Rhonda-Lee Davis joined the staff at CISC as an intern in 2011. After completing her undergraduate studies at Lafayette College, where she earned her BA in International Affairs, Rhonda-Lee discovered a passion for urban planning and community development. She is currently pursuing her M.A. in Urban Planning at Hunter College....
Carina has an MA in International Affairs with a focus on Cities and Urbanization from the New School University, where her research focused on ecological solutions to economic, social, and environmental challenges that cities face, in both the developed and developing world. She has a BA in International Affairs from the...
Dr. Waldman is the leading researcher on the City by the Coast Core Program Area. He is professor of biology at Queens College, City University of New York. Prior to this appointment in 2004, he was employed for 20 years by the Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research. He received his Ph.D. in 1986...
Dr. William Solecki is Director, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities (CISC), and professor in the Department of Geography at Hunter College – CUNY. His research interests include urban environmental change, and climate impacts and adaptation. He has served on several U.S. National Research Council committees including...
Lesley Patrick joined the Institute as the program manager in 2007. She focuses on program development, fundraising and grant writing, and serves as project manager to CISC research projects. She was a member of the Science Planning Team of the New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC), co-lead of the statewide Coastal...
Peter Marcotullio is Distinguished Lecturer at Hunter College (2007 – present), City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches in the Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, the Department of Geography and in the CUNY Macaulay Honors College. His research interests include urban sustainable development, urban...
Dylan Gauthier joined the Institute as Media Coordinator in late 2010. Dylan is a media artist, designer and educator and has worked as media consultant, graphic, web and video designer and logistical engineer for non-profit and arts organizations and social justice groups in New York and abroad, and has collaborated...
Simon Gruber is an environmental planning and communications consultant specializing in water resources planning and protection, energy efficiency, high performance building and site design, and sustainable infrastructure. Since 1986 he’s worked with local and county government, non-profit organizations, and businesses...
Dr. Frei, the Deputy Director of CISC, is an associate professor in the Geography Department at Hunter College, CUNY. After receiving his Ph.D. from Department of Geography at Rutgers University in 1997, he spent four years at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which is part of the Cooperative Institute for...
