Bettina Damiani
Revson Fellow 2006-2007
Project Director
Good Jobs New York (GJNY)
Bettina Damiani is the Project Director at Good Jobs New York (GJNY), which promotes policies that hold government officials and corporations accountable to the taxpayers in New York City. Bettina has worked to bring more transparency and public participation to the allocation of subsidies to large economic development projects including the rebuilding of the World Trade Center Site and the proposed new Yankee Stadium in the South Bronx. She is also a founder of the Liberty Bond Housing Coalition, which advocated for the use of post-September 11th financing to create affordable housing for middle- and low-income New Yorkers.
More than anything that Columbia had to offer, I feel that I’ve lived 9 new lives vicariously through the 9 other fellows. These are the 9 lives struggling and working for the City, while I was too, that I never knew about. My horizon has been broadened through which I would never have gotten in my classrooms.
[Robin is a Master’s degree candidate at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and the Mailman School of Public Health.]
