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

Senior Manager, Workforce Development
jlane@ccny.cuny.edu

Daquan Dennis

Program Manager, Building Operations Research and Training
ddennis@ccny.cuny.edu

Jessica Schmidt

Training Department Manager
jschmidt@ccny.cuny.edu

Joyce Jackson

Senior Training Associate
jjackson4@ccny.cuny.edu

Alex Zurakowski

Project Manager
azurakowski@ccny.cuny.edu

Lillibeth Liriano

Senior Associate, NYC Sustainability Help Center
lillibeth@nycsustainability.org

Kristy Calungsod

Technical Program Manager
kcalungsod@ccny.cuny.edu

Morgan Parlo

Senior Engineer
mparlo@ccny.cuny.edu

Trent Strachan

Junior Engineer
tstrachan@ccny.cuny.edu

Kelly Collao

Research Engineer
kcollao@ccny.cuny.edu

Shuhrat Jahan

Funding Coordinator
sjahan1@ccny.cuny.edu

Eugen Ignacio

Junior Engineer
eignacio@ccny.cuny.edu

Yasmeen Khan

E-CMT Program
ykhan@ccny.cuny.edu

Peter Krumdieck

Senior Building Science Educator
pkrumdieck@ccny.cuny.edu

Alejandra Villanueva

Program Associate (Graphic Designer)
avillanuevacastril@ccny.cuny.edu

Ninad Kashyap

Junior Engineer
nkashyap@ccny.cuny.edu

Sahar Hussian

Manager, Instructional Designer
shussain1@ccny.cuny.edu

Maria Henriquez

Workforce Development Coordinator
mhenriquez@ccny.cuny.edu

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