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Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center

Join us as BWRC, with the generous support of Con Edison, inaugurates an Evening Series on Climate and the Environment.

New York City College of Technology, Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Within a week last September, two different, but possibly intersecting hubs were introduced in New York City. Con Edison broke ground on its Clean Energy Hub in Brooklyn, and the City University of New York and the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance introduced their NYC Climate Justice Hub. Join us and learn how these Hubs will work to promote a cleaner and more just environment for the communities along the Brooklyn waterfront and beyond. * If you wish to join us via Zoom, please use this link to register:<a href="https:// https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W4AYxmIhQiuPlkoCkQqdjw" title="https:// https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W4AYxmIhQiuPlkoCkQqdjw" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W4AYxmIhQiuPlkoCkQqdjw</a> <h4>Our speakers:</h4>

Bobby Kennedy is a project manager for Con Edison of New York where he is responsible for overseeing a $1.2 billion clean energy infrastructure portfolio. His primary focus is on advancing the company's commitment to constructing a resilient grid that will deliver 100 percent clean energy by 2040. Notable among the clean energy projects in his portfolio is the Brooklyn Clean Energy Hub, an $810 million electric substation in Vinegar Hill, Brooklyn. This hub will be able to accommodate up to 1.5 megawatts of offshore wind generation, sufficient to power approximately 750,000 homes. It will also address a reliability need in the Brownsville area of Brooklyn. Moreover, the Brooklyn Clean Energy Hub is anticipated to generate over 500 skilled union jobs in Brooklyn.Kennedy also leads a $36 million clean energy interconnection project in Long Island City, designed to accommodate 1,250 megawatts of clean hydroelectric energy from Quebec, Canada, enough to power approximately 625,000 homes. In 2023, he and his team successfully completed the firm's $275 million Queens Reliably Clean City Project—a 300-megawatt clean energy power line from upstate New York, replacing a fossil fuel generation station in Astoria, Queens. In 2023, he was recognized by City &amp; State NY Magazine as one of the Top 50 “Above &amp; Beyond Innovators” in the State for his commitment to clean energy.Kennedy holds a Bachelor of Science in organizational management from Manhattan College and is an MBA candidate at NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Beyond his professional and personal pursuits, Kennedy is an advocate for criminal justice reform and actively supports the Innocence Project—a non-profit legal clinic dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted individuals through DNA testing. Additionally, he champions the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice, a non-profit organization advocating for laws that protect society without penalizing poverty, mental illness, or underlying substance abuse.

Michael Menser is the Co-Director of the NYC Climate Justice Hub. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Urban Sustainability Program at Brooklyn College. He is also the Associate Director of Public Engagement for the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. He teaches Philosophy and Urban Sustainability Studies at Brooklyn College, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Community Ownership and Workplace Democracy at the CUNY School for Labor and Urban Studies. His main areas of research are participatory democracy and climate justice with a focus on participatory governance, economic democracy, and energy democracy. He is a member of the Advisory Committee to the NY State Legislative Commission on the Future of the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and was the founding Board Chair of the Participatory Budgeting Project. He is the author of Democratizing Public Services, co-authored with Anne Le Strat, We Decide! Theories and Cases in Participatory Democracy, and is a contributor to Prospects for Resilience: Insights from New York City’s Jamaica Bay. He is a member of the PSC-CUNY’s Environmental Justice Working Group.

Tonya Gayle is the Executive Director of Green City Force (GCF). Prior to this, she led GCF’s development team from July 2014 to September 2020. She is a board member of The Corps Network focused on national service and Environmental Advocates of NY focused on environmental justice. Prior to joining GCF, Tonya served in public-private partnerships at the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) Career Program. She has spent most of her career in nonprofit organizations focused on economic justice for young people of color. Gayle is a member of The New York Women’s Foundation Circle of Sisters for Social Change, a graduate of Wesleyan University, and a native Brooklynite. She is an associate producer of the 2006 documentary The Perfect Life featuring young adults from Harlem. Tonya is passionate about providing young people with viable paths to create and lead a just and equitable world.

Jamelle Tucker is a Brooklyn College student majoring in Urban Sustainability who is interested in urban planning, energy democracy, and climate justice. He worked as an intern for the Regional Plan Association, researching the emerging wind sector and completed a community solar training workshop last Fall.

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