Adán Guzman

El Puente Hub Advocate

Adán Guzman is a first-generation Caribbean Hispanic graduate of CUNY Brooklyn College and an early-career natural areas practitioner and environmental educator. Over the past five years, Adán has been actively involved in monitoring and stewardship efforts across the city and state’s natural areas and parkland, spanning from Soundview in the Bronx and to Clay Pit Ponds State Park in Staten Island. 

He has contributed significantly to the development and implementation of urban natural resource management frameworks and research initiatives, including the Forest Management Framework with Natural Areas Conservancy, Measuring Success – NNBF Monitoring Framework with the Urban Waters Federal Partnership, and an initial socio-ecological assessment of COVID’s effects on city parkland with the U.S. Federal Forest Service in collaboration with Columbia University’s Earth Institute. 

As the Climate Justice Hub Advocate at El Puente, Adán supports campaign and advocacy work as part of the Green Light District. An anti-gentrification/”placekeeping” initiative that deeply acknowledges and approaches community-led planning and development as a deeply intersectional, interconnected process that prioritizes investments in community over profit. What drives him to be engaged in this work is the belief that successfully combating the climate crisis is to start from the neighborhood up.

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