Category: Staff Volunteers

  • Danial Rushton

    Having grown up in a progressive home, where meals often included home-grown vegetables and discussions on sustainable living, Danial Rushton has always been interested in environmental issues.  However, after college he fell into work in the online advertising sector.  As he continued in this field it became increasingly apparent that he needed to do something…

  • Jordan Bonomo

    Jordan Bonomo became interested in environmental issues during his senior year at Boston University when he worked on a climate change campaign for MASSPIRG. After a year working with a New York-based nonprofit managing environmental cleanup projects in third world communities, he was bit by the travel bug and left the states to live and…

  • Mohini Tadikonda

    Mohini Tadikonda has recently completed a Permaculture Design Certification course.  Her goal is to be an active participant in making NYC a more sustainable city through retrofitting the current infrastructure.  She believes that the first step is making information accessible and understandable to the public which is where organizations like GreenHomeNYC become so important.

  • Mary Tchamkina

    Mary Tchamkina has recently decided that selling art to rich people is not how she’d rather spend the hours between 9 am and 5 pm.  She is now volunteering with GreenHomeNYC and interning at Solar1 to learn everything she can about green building in hopes that, one day, she can have a 9-to-5 educating and…

  • Olivia Eckfeld

    Having grown up in various countries and developed a love for traveling, Olivia Susai Eckfeld found a passion for the urban environment at an early age. After attaining her bachelor’s degree in urban planning in Perth, Australia (her hometown) she moved to Canada and received her Master of Planning degree at Queen’s University focusing on…

  • Robbie Holden

    Robbie Holden has an interest in sustainable building practices and how it can enhance one’s emotional and physiological well being thus impacting behavior. She is particularly interested in research that confirms that sustainable medical facilities can improve recovery time after surgery, and that green educational institutions are more conducive to learning. She currently is a mental health…

  • Melani Tankel

    Melani is a new volunteer in 2009.

  • Dwan Daniels

    Dwan Daniels was first introduced to GreenHomeNYC by an attorney at her office.  After attending the monthly forums for a year, she decided to volunteer in 2009.  Dwan is an affordable housing advocated and has been in New York since January 2007 when she started her job with the New York City Housing Development Corp (NYCHDC) as the…

  • Diana Nezamutinova

    Diana Nezamutinova was raised in the oil and gas region of Western Siberia (Russia), where the the environmental impact of the oil industry was felt by many.  She studied Economics in Tyumen State University focusing in Environmental Management.  She enhanced her environmental education in a Master program at the Central European University in Budapest (Hungary),…

  • Dolly Soto

    Dolly is a new volunteer in 2009.