As Deputy Director at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice, I led a team that developed policy initiatives for extreme heat mitigation, transportation resiliency and sustainability, waste management, green infrastructure, and air quality. I also led an interagency team focused on creating maximum indoor temperature regulations, one of the first extreme heat mitigation policies of its kind in the Northeast. These policy areas were key features of PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done, New York City’s Climate Action Plan, and Cool Neighborhoods NYC, the city’s first heat resiliency plan. I also helped New York City secure one of the country’s first heat-related FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grants. As one of the leading experts on extreme heat mitigation strategies in urban areas, I have shared my knowledge with planning and policy makers locally and internationally, as well as university students and young people engaged in citizen science.