Roland V. Anglin serves as a director for City National Bank, headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, and is on the boards of the New Jersey Policy Perspective, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, Sustainable New Jersey, and the New Jersey Advisory Committee of the Regional Plan Association. He received his bachelor’s degree from Brooklyn College, his master’s degree from Northwestern University, and his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. He is nationally recognized for his work in the area of economic and community development, and was appointed to the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies in July 2012. Anglin came to the Cornwall Center from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where he had been a Faculty Fellow since 2000. Anglin began his academic career at Rutgers University in New Brunswick in the late 1980s. His research examined issues related to economic development and growth management. During that time, he published some of the seminal work on citizen attitudes toward sprawl development. After serving a nine-year stint at the Ford Foundation, where he ultimately served as deputy director for community and resource development, Anglin returned to academia to pursue an active research agenda and manage a number of initiatives for philanthropy, state government, and national community development organizations. He currently manages two major research evaluations for the state of New Jersey, both linked to the role of crime prevention and youth development as a precursor to economic development. Anglin’s many publications include three books: Promoting Sustainable Local and Community Economic Development (CRC Press); Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America, with colleagues (Rutgers University Press), and Resilience and Opportunity: Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast after Katrina and Rita, with colleagues (Brookings Institution Press). His current research focuses on the changing dynamics of current local and community development practice.
|
Roland Anglin
|
Mauro V. “Buzz” Baldanza is presently the Emergency Management Coordinator for the Borough of Oceanport and has served in this capacity for the last 10 years. He retired in 2010 after a 30 year career with the Oceanport Police Department, with the rank of Captain. A 43 year member of the Long Branch Fire Department, he has held line and executive officer positions. He served as Asst. Chief from 2002-2003 and Chief of Department in 2004. He is serving as one of 5 New Jersey members of the Program Steering Committee for the Coastal Storm Awareness Program with NJ Sea Grant. He has also been a consultant and researcher with the Rapid Response Institute at Monmouth University. In 2009, he was a member of a group that partnered with Monmouth University and Stevens Institute of Technology to obtain a NJ State grant that place an early warning flood system on the Shrewsbury River, consisting of five locations with either tide or full weather stations. He holds Bachelor degrees in Business Administration and Criminal Justice from Monmouth University. He is a NJ State Certified Level II Instructor and a former NJ Police Training Commission Instructor, teaching at the Monmouth County Police and Fire Academies. He has published articles in Firehouse and Fire Engineering Magazine.
|
Mauro Baldanza
|
Ana Baptista is an Assistant Professor of Professional Practice in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management. She was most recently the Director of the Energy and Environment Program at the Regional Plan Association where she oversaw a diverse portfolio of issues ranging from climate change to greenspace preservation across the New York metropolitan region. Prior to RPA, Ana was the Director of Environmental and Planning programs for the Ironbound Community Corporation for over seven years. At ICC she oversaw a wide range of environmental justice, community development and community based planning and research projects in her native Ironbound community in Newark, New Jersey. Ana grew up in the Ironbound where she was part of the environmental justice struggles that later shaped her professional and academic interests. Ana completed her Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey where she studied state level environmental justice policy implementation across the country. Prior to her doctoral research Ana was a Senior Environmental Planner for the State of Rhode Island’ Department of Environmental Management and she also served as a legislative liaison to Senator John Chafee. She received her Master’s degree from Brown University in Environmental Studies and has an undergraduate degree in Environmental & Evolutionary Biology as well as Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College. Ana was a 2013 Gustav Heningburg Civic Fellow. She is a National Environmental Leadership Fellow, a member of the Coalition for Healthy Ports and a steering committee member of the New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance. She brings to the New School community a passion for social justice and community driven change. Ana served as an adjunct faculty with The New School’s Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy from 2009 to 2014 and now serves as a full-time faculty member.
|
Ana Baptista
|
Steven R. Brechin is a professor of sociology at Rutgers and a faculty affiliate at its Climate Change Institute. He has written extensively on comparative national public opinion on global climate change as well as on the failure of mainstream sociology to engage this critical issue. His work in this area explores the context factors that shape public opinion and their possible effects on respective national and global policy and on the critical role elites must play in this issue, and his fieldwork in Belize, Central America, which large parts of the country are within a meter of sea level, examines what the country and others in the region are doing in both mitigation and adaptation; much of Belize's economy depends upon nature-based tourism and healthy ecosystems but it is also a country that has recently started extracting recoverable oil. Brechin is interested in how oil development is affecting civil society actions, public policy and public opinion in Belize regarding climate change and biodiversity conservation.
