Laurie Reilly - CUNY making New York City a Solar City USA

Through Sustainable CUNY, Ms. Reilly directs communications for the CUNY Sustainability Project, CUNY Conserves Project, the U.S. Department of Energy NYC Solar America City Partnership, SunShot Rooftop Challenge I program, NYSolar Smart and CUNY SustainableWorks, CUNY’s commercialization program for clean and sustainable technology. Ms. Reilly also handles communications for the NYCleantech Collaborative, a member organization that works to accelerate the adoption of technologies designed for urban applications Reilly is the author of multiple key sustainability documents and grants and is responsible for coordinating and implementing internal and external sustainability communications across CUNY’s 24 academic institutions. Reilly executes the marketing strategy and assists with organizing major sustainable energy events and presents at numerous conferences.

In addition Ms. Reilly directs communications for the Sustainability Division for CUNY Ventures Inc., (CVI) and worked with Ms. Case to form the Smart Distributed Generation Hub.  Ms. Reilly spent 18 years as a broadcast journalist and won five New York State Broadcaster's Awards as a writer, producer and anchor for providing in depth coverage on science, technology, health and politics on both television and radio.