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Originally from northern Virginia, Erica Schneider has been with Parks and Trails New York since 2020 and is a policy and planning manager. Schneider has fallen in love with New York’s incredible network of public lands and is passionate about the transformative community impact of expanding access to parks and greenway trails. She brings experience … Continued

Christopher Alvarez is a Columbia University graduate and bilingual freelance journalist based in New York City. His work has appeared in The City, NBC Latino, New York Times, the Queens Daily Eagle and Able News.

Max White worked at The Post and Courier, South Carolina’s biggest newspaper, for two years before moving to New York. He loves urbanism, sports and movies. He joins Streetsblog as a winter associate in the Class of 2026.

James Rath is the executive director of Capital Streets, the Capital Region’s advocacy organization pushing for safer, more livable streets and a connected multimodal transportation network. Rath has worked as an urban planner in the public and private sectors on urban transportation, land use and downtown revitalization, with a focus on multimodal streetscape design.

Jeff Wood is the creator of the Talking Headways podcast and editor of the newsletter The Overhead Wire.

State Sen. Julia Salazar represents state Senate District 18, which includes Bushwick, Cypress Hills, East New York and parts of Ridgewood & Williamsburg.

Assembly Member Steven Raga represents Woodside, Elmhurst, East Elmhurst, Maspeth and Jackson Heights.

Naomi Hersson-Ringskog is an urban planner and president of The Fullerton, an organization focused on downtown revitalization in Newburgh.

Carson Carter is an urbanist, preservationist and a broker, specializing in historic buildings. He is president of the Newburgh Preservation Association and a commissioner for the Newburgh Architectural Review Commission, each focused on the protection and restoration of Newburgh’s remarkable historic cityscape.