Staff, Instructors & Interns

Michael Bobker – with the steady leadership of CIUS Director Buz Paaswell (CIUS is BPL’s parent organization) – began BPL as a one-man operation in 2006. It’s something of an understatement to say we’ve grown quite a bit since then.

As of 2021, Honey Berk has assumed the role of Executive Director of BPL while Michael Bobker has become Founding Executive Director. Our Training Department alone has 12 full-time senior and junior staff members and 15-20 interns at a time. When including staff from our other departments, those numbers more than double.

Paul Reale

Director of Building Operations, Research, and Training
preale@ccny.cuny.edu

Katherine Careddu

Associate Director of Training
kcareddu@ccny.cuny.edu

James Henderson

Program Director, NYC Sustainability Help Center
jim@nycsustainability.org

James Lane

Project Manager, Building Operator Training
jlane@ccny.cuny.edu

Daquan Dennis

Project Manager, Building Re-Tuning
ddennis@ccny.cuny.edu

Nora Sherman

Director of Communications
nsherman1@ccny.cuny.edu

Jessica Schmidt

Training Department Administrator
jschmidt@ccny.cuny.edu

Joyce Jackson

Senior Training Associate
jjackson4@ccny.cuny.edu

Alex Zurakowski

Project Manager
azurakowski@ccny.cuny.edu

Lillibeth Liriano

Associate, NYC Sustainability Help Center
lillibeth@nycsustainability.org

Kristy Calungsod

Senior Engineer
kcalungsod@ccny.cuny.edu

Morgan Parlo

Senior Engineer

Paula Meneses

Training Associate
pmeneses@ccny.cuny.edu

Trent Strachan

Junior Engineer
tstrachan@ccny.cuny.edu

Kelly Collao

Junior Engineer

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