|
Steve Brechin
|
Stéphane Hallegatte is senior economist with the World Bank, in the office of the chief economist of the Climate Change Group. His work includes green growth and climate change mitigation strategies, urban economics, and climate change adaptation and disaster risk management. He is lead author of the IPCC for its fifth assessment report. He also co-led the World Bank report “Inclusive Green Growth” in 2012, and published dozen of articles and several books, including “Natural disasters and climate change – an economic perspective.” He is now co-leading a World Bank on "Climate Change and Poverty," due in the fall of 2015. Stephane Hallegatte holds an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique and a PhD in economics from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
|
Stéphane Hallegatte
|
Robin Leichenko is Professor of Geography at Rutgers University and co-Director of the Rutgers Climate Institute. Her current research examines climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in U.S. cities and coastal regions. Leichenko served as a review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report and as a contributing author on the IPCC Special Report on Extreme Events. Leichenko has authored or co-authored two books and more than 60 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. Her book, Environmental Change and Globalization: Double Exposures (2008, Oxford University Press), won the Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Contribution from the Association of American Geographers.
|
Robin Leichenko
|
Sabrina McCormick is a sociologist and filmmaker who investigates how to motivate climate mitigation and adaptation. Dr. McCormick was a Producer for Showtime series, The Years of Living Dangerously, that won the Emmy for Best Documentary Series in 2014. McCormick has been a Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency. She is the author of two books, and over forty articles and book chapters. Dr. McCormick is currently Associate Professor in the Environmental and Occupational Health Department in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.
|
Sabrina McCormick
|
Karen O’Brien is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the University of Oslo, Norway. Her research has focused on climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation and the implications for human security, as well as on the links between global environmental change and globalization. Her current research explores adaptation as a social, cultural and human process, the relationships between belief system flexibility and adaptive capacity, and the values and visions of youth towards the future in a changing climate. She is especially interested in the role of consciousness and collaborative power in transformation processes, on the relationship between personal, cultural, and systems transformations, and on the implications of quantum social theory for climate change responses. She is on the Scientific Committee for Future Earth, and has participated in the IPCC Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports, as well as the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX). Her most recent book is on the Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change.
|
Karen O'Brien |
Karen M. O’Neill studies how policies about land and water affect government power, the status of experts, and the well-being of various social groups. Her work centers on headwater areas, river flood control, and coastal storm vulnerability. Other topics include international conservation, risk preparedness and response, and the social experience of space and place. Karen is working on a co-edited book considering whether Hurricane Sandy has transformed the ways coastal institutions are planning for the climate future. |
Karen O'Neill
|
Lori Peek is Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Disaster and Risk Analysis at Colorado State University. She is currently involved in several research projects, including a participatory project on children’s recovery after the Joplin tornado, the Slave Lake wildfires, and the High River floods; a five-year project on the potential mental and physical health effects of the BP Oil Spill on children; a study of risk perception and evacuation behavior in hurricane-prone communities along the U.S. Gulf and Atlantic Coasts; a global examination of earthquake risk reduction activities; and a state-wide survey of disaster preparedness among childcare providers in Colorado. She is the co-founder of the SHOREline youth empowerment program and co-director of the Youth Creating Disaster Recovery project. She has published widely on the sociology of disasters and is author of the award-winning book Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11, co-author of Children of Katrina, and co-editor of Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora. Dr. Peek received the Distinguished Book Award from the Midwest Sociological Society in 2012 and the Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity in 2013. In 2009, the American Sociological Association Section on Children and Youth honored her with its Early Career Award for Outstanding Scholarship. She has also been named Professor of the Year and has received the Best Teacher Award and the Excellence in Teaching Award from Colorado State University.
|
Lori Peek
|
Damaris Reyes, Executive Director, has been with GOLES since 2000, is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side, and has been involved in community organizing and housing issues both locally and nationally for more than 15 years. She is the chair of LES Ready, a recovery and disaster network with 40 organizational members, and a member of the NY Rising committee, created by the Governor's office to create resiliency initiatives. Reyes currently sits on the Center for Neighborhood Leadership advisory board and on Community Board 3's first ever Public Housing Committee; its Land Use, Zoning & Housing Committee; and its Waterfront Taskforce, charged with the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project, which was recently awarded $335 million to design flood protections along the East River. A regular public speaker around public housing and resiliency, she has received numerous honors for her work, including the 2006 New York Women’s Foundation’s Neighborhood Leadership Award and the 2009 Jane Jacobs Medal from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Municipal Arts Society.
|
Damaris Reyes |
Tom Rudel is a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Human Ecology and Sociology at Rutgers University. He studies the social dimensions of landscape changes in the Americas, both North and South. His research has focused on metropolitan expansion in the United States and forest losses in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
|
Tom Rudel
|
Adelle Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the College of The Bahamas. Her research explores the vulnerability of small island states to the impacts of climate change and options available for industries and communities to adapt. Thomas is a contributing author to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report and her publications also appear in academic journals such as Geography Compass and International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management. She is the Chairperson of the Public Education and Outreach Subcommittee of the National Climate Change Committee of The Bahamas as well as the founder of the Climate Change Initiative at the College of The Bahamas.
|
Adelle Thomas
|