Sanjay Seth Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

I serve as a Lecturer at Harvard University, where I teach an interdisciplinary course on climate change, equity, urban planning, and public policy. The course is open to cross-registration and is offered at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in the Department of Urban Planning and Design.

Washington, Dc, Us

Sanjay serves as Chief of Staff & Senior Advisor for Climate and Equity in the Office of the Regional Administrator at the US Environmental Protection Agency, Region 1, an approximately 600-person unit of EPA focused on the New England region. In this role, he directly supports the Regional Administrator to craft and implement policy, planning, operations, and personnel strategies across all EPA programs, including supporting the development and regional implementation of grant programs funded under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act.

Washington, Dc, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Served on the Climate Ready Boston team at the Environment Department, where he led neighborhood climate resilience planning, managed the Climate Ready Boston program in collaboration with a wide range of partners, and engaged in other plans, projects, and partnerships that address the impacts of climate change and protect the health and well-being of all residents and communities in Boston. (www.boston.gov/departments/environment)As part of the Climate Ready Boston team's work in the Environment Department over the past two years, the City of Boston released our citywide heat resiliency plan with particular focus on environmental justice neighborhoods; kicked off a new $2.5 million Climate Ready Streets program focused on improving air quality, heat resilience, and stormwater management along public transportation routes supporting disadvantaged communities; developed and supported more than $70 million in various Federal and State grant proposals for climate resilience investments with the majority of funds focused on disadvantaged communities; launched new State and Federal partnerships, including work with the Army Corps of Engineers, to advance the work of Climate Ready Boston to implementation as we completed our final neighborhood climate resilience plan; distributed direct aid to overburdened and disadvantaged residents to better protect them from heat waves; launched a Cool Roof grant program highlighting equitable heat resilience solutions for environmental justice neighborhoods; and will complete the City's final neighborhood coastal resilience solutions plan for East Boston and Charlestown, among other projects. Additionally, the team has grown from two full-time staff to four full-time staff and three full-time fellows - and is expecting to hire up to two additional full-time staff over the coming year.

Helped lead the work of the Management Committee and helped set the strategic direction for a non-profit organization with a volunteer-driven community of around 2,000 Harvard alumni who work to address our climate crisis. (www.harvardclimate.com)As part of the dedicated team behind HACE over three years, we had grown the organization to around 2,000 alums since its founding; launched a comprehensive climate action training series for hundreds of participants; partnered with the HBS Innovation Lab and Business and Environment Initiative to support the growth of dozens of climate ventures; held tons of events on everything from career transitions into climate fields, climate policy, international negotiations, environmental justice, agriculture, and more; launched city-based and topic-based affinity groups; and launched networking sessions, book clubs, mentorship programs, and more.

A fellowship focused on transatlantic learning and dialogue on sustainable development and climate change.

Wilmington, De, Us

Uniondale, New York, Us

Served on an interdisciplinary team on behalf of the City of New York to help develop a plan for a multi-billion dollar investment to protect the city from the impacts of climate change.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Served on the teaching team at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government for a hands-on course led by Marshall Ganz, Rita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing and Civil Society. The course was focused on building effective, values-driven organizing campaigns.

Founded and managed the Climate Leaders Program, a year-long formal program for students with a professional interest in climate action. Developed in partnership with the University, this program continues to support cohorts from business, design, engineering, government, law, public health, and other programs. (www.climateleadersprogram.com)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Selected pro-bono team consulting work (part-time, related to fellowships, coursework): - Developed a strategy for stormwater management, infrastructure finance, and climate resilience for the Mayor of New Orleans, LA- Developed a strategy to improve climate resilience and navigate Federal flood insurance regulations for the Mayor of Newburyport, MA- Developed a proposal to use carbon offset markets to drive investments to public schools and neighborhoods in low-income areas for the State of Rhode Island- Developed governance structure and cost-sharing agreements for a new regional climate governance entity, the Coastal Resilience Partnership, to facilitate climate adaptation planning and infrastructure procurement for communities in South Florida-Co-led a semester-long study group focused the Houston region after Hurricane Harvey, including a multi-day visit for a large group of students to meet with community, local and county government, business, faith, emergency response, and military stakeholders.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Served as a Fellow of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, developing tailored management, leadership, and decision-making programs for mayors and their senior staff.

New York, Us

Built a custom, regional-scale housing dataset that allowed for more detailed geospatial analyses at regional, county, and municipal levels, in order to analyze housing policy and trends across the New York metropolitan region.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed research, planning, and advocacy efforts around climate change adaptation and mitigation, habitat conservation and restoration, energy generation and efficiency, parks and open space, regional cap-and-trade systems, and international forums for sharing best practices among global cities and regions.

New York, Ny, Us

Provided geospatial and comparative analyses of socioeconomic trends and supported community surveys, site visits, consultation, outreach, and planning studies to help develop updated master plans.

New York, New York, Us

Provided research and analysis for an urban agriculture study conducted in partnership with NYC Parks - and for a public space study conducted in partnership with NYCDOT.

Worked on a range of local, state, national, and international progressive political campaigns in a mix of part- and full-time roles.

Master In Public Administration

Master In Urban Planning

B.A., Economics, Politics, And Public Policy