Name: Tristan Goris

Social Justice Group: 2021-2022, Water Pollution and Climate Change

Date of Fieldwork: January 31, 2022

Name of Organization and person (people) with whom you met and their title(s):Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar

Type of Fieldwork: Interview

What I did and what I learned about my topic, activism, social justice work or civil and human rights work from this fieldwork?[:: :

We met with Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar, architect for the city and green infrastructure. Sofía Zuberbühler-Yafar is Program Director for the Sustainable Infrastructure Unit with the New York City Department of Design and Construction. She is important to our topic because she provided a lot of information regarding sewage problems in NYC and how green infrastructure and sustainability is the future of our society, and how it can save our water, and work toward the slow of Climate Change.
She has over 19 years of experience in Urban Design and was able to inform us of the city’s measures to combat water pollution through water basins, and other ways to save energy during rainstorms and through more Eco-friendly farming.