Jazmyn Michelle Blackburn

Hub Coordinator, CUNY

Research Teams Lead

Jazmyn Michelle Blackburn serves as the Hub Coordinator for the CUNY side of the partnership. Working alongside the Hub’s partner institution, the NYC Environmental Justice Alliance (NYC-EJA), Jazmyn Michelle manages, leads, and supports educational programming, engagement, and research related to the Hub’s efforts. Jazmyn Michelle is an urban planner from Canarsie, Brooklyn. She received a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in Sociology with a specialization in Urban Studies and a Master’s degree from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po Paris) in Urban Governance with a specialization in Urban Migration. Prior to joining the NYC Climate Justice Hub team, Jazmyn Michelle worked as a project coordinator at the Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center at CUNY City Tech and as an associate planner at the Regional Plan Association. In both of these roles, sheled research and published findings on topics ranging from health equity to capital infrastructure to sea level rise on local, regional, and national scales. In addition to working as an urban planner, Jazmyn Michelle has taught all ages (ranging from preschool to adult) as a classroom teacher and tutor for six years. She believes that teaching and learning exchanges are an essential part of neighborhood growth and community development. Outside of the urban environment, she enjoys spending time outdoors in other ecosystems, observing wildlife and studying animal behavior. In her free time, she fosters dogs from the municipal shelter.

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