• Marilyn Taylor

  Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Former Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Design

• Travis Terry

  CEO, Immortal Strategies

• Graham Trelstad

  Vice President/Senior Technical Manager, WSP

• Lauren Tsuboyama

  Senior Vice President, BerlinRosen

• Shiva Viswanathan

  Senior Managing Director & Co-Head of US Acquisitions, Northwood Investors LLC

• Donna Walcavage

  Principal Landscape Architect, Stantec Consulting

• Christopher Walters

  Rezoning Technical Assistance Coordinator, Association for Neighborhood Housing and Development

• David Garten

  Senior Advisor, RXR and CEO, Red Oak Street LLC

• Ana Rua

  Director External Affairs, East Area at Crown Castle

• Ernest Tollerson

  Chair, Riverkeeper

New Jersey

• Co-Chair

  Jun Choi

  Chief Executive Officer, Menlo Realty Ventures

• Co-Chair

  Paul Josephson

  Partner, Duane Morris

• Co-Chair

  Kay LiCausi

  President & Chief Executive Officer, Hoboken Strategy Group

• Joseph Barile

  Vice President, Head of Real Estate and Facilities, Audible

• William Best

  Senior Vice President, Territory Manager, PNC Bank

• Eugenie Birch

  Lawrence C. Nussdorf Chair of Urban Research and Education, University of Pennsylvania School of Design

• Anthony Borelli

  Vice President of Planning and Development, Edison Properties LLC

• Fred Brody

  President, Brody Business Development LLC

• Tom Byrne

  President, Byrne Asset Management, LLC

• Nicholas Chiaravalloti

  Vice President for External Affairs and Senior Counsel to the President, Hudson County Community College

• Cesar J. Claro

  Principal, Claro Ventures

• Arnold Cohen

  Policy Coordinator, Housing and Community Development Network of New Jersey

• Chris Colley

  Project Director, Topology

• Sara Cullinane, Esq

  Director, Make the Road New Jersey

• Stephen Dilts

  Senior Vice President, HNTB Corporation

• Samuel Donelson

  Senior Vice President, AECOM

• Kevin Drennan

  Managing Director, Mercury Public Affairs LLC

• Caroline Ehrlich

  Executive Director, Woodbridge Redevelopment Agency

• Julia Fahl

  Director, Archer Public Affairs

• Joseph Fiordaliso

  Chief Executive Officer, NorthStar Strategies

• Sargent Gardiner

  Partner, Robert A. M. Stern Architects

• Robert Goldsmith

  Partner, Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis

• Andrei Greenawalt

  Head of Public Policy, Via

• Linda Harrison

  Director & Chief Executive Officer, The Newark Museum of Art

• Patrick Higgins

  Chief Investment Officer at Patrinely Group, LLC

• Deborah Hoffman

  Director, Passaic County Department of Economic Development

• James Johnson

  Chief Operating Officer, Trinity Church Wall Street

• Barbara Kauffman

  Corporate Relations Director, NJIT Martin Tuchman School of Management

• Gerald Keenan

  President, New Jersey Alliance for Action

• Dan Kennedy, MCRP, PP

  CEO, NAIOP

• Jeff Kolakowski

  Chief Executive Officer, New Jersey Builders Association

• Walter Lane

  Director, Office of Planning, Policy and Economic Development, Somerset County

• Susan Lederman

  Professor Emerita, Kean University

• Jose Lozano

  Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer, Hackensack Meridian Health

• Joseph Maraziti

  Partner, Maraziti Falcon, LLP

• Anthony Marchetta

  Former Executive Director, ALM Consulting

• Theresa Marshall

  ADVENTUS II, Inc.

