Dawn Henning and Jaime Stein, Green Infrastructure Planning

Dawn graduated in 2005 from Columbia University with a dual major in physics andenvironmental engineering. Prior to joining Rocking the Boat, Dawn worked in both the private and non-profit sectors, using her technical skills and expertise on watershed planning and pollution to address the needs and concerns of communities. Dawn has been a dedicated member of the Bronx River Alliance for over five years and currently serves as the Co-Chair of its Ecology Team. At Rocking the Boat, she serves as the Director of the Environmental Job Skills Program where she supervises eight high school level Apprentices that work on a number of environmental restoration and monitoring projects on the Bronx River.

Jaime directs the Urban Environmental Systems Management program at Pratt Institute, a Master of Science with a curriculum at the nexus of environmental design, science and policy which graduates environmental professionals with a systems thinking approach to solid waste, energy and water quality management. Ms Stein has 11 years experience in advocating for sustainable communities, beginning as a Peace Corps volunteer in the West African nation of Burkina Faso and ranging as wide as solid waste management in biomedical research at The Wistar Institute of Philadelphia. After recently leaving Sustainable South Bronx as their Environmental Policy Analyst, Ms. Stein has focused on the creation of a professional academic certificate in Green Infrastructure at Pratt's Center for Continuing and Professional Studies. She also sits on the Steering Committee of the S.W.I.M. Coalition heading up their workforce development sub-committee. Ms. Stein's work is focused around the influence of the urban environment, both built and natural, on public health and she is particularly interested in the role environmentalists, planners and designers can play in promoting social justice.

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