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Who We Are > Board of Directors
Susan Albrecht (Co-Chair)
Susan Albrecht has been a resident of Greenpoint for eighteen years.
She joined the NAG Board in 2002. In 2000-2001, she served on the
Brooklyn Community Board #1 Task Force on Mc Carren Park Pool, which
resulted in an approved plan to reuse the abandoned pool space as a
multi-faceted, year-round recreational facility. She is also a member
of Park Moms, dedicated to improving the aesthetic and safety of the Mc
Carren Park playground, and serves on the PTA Executive Committee for
Beginning with Children Charter School is south Williamsburg.
Professionally, Susan is Associate Director of Progress of Peoples
Development Corporation, the housing affiliate of Brooklyn Catholic
Charities. Prior to working with Catholic Charities, Susan was Director
of Planning and Agency Relations for the United Way in Greenwich, CT.
She has previously served on the Steering Committee of the Supportive
Housing Network of New York and currently co-chairs the Housing
Committee of the Council of Senior Centers and Services of New York
City.
Eddie Bartosiewicz
One of NAG's founding members, Eddie Bartosiewicz
was born and raised in the Northside. He retired from JP Morgan Chase
after 22 years as a Network System Analyst, and is now studying to be a
locksmith. Eddie is also a Trustee at Holy Ghost Ukrainian Catholic
Church on North 5th Street.
Allison Davis
Allison became involved in social and human rights activism at an early age, visiting a project her family worked on to help bring running water to a remote part of the Dominican Republic. Since her early exposure to social injustice, she has been involved with projects to help feed and house the homeless in her home state of Florida, organize events geared towards spreading the word of cruelties in Rwanda and Darfur, and additional events to protest the war in Iraq. After moving to the North Brooklyn area in 2003, she became interested in local history, issues and community organizing and worked on the Obama campaign, later attending the DNC as an elected delegate. She has also volunteered to help end cruelty to farm animals. She joined NAG in 2008 and is co-chair of the Affordable Housing Committee.
Ward Dennis
Ward Dennis is a partner at Higgins Quasebarth & Partners, LLC, a New York-based historic preservation consulting firm specializing in the restoration, rehabilitation and adaptive use of historic properties. His work at HQ includes research and documentation, conditions assessment surveys, preservation tax credit approvals, zoning and land use approvals and design consultation and approvals for new buildings and additions to historic buildings. Ward is also an adjunct assistant professor of historic preservation at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. Ward is the land use chair for Community Board #1 in Brooklyn and is a founding member of the Waterfront Preservation Alliance of Greenpoint & Williamsburg. He holds a BA in Geography and an MS in Historic Preservation.
Michael Freedman-Schnapp (Co-Chair)
Michael lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. His work has encompassed issues of economic justice, land use, criminal justice, community organizing, race relations, and sustainable urban development policy. He also consults for non-profit and public agencies on policy, urban planning and statistical projects. He holds a Masters in Urban Planning from NYU's Wagner School of Public Policy.
Emily Gallagher
Emily has been a Greenpoint resident since 2006. She pursues environmental and social justice with a neighborhood focus, getting her start writing about the toxic legacies of industrial Northside and creating a hands-on media literacy program for St. Nick's after school program in Williamsburg. She also worked as a research assistant on the art project Superfund365, which lead her to co-create a workshop on digitally mapping toxic communities. Currently, Gallagher researches the social history of New York City for her walking tour project, The Xenophile NYC. She is employed as an Educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and holds a BA in Culture and Communications from Ithaca College (2006.)
Roseann Henry
Roseann was born and raised on the Northside and has
long been concerned about environmental justice in her neighborhood.
She is a Supervisor at the New York City Police Department's Payroll
Section. Roseann also serves as co-president of the Holy Family Church
Ladies Guild.
Christine Holowicz
Christine Holowacz immigrated to the United
States from Poland in 1972. She became involved in environmental issues
in the Greenpoint community during the 1980s. President of the
Greenpoint Property Owners since 1989, Christine devotes much of her
time to issues concerning senior citizen homeowners. She is also the
Church of St. Cecilia political and housing coordinator. Christine
served on the Greenpoint Community Board #1's 197a Committee as well as
its Rezoning and Kosciusko Bridge upgrade Task Forces. She initiated
the first meeting in the successful fight against the proposed Key
Span/Con Edison power plant in Greenpoint, leading to the founding of
GWAPP, which she co-chairs. She is currently part of the Greenpoint
Coalition, St Nicholas Preservation and the Greenpoint Williamsburg
Waterfront Task Force, and is the Community Liaison at the Newtown
Creek Wastewater Treatment plant for the Newntown Creek Monitor
Committee (NCMC). Christine received the Woman of the Millennium and
the Carmine "Dusty" De Chair Community awards from the Seneca Club,
(2001 & 2002) for her work with GWAPP and a Citation in 2002 from the
Borough President for her work in the Polish Community. She holds a BA
in Economics and Accounting from Brooklyn College.
