Jainey K. Bavishi

Jainey K. Bavishi is the director of the New York City Mayor's Office of Resiliency. She oversees a $20 billion plan to prepare New York City, including the 520 miles of the city’s coastline, for the impacts of climate change. Bavishi was the associate director for climate preparedness at the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Obama administration, where she led the implementation of the climate preparedness pillar of the president's Climate Action Plan.

Education and early life

Bavishi is from Charlotte, North Carolina.[1] Before attending graduate school, she worked in Orissa, India on a campaign to start childcare centers in communities below the poverty line.[1]

She attended Duke University and earned a bachelor's degree in public policy and cultural anthropology. She has a master's degree in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2][3] While at MIT, she traveled to New Orleans to work with disaster relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.[1]

Career

Bavishi moved to New Orleans in 2006, where she led a coalition of Gulf Coast advocates working on equitable disaster recovery in the region.[4] She was also the executive director of R3ADY Asia-Pacific based in Honolulu, Hawaii.[3]

During the Obama administration, Bavishi worked as a senior policy advisor and director of external affairs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Bavishi was also the associate director for climate preparedness at the White House Council on Environmental Quality during the Obama administration, where she led the implementation of the climate preparedness pillar of the president's Climate Action Plan.[4][5][3]

In 2017, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio appointed her as the director of the New York City mayor's Office of Recovery and Resiliency.[6][7][8][4][3][9] She oversees a $20 billion plan to help New York City prepare for the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, intense rain and extreme heat.[4][7][2] Mayor Bill de Blasio established the office in 2014, which includes a team of urban planners, architects, engineers, lawyers, and policy experts who use scientific evidence to develop programs and policies that address impacts of climate change.[10][2]

Bavishi is a contributing author to the anthology, All We Can Save, edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson.[6]

References
  1. Karagianis, Liz (2007). "Rebuilding after Katrina". MIT Spectrum.
  2. "New York City". Resilient Cities Network. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  3. "Mayor de Blasio Appoints Jainey Bavishi to City's Integrated Climate Team as Director of Recovery and Resiliency". New York City Hall. January 3, 2017.
  4. Knowles, David (June 4, 2019). "Can Lower Manhattan survive climate change? New York's sea level rise plan faces pushback". Yahoo News.
  5. Bresser, Lynae (October 25, 2016). "Necessity Is the Mother of Invention: Islands as the Vanguard of Climate Adaptation". New Security Beat.
  6. Cohen, Ilana (September 5, 2020). "Q&A: Why Women Leading the Climate Movement are Underappreciated and Sometimes Invisible". Inside Climate News.
  7. Schwartz, John (December 13, 2018). "Cities Prepare to Face New Disasters". New York Times.
  8. Loria, Kevin (April 12, 2018). "The world faces a future of floods, famine, and extreme heat — here's what it'll take to bounce back". Business Insider.
  9. Murphy, Jarrett (October 24, 2019). "The Summer of 2019 is Over but the Heat Risk to NYC is Not Going Away". City Limits.
  10. Bavishi, Jainey. "Director of Mayor's Office of Resiliency, Jainey Bavishi". NYC Mayor's Office of Resiliency.
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