Manhattan College Hosts NYC Sustainability Panel on the Eve of Mayoral Election

On Nov. 4, prominent community-based
environmental activists will deliberate on New York City Sustainability
Priorities: What should the Next Mayor Do?

The Manhattan
College Center for Urban Resilience and Environmental Sustainability
(CURES) will host a panel discussion New
York City Sustainability Priorities: What Should the Next Mayor Do? on
Monday, Nov.
4.

Taking
place on the eve of the mayoral election, the event will focus on
sustainability priorities in New York City. The featured speakers include many
prominent community-based environmental activists:

·     
Jessica
Haller of Climate Reality Project is a sustainability
champion and entrepreneur who, in her varied career, has started a business
with a NASA climate scientist and worked at Major League Baseball on data
strategy. She is a LEED Accredited Professional with the U.S. Green Building
Council and former director of the Jewish Climate Change Campaign.

·      Emily
Nobel Maxwell is the first-ever director of the Nature Conservancy’s
new Urban Conservation Program, where she helps develop and lead the
Conservancy’s initiatives in New York City and other New York urban areas. Previously,
Maxwell led a community greening initiative in Philadelphia, and then became
the director of the Catalyst Program for the New York City Partnership for
Parks.

·      Dart
Westphal, past president of the Bronx
Council on Environmental Quality, is a senior associate with the Support Center
for Nonprofit Management. He built playgrounds and gardens for the South Bronx
Open Space Task Force before directing the West Tremont/Kingsbridge
Neighborhood Preservation Office of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation
& Development.

·     
Paul
Steely White is the executive director of Transportation
Alternatives, a nonprofit advocacy group at the center of New York City’s bike lane
and public space boom. White joined Transportation Alternatives in 2004 after
seven years as projects director for the New York City-based Institute for
Transportation and Development Policy. 

The Nov. 4 CURES
event will start at 4 p.m. in Hayden Hall, room 100, and is open to the public.
Please call (718) 862-7252 or email jeffrey.myers@manhattan.edu with questions about the
event.

CURES launched in
2012 as a way to further promote the importance of urban sustainability and
environmental justice within the academic community. Read more about CURES at manhattan.edu.

About Manhattan College:

Manhattan College is located at West 242nd Street near Broadway in the
Riverdale section of the Bronx, one mile from the Westchester County line and
accessible by MTA subway line No. 1. For directions to the campus,
visit www.manhattan.edu.



Founded in 1853, Manhattan College is an independent, Lasallian Catholic,
coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major
programs of undergraduate study in the areas of arts, business, education and
health, engineering and science, along with continuing and professional
studies, and a graduate division. For more information about Manhattan College,
visit www.manhattan.edu. 

Press Contact:

Liz Connolly Bauman

Director of Communications

email: public_relations@manhattan.edu