Danielle Baez

Danielle Baez is the Program Manager of Climate Initiatives, focused on the implementation of the EnergyFit program. She is dedicated to ensuring that New Yorkers have access to greener, healthier homes through her work on community-informed design, climate change adaptation, and equity research. Whether diving into research and analysis or out in the field, Danielle is committed to working with communities in solidarity and mutuality.

Danielle holds an MA in Urban and Community Planning from Pratt Institute’s Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, where her work concentrated on disaster recovery and the intersection of housing and climate justice. Her thesis was aimed at utilizing modular housing models to respond to displacement and crisis across NYC and creating dignified, long-term housing for vulnerable populations. While at Pratt Institute she also collaborated with MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative on equitable climate change adaptation in the Colombian Amazon, centered on capacity building and community engagement around the risk of landslides. Her previous work at the Center for Urban Community Services was centered on developing over 100 units of supportive housing for homeless New Yorkers. She holds a BA in Sculpture + Engineering from Dartmouth College, in Hanover, NH which led to her housing design work at Amber Interior Design and across California.

Danielle has bounced between the coasts, but has lived in Bed Stuy for the past five years. You can either catch her out at the Rockaways trying (and often failing) to surf, or full of (likely misplaced) hope at a Mets game.