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Professor Been, a member of the Board since October 4, 2022, is the Judge Edward Weinfeld Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, an Affiliated Professor of Public Policy of the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and a Faculty Director of NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy. Professor Been returned to NYU following public service as Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development for the City of New York and Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development.

Professor Been, who has been on the faculty at NYU since 1990, focuses her scholarship on the intersection of land use, urban policy and housing. Professor Been has done extensive research on New York City’s land use patterns, inclusionary zoning, historic preservation, the interplay of community benefit agreements with land use practices, and on a variety of affordable housing and land use policies, including gentrification, mortgage foreclosure, racial and economic integration, and the effects of supportive housing developments on their neighbors. Professor Been also writes about environmental justice, the Fifth Amendment prohibition against the taking of property without just compensation, and international protections for property owners. Professor Been is the also the co-author of a leading land use casebook, Land Use Controls.

Professor Been holds a bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University and is a graduate of the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar. She clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the Southern District of New York and for Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Terryl Brown was named Vice President and General Counsel at St. John's University in July 2025. She previously held the same role at Pace University. Prior to taking her position at Pace, Brown served as Deputy Commissioner of Legal Affairs and Administration for the New York City Fire Department, where she oversaw operations and legal matters for a department comprised of 17,000 employees. Brown has also been Chief Ethics Officer and Counsel with the New York State Attorney General’s Office, Acting Counsel to Governor David Paterson, First Assistant Counsel to Governor Eliot Spitzer, a Commissioner of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at the New York Power Authority, and a Partner at Harris Beach PLLC.

Brown graduated from Pace University with a bachelor’s degree in political science; earned a master’s from Villanova University; and a J.D. and M.B.A. from University of Pittsburgh. She completed an advanced finance program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Born in East Harlem, raised in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and a longtime resident of The Bronx, Cindy Estrada is the Executive Director at the New York City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a position created in 2015. She had previously held the position of vice president since its origin in 2006.

Estrada started in business in 1972 as the owner of a women’s designer boutique, which she followed by founding Woop’s Manufacturing in 1979 where she produced children’s Olympic sweaters for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. Estrada worked in the travel business with Nick Lugo Travel since 1988, first as Vice President, Corporate Travel Services, and later as Partner and finally as a consultant. In addition, Estrada has been active with Somos El Futuro since 1987.

Marion Phillips, III is the Sr. VP at New DN for Community Development. He previously was the Senior Vice President for Community Development and DEI at U.S. News & World Report and served as the Senior Vice President of Community Relations at New York State’s Empire State Development, managing development projects that included serving as the Chair of Queens West Development Corporation, President of the Atlantic Yards Community Development Corporation and Chief Administrative Officer of the New York Empowerment Zone Corporation. In addition, Phillips oversaw the Harlem Community Development Corporation as well as its Community Affairs department. Phillips earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mass Communications from Lamar University and a Master of Divinity from New York Theological Seminary.

Greg Reimers is a retired real estate finance executive who recently completed a long real estate banking career as a Managing Director and Market Manager at JPMorgan Chase. He previously served as an Executive Vice President at The Bank of New York. In each role he was responsible for managing large teams of real estate professionals who provided the Bank’s real estate clients with commercial banking services and real estate related credit.

He is a 1983 graduate of Villanova University, holding a bachelor’s in economics.

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