Catherine brings extensive experience in environmental health issues, community organizing, urban resiliency and sustainability to the Ceres President’s Council. She served two decades on Manhattan Community Board One, more than half that time as Chair or Vice-Chair, and after 9/11 she also chaired its World Trade Center Redevelopment Committee for seven years. After Superstorm Sandy, she was appointed Co-chair of NY Rising Community Reconstruction Program for Southern Manhattan.
Catherine serves on the Board of Directors of the Battery Park City Authority, the South Street Seaport Museum, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment External Advisory Council, Princeton Climate Institute and the Lower Manhattan Historic Association. She is a member of the New York-New Jersey Storm Surge Working Group and the Climate Coalition for Lower Manhattan: FiDi-Seaport Resilience Master Plan.
She previously served on The Trust for Governors Island, the Advisory Board of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, WTC Scientific Technical Advisory Committee, Downtown Alliance Board of Directors, The Battery Conservancy Board of Trustees, Manhattan Solid Waste Advisory Board and US EPA WTC Expert Technical Panel. Catherine also worked for more than a decade at the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) on environmental health and energy issues. Catherine has a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Princeton University.