Katherine is to the Assistant Director for the unique interdisciplinary Sustainability Program at City College.

With more than ten years of experience studying climate change adaptation across multiple departments, she is excited to apply her background to support students’ goals at a diverse, public institution with both deep local roots and strong global reach.  She is especially excited to help the program grow alongside the executive committee and to continue finding additional opportunities for collaboration in sustainability across CCNY and CUNY-wide departments. She has led capstone projects on retrofitting commercial buildings to create affordable housing and the true cost of Passive House. 

Outside of her role, Katherine is working on her dissertation in the Constructed Environment PhD Program at the University of Virginia School in the Department of Architecture. Her research is focused on affordably retrofitting existing multifamily buildings units for resilience to climate stressors—specifically rent-regulated housing in New York City. While at UVA, Katherine was a teaching assistant both in sustainability courses and for the global sustainability capstone class. Prior to joining City College, she was a resiliency planner focused on multifamily at the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development and a data journalist focused on green building at Hanley Wood—publishers of Architect and Builder Magazine among other trade publications.

While completing her M.A. in Environmental Conservation Education at NYU, she served as the assistant to the program’s director. Katherine holds a B.S. in Geography and Environmental Inquiry from Penn State. Though she’s lived in New York City for years, she remains (somehow proudly) from New Jersey.

Katherine Gloede Silverman

Assistant Director, Sustainability in the Urban Environment

kgloede@ccny.cuny.edu

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