Daphne Lundi

Daphne Lundi is the Deputy Director for Living Streets & Public Spaces at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Climate and Environmental Justice. Her team’s work is focused on creating programs that strengthen and prepare NYC communities against climate change impacts, expanding green infrastructure investments that mitigate the urban heat island effect and support stormwater management in the public realm, advancing transit equity and accessibility, and supporting investments in social infrastructure.

She is a founding member and board member of BlackSpace, a collective of Black urbanists that work to bridge the gaps between policy, people, and place to address inequality and injustice in the built environment. She also serves as an Advisory Board Member and visiting teacher for the Octavia Project, a science-fiction summer program for teen girls and non-binary youth that uses the lens of science fiction to explore computer science, writing, and city-making. She is also the co-creator of Laudi CoLab, an arts-based design practice.