Waldemar Kawalko
Waldemar Kawalko emigrated from Poland to USA in 1987 during the Solidarity movement. He has been a resident of the
Northside since 1996, a member of NAG since 1998, and a board member since 2000. Waldemar has worked in the fashion industry since 1970; currently he works as a senior fashion technical designer at The
Limited Inc. He holds a BS from The Fashion Institute of Technology in fashion design and marketing.
Felice Kirby
Born in NYC, Felice came to work in the Northside when
she was hired by the late neighborhood activist Adam Veneski to build a
community organizing department of the People's Firehouse during the
years of property abandonment and arson-for-profit schemes in the late
1970's/early 80's. She has been involved in many local volunteer-driven
efforts to protect and increase affordable housing, jobs, health
service clinics, senior housing, youth after school programs, and the
renovations of Metropolitan Pool and the Williamsburg Bridge. In the
late 1980's, Felice joined the Citizens' Committee for New York City
where she pioneered a New York City and, later, national, program to
train police officers in building partnerships with community
organizations to prevent drug and violence. Felice is the managing
partner of Teddy's Bar and Grill, a 120-year old North Brooklyn
business with a history of community involvement dating back to Tammany
Hall, and is raising her family in the same building.
Lacey Tauber
Lacey Tauber has lived in Williamsburg since 2006. She began organizing in New York City in 2004 as a member of Ladyfest NY, a collectively-run non-profit festival focusing on feminist art, music, performance, and skill sharing. Lacey then earned her Master’s in Historic Preservation from Pratt Institute in 2006. Her capstone paper focused on preservation’s place in environmental review, with the North Side as case study. Since then, she has served as a Preservation/Planning Fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development, and Community Liaison at the Municipal Art Society’s Planning Center, where she coordinated the work of the Community-Based Planning Task Force. Lacey recently returned to Pratt as an administrator, visiting assistant professor, and graduate student in urban planning. An avid cyclist and pedestrian, Lacey chairs NAG’s Transportation Working Group.
Jackie Moynahan
Jackie Moynahan is a resident Williamsburg performing artist/producer since 2002. Her artistic endeavors and work with the Williamsburg Art Nexus, (WAX) serving local artists lead Jackie to obtain her MS in Urban Policy, concentrated in community development finance from Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy. Jackie joined NAG in 2008 and currently works for the NYC Housing Development Corporation.
Stephanie Thayer
Stephanie has been a leader in the fight for contextual development/against overdevelopment, during and after the rezoning of Williamsburg Greenpoint, as a spokesperson with the North Brooklyn Alliance, and a leader of Stop Our Supersizing. As a founding member of the Waterfront Preservation Alliance, she also works to promote local landmarks and preservation issues. She is a the Executive Director of the Open Space Alliance, a conservancy raising funds to improve our neighborhood parks. Stephanie is a partner in a small business, a veteran staffmember of several political campaigns, and a former vice-president of a major financial institution.
Evan Thies
Evan Thies is a media and strategic planning aid to some of New York City's largest non-profit advocacy organizations, including ACORN, Housing Here and Now, the Pratt Center, and the Urban Justice Center. Prior to going into private practice, Evan was at City Hall in the office of Council Member David Yassky for nearly five years, where he worked on affordable housing, gun control and other issues. Evan also worked in the office of Sen. Hillary Clinton, and on several campaigns for elected office, including that of Attorney General Andrew Cuomo. Evan is currently on the board of several civic and issue-based organizations in New York City. He serves as chair of the Environment and Sanitation Committee of Community Board One in Brooklyn.
Joe Weisbord
Joe is an urban planner with over 25 years of experience in affordable housing and community development in New York City and across the country. Joe has worked for the Pratt Center for Community Development, Corporation for Supportive Housing. and served as staff director of the Housing First! campaign from 2001 to 2004. He began his career in the construction industry working as a carpenter, electrician and contractor. He currently manages initiatives on homelessness and foreclosure prevention for Fannie Mae, the Washington, DC based housing finance company. Joe moved to the Northside in 1988 and is a founding member of the NAG board. |
