WHEN AND WHERE
DATE: Thursday, October 23, 2025
TIME: 5:00 PM – 7:30 PM EST
SITE TOUR MEETING POINT: Hunter’s Point South Waterfront, 50th Avenue and Center Blvd, Queens, New York
PANEL DISCUSSION: Hunter’s Point Library, 47-40 Center Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11109
With generous sponsorship from SILC and the Waterfront Alliance, we’re pleased to offer this event free of charge to all attendees.
ABOUT THIS PROGRAM
SILC (Sustainability Investment Leadership Council) is partnering with the Waterfront Alliance for an exclusive convening on October 23, 2025, at Hunter’s Point — NYC’s flagship WEDG-certified waterfront.
This cross-sector event will bring together leaders from finance, insurance, architecture, law, government, and more to explore how resilient design, equity-driven planning, and innovative financing are shaping sustainable, investable waterfronts.
Highlights include a guided tour of the WEDG-certified site — focused on resilience, ecology, and access — and a high-level panel on how design standards can drive investment, reduce risk, and deliver lasting returns.
SCHEDULE
- SITE TOUR 5:00 – 6:00 PM: Hunter’s Point South Waterfront, Long Island City, NY – A one mile tour of NYC’s flagship WEDG-Certified waterfront project (View Map of Site)
- Nearest Subway: 7 Train – Vernon Blvd / Jackson Ave
- Site Tour Meeting Spot: 50th Ave & Center Blvd
- PANEL DISCUSSION 6:00 – 6:50 PM: Hunter’s Point Library, 47-40 Center Blvd, Long Island City, NY 11109
- NETWORKING 6:50 – 7:30 PM: Meet with panelists and attendees from across sectors to share ideas (food and non-alcoholic beverages will be served)
PANELISTS
CO-MODERATOR
Mohita Sinha,
Education Co-Chair, Sustainability Investment Leadership Council (SILC)
Mohita Sinha serves as the Co-Chair of SILC’s Education Committee. With extensive experience leading complex finance and risk regulatory reporting transformations at global financial institutions, Mohita helps organizations evolve from voluntary action to regulatory compliance to true value creation. Her current focus is on climate risk integration, guiding companies to understand, operationalize, and embed risk considerations into business strategy while meeting compliance requirements.
She is the Board Chair of the Lower East Side Ecology Center, a nonprofit advancing circular economy and urban sustainability through composting, recycling, stewardship, and food justice programs.
Mohita holds climate risk certifications from the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) in Sustainability and Climate Risk, the CSRD Institute, and the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). She earned an MBA in Business Economics and a BBA in Finance and Economics.
CO-MODERATOR
Jessica Moon,
Education Co-Chair, Sustainability Investment Leadership Council (SILC)
Jessica Moon is a strategic sustainability leader and educator who bridges finance, design, and policy to advance actionable strategies for resilience and systems change. As Education Co-Chair of the Sustainability Investment Leadership Council (SILC), she designs and moderates cross-sector dialogues that bring together leaders from finance, law, infrastructure, and corporate sustainability to explore how standards and innovation can unlock long-term value.
She founded Scholastic Inc.’s first ESG and Sustainability function and combines legal acumen with systems thinking to help organizations integrate sustainability into core strategy. Jessica is a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional, WEDG Professional, and TRUE Advisor.
Joseph Sutkowi,
Chief Waterfront Design Officer
Waterfront Alliance
Joseph Sutkowi, WEDG, is the Chief Waterfront Design Officer at the Waterfront Alliance. Joseph leads the WEDG® (Waterfront Edge Design Guidelines) program and oversees Waterfront Alliance’s resilience planning project in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. He brings significant experience in ports, offshore wind, climate resilience planning, economic development policy, and infrastructure. Previously, Joseph was a senior consultant at Karp Strategies, a New York City-based urban planning and economic development consulting firm where he led projects in infrastructure, real estate development, and sustainability. In previous roles, Joseph worked with Living Cities on equitable procurement, a New York City Council member on transportation, the American Red Cross in disaster response operations, and the University of Michigan in foundation relations.
Chi Chi Truong,
Senior Civil Engineer,
Arup
With over 16 years of experience in land development, Chi Chi is a leader in civil engineering and resilient infrastructure design, known for his holistic, progressive approaches. He combines technical excellence with a deep commitment to sustainability, climate adaptation, and social justice. His expertise spans all aspects of site development with a passion for stormwater management and coastal resiliency. Chi Chi’s designs aim to safeguard communities, particularly disadvantaged communities, against future environmental challenges.
Chi Chi has led multidisciplinary teams through every phase of the project lifecycle, from due diligence and master planning through full engineering design and construction. His collaborative leadership style and ability to navigate complex regulatory frameworks have earned him the trust of clients across the public and private sectors.
His portfolio includes high-impact, transformative projects such as the Rue Vendome Pedestrian Plaza (Miami Beach, FL), West Avenue Neighborhood Resiliency Redevelopment (Miami Beach, FL), the NYCHA Red Hook Sandy Recovery Project (Brooklyn, NY), and NYCDEP Green Infrastructure – Housing (Brooklyn, NY) where he turns climate risks and challenges into lasting community solutions.
Bonnie A. Harken, AIA, WEDG,
President,
Nautilus International Development Consulting
Bonnie A. Harken, AIA, WEDG is President of Nautilus International Development Consulting, a multi-disciplinary firm which helps transform cities by consulting about strategies for planning and implementing successful, sustainable developments. Founded in 2003 with a special strength in resilient urban waterfronts, Nautilus International has worked in over 25 countries. Ms. Harken is an internationally recognized expert in sustainable waterfront revitalization and downtown development, speaking widely to groups like the World Water Forum and World Bank.
In Hunters Point, Ms. Harken has been advising coalitions of local community groups since the early 1990s. Currently, Nautilus International is consulting with the Long Island City Coalition and Hunters Point Community Coalition whose community-based Hunters Point North: Vision Plan for Resiliency has just been selected as a winner of 2025 NYS Climate Innovation & Adaptation Award by a collaboration convened by Rebuild By Design and other climate organizations. Recently, Nautilus International also provided services in urban design and sustainable waterfront development as part of the AECOM team on the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, including the recently re-opened and WEDG-verified Wagner Park.
Ms. Harken teaches a graduate seminar at NYU in the Schack Institute for Real Estate. Her work has won numerous awards for design excellence as well as meritorious service to the profession. Ms. Harken grew up in Asia and Latin America, studied environmental design at Parsons School of Design, real estate finance at NYU, and holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.
Eugene Karl Montoya A.,
Director, Originations & Client Engagement
Howden Re, Climate Risk & Resilience Americas
Eugene Karl Montoya is a senior climate risk & climate finance expert positioned within Howden Group’s Climate Risk & Resilience team to generate innovative ideas for insurance, reinsurance, and climate solutions de-risking. His role involves originating new business on the advisory and broking sides of Howden Group which offer methods for clients to de-risk investments, protect assets and revenues in the pursuit of sustainable profits, and think about the next generation of insurance and financial products to meet mitigation, adaptation and resilience goals. Eugene also leads the company’s thought leadership in emergent areas of sustainable finance such as blue bonds and blue loans.
Prior to Howden, he developed sizeable experiences with Wells Fargo & Company’s Sustainability and CFO groups, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the United Nations World Food Programme (African Risk Capacity), a global macro hedge fund in Bermuda, a boutique investment bank in Germany, and private wealth management with Merrill Lynch & Co.