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Victor Bach
Senior Housing Policy Analyst, Community Service Society
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Betty "Coqui" Brassell
PHROLES member
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Lisa Burris
Director of Organizing, PHROLES
Lisa Burriss began with GOLES as the PHROLES organizer in June 2005. She has been a life-long resident of Public Housing and began working with PH…
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Lisa Burriss began with GOLES as the PHROLES organizer in June 2005. She has been a life-long resident of Public Housing and began working with PHROLES as a steering committee member, eventually becoming the co-chair of the committee. Lisa graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from New Paltz College in 2003 and since has dedicated herself to creating social change. After college, Lisa worked teaching independent living skills to aging out foster children. She is a member of the United Nations Youth Council and co-founded Cultural Unity an organization in New Paltz dedicated to increasing cultural awareness and creating unity through education. Her organizing experience, incredible passion to create change, and first hand knowledge of public housing issues have prepared her for the challenges of organizing around public housing issues. She is bilingual in English and Spanish.
Lisa Burris has worked on
PHTV: What's up with public housing?
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Enida Davis
Organizer, PACC
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Judith Goldiner
Attorney, Legal Aid Society
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Adriene Holder
Attorney-in-Charge, Legal-AID-Society
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Andrea Meller
Filmmaker
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Jennifer Monzon
PHROLES member
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Armando Morales
PHROLES member
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Damaris Reyes
Executive Director, GOLES
Damaris Reyes, has been the Executive Director of PHROLES since April 2005. She is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side and has been involved…
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Damaris Reyes, has been the Executive Director of PHROLES since April 2005. She is a lifelong resident of the Lower East Side and has been involved in public housing issues for more than eight years. Previously, as the Director of Organizing for public housing for PHROLES, she worked to educate and empower residents about the issues that plague public housing. She is a founding member of PHROLES has been involved in building several coalitions, including T.R.A.D.E.S. and Rebuild with a Spotlight on the Poor. In November 2002, she traveled to Europe on a study tour to learn about planning and municipal practices employed by European cities. She is a member of the New York City Jobs with Justice Board of Directors Executive Committee and the Pratt Center for Community Development Advisory Board. Her past credits include working in city government with Council Member Margarita López and electoral politics within the Lower East Side community. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and began with the organization in 2000.
Damaris Reyes has worked on
PHTV: What's up with public housing?
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Desney Reyes
PHROLES member
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Damon Rich
Founder
Damon Rich is an urban designer working at the grisly intersection of design, policy, and the public. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphic…
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Damon Rich is an urban designer working at the grisly intersection of design, policy, and the public. His exhibitions use video, sculpture, graphics, and photography to investigate the political economy of the built environment. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Storefront for Art and Architecture and SculptureCenter (New York City), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Liepzig), and Netherlands Architecture Institute (Rotterdam). In 1997, he founded the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people understand and change the places they live, where he served as Creative Director for 10 years. Damon has taught design at institutions including the Parsons School of Design, Heritage High School, the Brooklyn Museum, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Queens Library Adult Learning Center. He writes about architecture and politics for publications including the Village Voice, the Nation, Metropolis, and Architecture magazine. Damon has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts award for his work with adult literacy and architecture, as well as a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony for his work on the history of urban renewal. In 2007, Damon was selected as a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and an Artist-in-Residence at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, where he developed a pedagogical exhibition on architecture, real estate, and finance.
Damon Rich has worked on
Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Gautreaux v. Urban Renewal, The City without a Ghetto, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, The Center for Critical Skills, The Subsidized Landscape, The Connection between Abandoned Buildings and Homeless People, Governors Island Points of Interest, Cybercity Walking Tour, Hell's Kitchen South: Developing Strategies, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Spacebombing / Don't mess with this city!, What's Poppin at Fulton Mall?, Code City, Temporary Showroom, Social Security Risk Machine, The Programmable City, Chew On This
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Alice Shay
Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independe…
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Alice is an art-organizer, artist, designer, and investigator of city landscapes who has worked with various community art organizations, independent publications and urbanism non-profits. She is currently completing degrees in Art-Semiotics and Urban Studies at Brown University with an Honors thesis project focusing on radical cartography.
Alice Shay has worked on
PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Detroit Do Your Thing!
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Rosten Woo
Executive Director
Rosten Woo has been producing public education projects with CUP since 1999. He teaches design history and theory at Parsons, the New School for De…
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Rosten Woo has been producing public education projects with CUP since 1999. He teaches design history and theory at Parsons, the New School for Design and produces historical research and writing on history, design and public policy for Place Matters, the Municipal Arts Society, Metropolis Magazine and the Village Voice. He has also worked as a researcher and policy analyst for a variety of non-profit organizations including Common Ground Community and the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center. He serves on the board of like-minded non-profits, Place in History and Groundswell Community Mural Project. He received his BA in Government from Cornell University.
Rosten Woo has worked on
Entry Sequence, Public Housing 101, PHTV: What's up with public housing?, Building Codes, Coding Communities, Garbage Problems, Urban Renewal Activity Tables, The Programmable City, The City without a Ghetto, The Center for Critical Skills, Values & Variety: Shopping on Fulton Street, Important Housing Rights, The Subsidized Landscape, Schoolyard Visions, Detroit Do Your Thing!, However Unspectacular: A New Suburbanism, The Water Underground, Abuse of Power: The SPURA Story, Mind the Gap, Big up, Jamaica!, Code City, Knoxville: Building Communities, Mapping the Concourse, Temporary Showroom, People and Buildings, Just In/Justice, The Cargo Chain, Building Codes
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