Marnie Davidoff is the Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Children, Youth and Families of the Division of Mental Hygiene (DMH) at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH). The Bureau of Children, Youth and Families works to strengthen the mental health and social emotional well-being of children and youth in NYC through policy, planning, research, health prevention and promotion, and program development and oversight. Since joining the Division of Mental Hygiene in 2004, she has also served as the Director of a Divisional Office of Policy and of the Office of Policy and Planning in the Bureau of Children, Youth and Families. Prior to joining the NYC DOHMH, Marnie worked at the International Rescue Committee, where she provided programmatic support to domestic and international programs for refugees. She also served as a Program Coordinator at the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Moira O’Neill is an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Urban Community Health Equity Lab and Columbia Law’s Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She holds additional academic appointments as a Senior Research Fellow at BerkeleyLaw’s Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment and in the Institute of Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley. Moira’s research is at the intersection of city planning and local government law. Her current projects explore the local regulation of land to increase public benefits, broadly. She is the Principal Investigator of a study that explores how local and state land use regulations interact to slow or accelerate equitable infill development and of another study that explores sustainable school meal reform. Her research and teaching build on more than a decade of professional experience in legal practice and consulting for public entities.