Community Partnerships

How We Partner

Partnerships with community members who live, work, or go to school in our demonstration testbeds keep the Center's work focused on developing hyper-local streetscape technology that serves the public good.

Anchoring community partnerships in our Harlem testbed is Center's Community Partners in Residence (CPR) program. Through a series of learning and co-design workshops, the annual CPR program facilitates collaboration between our interdisciplinary research team and multiple spheres within the Harlem community.

Read more below about the Harlem program participants and updates.

Program Leads

Andrew Smyth

Andrew W. Smyth

Center Director & Principal Investigator; Professor of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University
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Barbara Askins

Senior Advisor & Co-Chair of Community Partners in Residence; President & CEO, 125th Street Business Improvement District, Upper Manhattan (Harlem), New York City
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Fernanda Martinez

Associate Director of Inclusive Programs
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CPR Cohort 2023-2024

Angela Dews

Retired (Aging in Place)
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Cicely Harris

NYC Community Board 10
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Curtis Archer

Harlem Community Development Corporation
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Dr. Lena Green

Hope Center
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Gus Chalkias

Helen Keller Services for the Blind
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Janet Rodriguez

SoHarlem
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Jessica Elliott

Manhattan Community Board 11
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Maxine Gillies

STRIVE
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NaTyna Arnold-Lockhart

Eagle Academy for Young Men of Harlem
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Shawn Brannon

NYC Manhattan Borough President's Office - Community Liaison CBs 9 & 10
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Walter T. Alexander

NYC Community Board 9
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Yonette Lewis

Harlem Independent Living Center
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