• Courtenay Mercer

  Principal, Mercer Planning Associates

• Michael Meyer

  Director of Development, Hugo Neu Corporation

• Linda Morgan

  Vice President of Project Partnerships & External Affairs, RBH Group

• Christina PioCosta-Lahue

  President, Vivaria Ecologics; CEO, Rensselaer Commercial Properties

• Jay Redd

  Managing Director, Stono Public Affairs

• Ziad Shehady

  Township Administrator, Chatham Township

• Monica Slater Stokes

  Managing Director of Corporate & Government Affairs, United Airlines

• Roger Smith

  Design Director, Gensler

• Darius Sollohub

  Director, NJ School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology

• Thomas Stanton

  Managing Director, JLL

• Reuben Teague

  Director of Impact Investing, Prudential Financial

• Richard Thigpen

  Senior Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, PSE&G

• Peter Waldt

  Director, Commercial Planning & Development; Managing Director, Advisory Services, WSP USA

• Christopher Watson

  Director of Planning, Murphy Schiller & Wilkes

Connecticut

• Mark Barnhart

  Economic Development Director, Town of Fairfield

• Ralph Blessing

  Land Use Bureau Chief, City of Stamford

• Mendi Blue-Paca

  Chief Community Impact Officer, Fairfield County's Community Foundation

• Clifford Brammer

  Assistant City Planner, Waterbury, CT

• Sara Bronin

  Lawyer; Architect; Chair of Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

• Laura Brown

  Executive Director of City Plan, City of New Haven

• Ross Burkhart

  Retired President & CEO, Ross Burkhardt

• Michael Cacace

  Senior Partner, Cacace, Tusch & Santagata

• Jennifer Carrier

  Associate Vice President, HNTB Corporation

• Jessica Casey

  Chief of Community and Economic Development, City of Norwalk

• Aimee Chambers

• Bill Coleman

  City of Bridgeport Office of Planning and Economic Development

• Arthur Collins

  President, Collins Enterprises

• Michael Critelli

  Chief Executive Officer, MoveFlux

• Ted Ferrarone

  Co-President, Building & Land Technology

• John Freeman

  General Counsel, Harbor Point Stamford

• Celeste Frye

  Chief Executive Officer & Principal, Public Works Partners

• Alli Ganim

  Program Associate, Fairfield County's Community Foundation

• Samuel Gardner

  Principal, Gregg Wies & Gardner Architects

• Sean Ghio

  Policy Director, Partnership for Strong Communities

• Kiley Gosselin

  Executive Director, Partnership for Strong Communities

• Lynn Haig

  Planning Director, City of Bridgeport

• Ryan Harvey

  Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Ashforth Company

• Erin Howard

  Director of Economic Development, City of Hartford

• Juanita James

  Former President & CEO, FCCF

• Deirdre Kamlani

• Evonne Klein

  Former first selectman, leader of CT Coalition to End Homelessness

• Steve Kleppin

  Director, Planning and Zoning, Norwalk

• Tom Klin

  Managing Principal, GHD

• Bob Knight

  Chief Operating Officer, Harrison Edwards

• Alex Knopp

  President, Norwalk Public Library

• Pam Koprowski

  Principal, Cardinale Associates

• Philip Kuchma

  President, Kuchma Corporation

• Edward Lavernoich

  President, Bridgeport OPED

• Kayleigh Lombardi

  Policy Analyst, Partnership for Strong Communities

• Barbara Lopez

  Director, Make the Road CT

• Petra Messick

  Director, Gateway Program Planning, Amtrak

• Matthew Nemerson

  Vice President Corporate Development, Budderfly Inc

• Robert Nerney

  Department of Planning, Waterbury Connecticut

• Julian Pierce

  Director, Economic Opportunity, Fairfield County’s Community Foundation

• Michael Piscitelli

  Interim Economic Development Administrator, City of New Haven

• Marianne Pollak

  League of Women Voters

• Patricia Rattray

  Patricia Rattray Real Estate at William Pitt Sotheby's

• Rich Redniss

  Principal Planner, Redniss & Mead Inc.

• Terry Reilly

  Director of Outreach & Enrollment Services - Stamford, University of Connecticut

• David Rich

  Executive Director, Supportive Housing Works

• Alec Slatky

  Director of Public and Government Affairs, AAA Northeast

• Christie Stewart

  Director, Fairfield County's Center for Housing Opportunity

• Robert Stromsted

  Chief Development Officer, HNTB

• Caroline Vary

  Managing Director, Asset Management, Jonathan Rose Companies

• LaToya Wilson

  Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

• Mara Winokur

  Executive Director, Urban Land Institute

• Aicha Woods

  Director, Fairfield County's Center for Housing