Name: Oluwajuwon Filani
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?[:: :
On Monday, the 31th of January our group was honored to meet with Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar. Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar is an export at NYC Dept of Design and Construction, leading their Green Infrastructure and Sustainable/Resilient Infra Program. We asked many questions like different types of water pollution, how climate change affecting the water cycle, and what are some solutions to water pollution which then helps climate change. She was very nice and informed us with her wisdom about sewage water and storms and was very cooperative.
Sofia Zuberbuhler-Yafar is a mother of a student in our school. She is a graduate degree in Urban Design and over 19 years of experience architecture. including urban planning with the NYC Department of City Planning and landscape architecture design in the private realm. This issue is really important to her and us and we were so happy to interview her on zoom.
