Built Environment and Public Health: Chronic Conditions and the Physical Environment
Tyler McMillen
Tyler began working at the City of Providence's Department of Planning/ Providence Redevelopment Agency in late 2021, serving as Associate Director of Community Development. In that role he works to advance the ambitious goals of the City's Anti-Displacement and Comprehensive Housing Strategy, drawing from nearly two decades working to advance the civil rights of vulnerable communities.
While he has worked as a consultant, eviction defense attorney, real estate broker, and nonprofit executive director, Tyler’s #1 job is Dad to his two amazing kids.
Susan Shim Gorelick
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Susan Shim Gorelick, Founder and Executive Director of CC4ES, Coalition Center for Environmental Sustainability, www.cc4es.org , advocates school community collaborative platform for cultivating community member narrated and empowered sustainability that intersects and champions environmental, social and economic justice and equity. CC4ES tends to the frontline communities using gardening to grow food and environmental stewardship as paradigm shift mobilizers at the community grassroots levels. As a chemist, environmental economist, permaculture designer and practitioner and a Master Gardener, Susan facilitates outreach education on healthy and sustainable lifestyle in tandem with skills training on urban agriculture and environmental stewardship for community members of all ages. Gardening to grow food is the common thread underpinning all CC4ES programs -- Rhody Grows Hope, Museum of Silenced Histories & Garden of Regeneration, Youths for Urban Sustainability, Rhody Greeneers and CC4ES-Direct. Susan holds a B.S. and M.S. in chemistry, a dual ABD in chemistry and education with concentration in curriculum/program development focusing on inner-city school systems, and a Ph.D. in environmental and natural resource economics.
Scott Wolf
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For more than four decades, Scott Wolf has transformed opinion and policy research into effective communication and legislative strategies for progressive policy organizations, media outlets, elected officials and political candidates. Scott has substantial experience leading public policy organizations, including his current position as Executive Director of Grow Smart Rhode Island, a position he has held since March of 1999. From 1995 through early 1999, he led a national issue education organization sponsored by labor, senior, environmental and social service organizations, and focused on Congress’s agenda and ballot initiatives. He also managed the 1994 Ron Sims for U.S. Senate campaign, directed the Rhode Island Governor’s Office of Housing, Energy and Intergovernmental Relations and ran a political and public policy consulting firm whose clients included Americans for the Environment, NBC News and U.S. Senators Tim Wirth and Gary Hart.
As Executive Director of Grow Smart Rhode Island, Scott oversees a broad coalition of community leaders committed to sustainable and equitable growth based on urban and town center revitalization, a strengthened public transportation system and preservation of Rhode Island's outstanding collection of farms and forestland. Since Scott joined Grow Smart Rhode Island the organization has received awards from EPA, Preserve Rhode Island, the Providence Preservation Society, The Environmental Business Council of New England, the American Planning Association’s Rhode Island chapter, Rhode Island Housing and the Rhode Island Foundation. Scott also received—in March of 2017-- Leadership RI’s Rhode Island Community Service Award.
A veteran community activist, Scott ran for Rhode Island’s First Congressional District seat in 1988 and 1990, strongly challenging two incumbent Congressmen. As a senior staffer for Rhode Island Governor Bruce Sundlun, he promoted education reform initiatives, ran the state’s heating assistance and principal energy conservation programs, and coordinated state government’s relations with municipalities and the federal government.
Earlier in his career, Scott played a substantial role in the Democratic Party’s national research and communications efforts. He developed a strategy to counter the “New Right” movement as a consultant to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, served as the first Research Director for the Carter-Mondale Reelection Committee and was part of a strategy team promoting Carter Administration initiatives, including the nation’s first Energy Act, while the Democratic National Committee’s Director of Political Research. He also analyzed public opinion trends for Democratic elected officials nationwide.
A 1975 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University, Scott began his career as a public opinion analyst for William R. Hamilton and Staff and Peter D. Hart Research Associates. For many years, he has also worked with the media, serving as political commentator for a Providence television station and an adviser for a 1987 PBS series “Ethics in America.”
Elected as a 1992 Democratic National Convention delegate for Bill Clinton, Scott’s other community activities have included board positions with the Miriam Hospital, the Providence Zoning Board, Dorcas Place, and the Jewish Family Service. He is also a current member of the Rhode Island State Planning Council and a 1987 Graduate of Leadership RI. For 36 years, until late 2022, he had the incrediblly good fortune to have as his soulmate and partner in discovery, Joyce Krabach, a former school principal and award-winning early childhood teacher.