Meet the Team

  • Colin M. Cathcart

    PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Colin Cathcart’s specialization is Architecture, Environmental Design, and Urbanism. He has many successful green projects, including: Stuyvesant Cove Environmental Learning Center (2010), Pitt Street Residence on Houston Street, New York (2008), Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in Newark, NJ (2002), New Museum of Contemporary Art in Soho, New York City (1997), feasibility and urban planning studies for the Regional Plan Association, Photovoltaic production facilities for Chronar Corporation in New York and Alabama, and numerous private lofts and houses in New York and Canada.

  • Lonnie Coplen

    DIRECTOR

    Lonnie’s executive, program and project management experience spans the public, private and non-profit sectors in transportation, environment energy, industrial, residential, and commercial practice areas. Her expertise includes engineering, planning and construction management, strategic planning, life cycle asset management, risk management and mitigation, at-risk construction, advocacy and education programs, policy development and implementation, and multi-media communications.

  • Widney Brown

    DIRECTOR

    Widney Brown is a human rights lawyer, advocate and activist and works on a full range of human rights issues. Widney Brown oversees Physicians for Human Rights’ research, investigations, monitoring and evaluation, documentation, advocacy, and capacity-building projects.

  • Sandra McKee

    DIRECTOR

    Sandra McKee FAIA is a graduate of the University of Waterloo. She is an adviser at the department of visual art at Fordham University, and a visiting critic at architectural and interior design schools including Colombia University, Pratt Institute, and City Tech. She is a registered architect in New York State and Nevada.

  • Carlos Tejeda

    DIRECTOR

    Carlos Tejeda is a graduate of Architecture at the Cooper Union School of Architecture. He has designed and installed interiors for museum exhibitions, restaurants, and even residential interiors in Brooklyn. Carlos has just completed a Passive House in Cragsmoor, NY and is presently engaged on a tiny house project nearby.