Category: Staff Volunteers

  • Shai Lauros

    Executive Director

  • Vera Chen

    Vera Chen is a LEED GA and a staff volunteer in the Public Programs Team  of GreenHomeNYC. She is currently organizing the Spring 2011 Green Building Open House tour in Queens. She obtained her M.S. in Mathematics in Finance at NYU, and worked in Fixed-income Research at Salomon Smith Barney. She also briefly worked in…

  • Marin Schloss

    Marin recently received her Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning and Environmental Science from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Having always had a keen eye for design, mainly materials and their usage, she has decided to focus her energy on opening her own consulting firm in which she will spec green materials and…

  • Max Brenner

    Max is an undergraduate architecture student at the University of Virginia. He is interested in sustainable home design and energy politics, and looks forward to the learning opportunities GreenHomeNYC will provide.

  • Brian Rahm

    Brian is an environmental engineer who has engaged in research on groundwater contaminant remediation, water and wastewater treatment, and greenhouse gas emissions from municipal facilities. He currently teaches in the after-school program at the American Museum of Natural History (and no, he still hasn’t seen Night at the Museum). He recently earned his LEED Green…

  • Christina Ficicchia

    Christina became interested in sustainable development while obtaining her undergraduate degree in Biology at Boston University, where her plans to study medicine began to shift to environmental quality issues. She went on to obtain a Masters Degree from Pratt Institute in City and Regional Planning focusing on sustainable development and environmental best practices. She has…

  • Alanna Martin

    Alanna Martin is a principal of Green Properties New York, a commercial real estate brokerage dedicated to helping clients create and lease sustainable spaces.  She is a graduate of Columbia University and Brooklyn Law School.  Alanna is a LEED AP.

  • Nick Goldsmith

    Nick Goldsmith grew up in Ithaca, NY before graduating in mathematics from Brown University. He continued on to graduate school in Montreal – at Ecole Nationale de Cirque – where he received a degree in circus arts. For the last eight years Nick has been the sole proprietor of an entertainment business, performing worldwide as…

  • Jill Lanier

    Jill Lanier has always had an interest in the environment, sustainability as well as the effective, efficient use of resources and materials.  Recent domestic and global developments in both economic and environmental arenas have only further fueled this interest.  Jill holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) as well as graduate…