In her 36-year career, Dr. Santasieri has successfully secured and managed hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for projects, programs, and research studies in the fields of environmental, infrastructure, and land use planning, and community development. She has extensive experience and expertise in the planning and design of sustainable and resilient properties, communities, and civil infrastructure systems; strategic planning; brownfields redevelopment; capital programming; community visioning for redevelopment; transit oriented development; port-city relationships; identifying and analyzing a project’s impacts on socio-economic, natural, and man-made settings; and educating elected officials, government staff, nonprofits, communities, and students on various urban, infrastructure, environmental, and regulatory topics. She has a proven record of exceptional program and project management experience, and has led multidisciplinary project teams of planners, engineers, scientists, architects, economists, cultural resource experts, and students. 

Colette holds a PhD in Urban Systems, an MS in Civil Engineering, and a BS in Environmental Planning and Design. These diverse, yet complimentary degrees, plus her extensive and diverse professional experience provide her with a well-rounded perspective in addressing the challenges and opportunities facing governments, regions, and communities in their efforts to be sustainable and resilient. 

Colette Santasieri was the recipient of the NJIT Distinguished Alumni Award in 2017, and the 2019 Commerce and Industry Association of NJ Environmental Leader Award.

Mr. Vroom possesses 30 years of professional experience in the environmental and infrastructure field in both the public and private sectors. He has managed millions of dollars worth of projects, studies, and programs. Sean has created educational forums, and developed and deployed tools that assist regional and local governments plan and develop sustainable and resilient communities. He also has extensive experience in the areas of project concept development, site assessments, environmental planning and permitting, federal and state environmental and laws and regulations, federal and state funding, brownfields redevelopment, and stakeholder engagement. Sean holds a BS in Environmental Planning and Design.

Ms. Bruno possesses over 16 years of experience in environmental investigation, assessment, and remediation. Her responsibilities include helping communities navigate the brownfields regulatory process; interpreting technical and scientific documents to communities; conducting community workshops and webinars; creating site redevelopment strategies; providing health risk information and recommended safeguards; and developing easy-to-understand tools and guidance on technical and regulatory issues. Her previous experience at private consulting firms includes providing technical oversight of remedial investigations, development of conceptual site models, aquifer characterizations, risk assessments, investigation of new groundwater resources, and wellhead protection strategies. Cailyn holds a BS and MS in Geology, and is a New Jersey Licensed Site Remediation Professional and a New York Licensed Professional Geologist.