Lee Altman, AIA, LEED AP, is Director of Design Management at SCAPE. She draws on her experience in city government as well as her past work with architects, artists, scientists and public health professionals to form a multifaceted perspective in managing landscape, urban design and infrastructure projects. Within SCAPE, she works to develop firm-wide project management systems and processes and facilitates peer learning across project teams.

Alex Moscovitz is an Environmental Planner at VHB, where she collaborates with agencies and developers on infrastructure, land use, and planning projects, leveraging her background in urban planning, public health, and environmental science. Alex helps integrate a health-equity framework into planning decision-making in clean energy development, transportation, and neighborhood initiatives at the local and regional level.

Jack Robbins is a Partner and Director of Urban Design at FXCollaborative, where he works with public and private clients to create vibrant, sustainable cities. He has led mixed-use development projects, spanning urban infrastructure, transportation, multi-family residential developments, and large-scale master plans. Jack also teaches in the Real Estate program at NYU, and his writing has appeared in Architectural Record, World Architecture, and the New York Times.

Shari Suchoff is the Executive Director of Brooklyn Communities Collaborative (BCC) and Senior Vice President for Population Health and Government Relations at Maimonides Medical Center. Shari has played a key role in developing and implementing population health management initiatives at Maimonides for over a decade, including the Brooklyn Health Home, the Community Care of Brooklyn Performing Provider System, and BCC. Shari has led the Department of Population Health’s efforts related to addressing social determinants of health, managing the hospital-based transitional care program and community engagement activities with a large and diverse network of partners. Prior to joining Maimonides, Shari served as senior policy advisor on health care issues to Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand during the consideration of the Affordable Care Act, and as a health policy advisor to Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer.

Jenny Osman is an Assistant Vice President at the NYCEDC within the Neighborhood Strategies department, working to incorporate her academic focus on the public health impacts of the built environment, and experience in food policy, into the agency’s urban planning work. Jenny has been at EDC for over five years. For four of those years, Jenny managed a tax incentive program to support supermarket development and renovation in low-income areas of the city, called FRESH. Jenny is a native New Yorker and has always enjoyed walking the city and discovering its hidden histories – more recently Jenny has been taking advantage of more of NYC’s natural beauty through long bike rides, visits to the Jamaica bay nature refuge and kayaking in NYC’s many waterways.