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DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg (foreground) and Mayor de Blasio at a June press conference.

Deborah Morris

Deborah Helaine Morris is an urbanist focused on the kinetic potential of community partnerships to link climate adaptation with economic equity. Deborah has significant experience linking disaster recovery to long-term planning from 9/11 to Hurricane Sandy. Most recently, as the Executive Director of Resiliency Policy, Planning, and Acquisitions at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Deborah created a new team, focused on the development of programs to lead aggressive climate change adaption in affordable housing including the recovery of housing damaged by Hurricane Sandy; holistic community planning initiatives linking disaster recovery to address long-term needs; and the management of a property buyout program. Deborah has a master's in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of Michigan. Deborah is currently a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS

Opinion: NYC Schools Can Learn From ‘Open Streets’ & ‘Open Restaurants’

By Deborah Morris | September 4, 2020

As politicians quibble over schedules and temperate checks: parents, teachers, principals, custodians and children could learn from the City’s most recent attempt to better use the public space of streets.

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