Noah Budnick
Revson Fellow 2008-2009
Deputy Director
Transportation Alternatives
Noah Budnick is Deputy Director at Transportation Alternatives, New York City’s advocate for bicycling, walking and mass transit. He works with community and advocacy groups for “complete streets” —roads safe and convenient for bikers, walkers, transit riders and drivers—and for parks, public space and policy initiatives that invite these modes of city-friendly, healthy, green transportation. Noah is a founding member of Greene Acres community garden in Brooklyn. He also chairs the board of directors of the Thunderhead Alliance and serves on the boards of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and the City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization.
The Revson year was an opportunity to recharge mental and spiritual batteries, to deepen my own understanding of important issues at what turned out to be a crucial time in our history, and to do so in the company of committed co-conspirators in the quest for peace and justice. It brings the enormous resources of a great university to the Fellows and time to reflect on how we can best utilize that knowledge to make a better New York City and world.
