Sustainable Westchester’s beginnings can be traced back to the economic crisis of 2008. The $831 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), signed into law by President Barack Obama in early 2009, had as its primary goal job creation, in part through targeted public investment in such areas as energy efficiency. In 2009, a group of northern Westchester County municipalities teamed up to create a collaborative energy efficiency program, targeted for homeowners, to win some of the federal Recovery Act stimulus funding. Meanwhile, in 2010-11, numerous civic leaders in the Hudson River municipalities in southern Westchester County saw the benefits of forming a sister consortium. With NWEAC as a model, eleven municipalities created the Southern Westchester Energy Action Consortium (SWEAC), comprised of the appointed chairs of municipal environmental committees.
In the true POWER OF COMMUNITY…
On November 13, 2013, a unanimous vote at a meeting of the members resulted in an amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation for Northern Westchester Energy Action Consortium, Inc., changing the name to Sustainable Westchester, Inc., with Herb Oringel as Chairperson of the Board of Directors. Sustainable Westchester was essentially the product of combining NWEAC and SWEAC. The combined organization held its inaugural Board of Directors Meeting on December 19, 2014 at Greenburgh Town Hall.

Enrique Aguas
Program Coordinator, Solar Programs
Noam Bramson
Executive Director
Jan Brennan
Director of Development
Lauren Brois
Program Director, Building Decarbonization
Karyn DeFranco
Senior Program Manager, Westchester Power
Michel Delafontaine
Program Director, Research and Innovation
Lauren Kroell
Senior Program Manager, Building Decarbonization
Clarke Littlejohn
Climate Justice Associate
Christine Muaddi
Energy Advisor, Building Decarbonization
Yasmin Najjar
Program Manager, Environmental Justice & Special Projects
Megan Ort
Program Manager, Building Decarbonization
Mary Pena Silfa
Marketing and Communications Manager
Carmen Pei
Senior Program Manager, Solar Programs
Dara Rivadeneira
Program Coordinator, Building Decarbonization
Cat Sayles
Chief Operating Officer
Nick Tedrow
Deputy Program Director, Westchester Power
Dan Welsh
Program Director, Westchester Power
Leo Wiegman
Program Director, Solar Programs
Saul Zajkowski-Ennabe
Program Coordinator, Westchester Power
Nicola Armacost
Mayor of Hastings-on-Hudson
Julie Chang
CEO, JCA Strategic Solutions
Bridget Gibbons
Director of Economic Development
Westchester County
Ken Jenkins
County Executive
Westchester County
Melissa Kaplan-Macey
Chief Initiative Officer, Center for Housing Opportunity
The Housing Collective
Sara Kaye
Council Member
City of New Rochelle
Jim Kuster
Board Co-Chair
Warren Lucas
Board Treasurer
Supervisor, Town of North Salem
Kaela Mainsah
Vice President of Environmental Justice
at the New York Power Authority
Stephen A. Manzi
Retired Fundraising Officer
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shawyn Patterson-Howard
City of Mount Vernon
Mayor
Howard Permut
Executive Management Consultant
William Serratore
Director of Sustainability,
City of Yonkers
June Wallach
Member, Town of Mamaroneck
Sustainability Collaborative
Dane Warren
Associate
Sive, Paget, & Riesel P.C.
Tom Watson
President, CauseWired LLC