Roland Lewis is president and CEO of the Waterfront Alliance, a coalition of more than 1,000 organizations with ties to our regional waterways. Prior to taking the helm of the Waterfront Alliance in 2007, he served as a partner in the law firm of Dellapa, Lewis, and Perseo before serving as executive director of Habitat for Humanity New York City for ten years, guiding it to become one of the top producers in the region and a nationally emulated model for Habitat for Humanity locations in other urban settings. A lifetime New Yorker, Roland is a graduate of Columbia University and earned both a Master of City and Regional Planning and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers University.