Lecture by Daniel Chu .

 

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Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM (EST)

Room 1108, Parsons,

2W 13th Street, New York, NY.

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 Daniel Chu, Senior Energy Planner for New York City Environmental Justice Alliance is a geographer and urban designer with an interest in democratic built environment planning for environmental justice communities. His work centers around a democratic transformation for vulnerable landscapes and their ecologies by developing strategies for preservation and development without perpetuating inequality. As the Energy Planner, he coordinates various just transition and energy democracy campaigns designed to inform city, state, and federal policies and regulations, such as his work with the PEAK Coalition or REVitalize Partnership. He came to NYC-EJA with energy experiences in Local Law 97 implementation and NYSERDA-funded energy efficiency retrofits. His multi-year involvement in an immigrant and community-led cooperative housing design process has been exhibited in the French National Museum of Immigration History. Daniel received an M.S. in Design & Urban Ecologies and a B.A. in Urban Studies from The New School and is a current Ph.D. student in Earth and Environmental Science at the City University of New York. Founded in 1991, the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 citywide membership network linking grassroots organizations from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color in their struggle for environmental justice. NYC-EJA empowers its member organizations to advocate for improved environmental conditions and against inequitable environmental burdens by the coordination of campaigns designed to inform City and State policies. Through our efforts, member organizations coalesce around specific common issues that threaten the ability for low-income communities of color to thrive. NYC-EJA is led by the community-based organizations that it serves. NYC-EJA was founded with two clear, yet profound charges: to identify the systemic reasons why communities of color were environmentally and economically overburdened, and to develop strategies to dismantle those inequitable systems.

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This event has been organized by Ana Fisyak for the MS Design and Urban Ecologies Colloquium II. It is free and open to faculty, staff, students and the general public.