Deborah Helaine Morris is an urban planner and designer focused at the nexus of climate change and social equity. Most recently, as the Executive Director of Resiliency Policy, Planning, and Acquisitions at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Deborah created a new team, focused on the development programs to lead aggressive climate change adaption in affordable housing including recovery of housing damaged by Hurricane Sandy; community planning initiatives; and the management of a property buyout program. Deborah was raised in Queens but now calls Brooklyn home. She received a Master’s in City Planning and Urban Design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of Michigan. Deborah is a 2020 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.