Jennifer Senick is an
experienced urban planner and was trained in Political Science,
Economics and Public Policy from Bowdoin College, the University of
California, Los Angeles and the Rand Corporation (BA, MA, ABD). She is also the Executive
Director of the Rutgers Center for Green Building at the Edward J.
Bloustein School of Urban Planning and Policy Development, Rutgers
University and an occasional lecturer in the department in such areas as Urban
Economics, Environmental Planning and Green Building. Ms. Senick’s research interests include sustainable development and green building; she specializes in the areas of Building Life Cycle Analysis, Building Performance Evaluation and Occupancy Survey research. A resident of Highland Park, New Jersey Ms. Senick served as a Commissioner of the Borough’s Redevelopment Agency from 2004-2008 and is a member of the Borough’s Green Community Working Group. She is a graduate of the 2004 class of Leadership New Jersey, co-founder of the New Jersey State League of Municipalities’ Mayors Committee for a Green Future and serves as an Advisor to the New Jersey Chapter of the US Green Building Council, the NJ NAIOP Energy Master Plan Taskforce, and as a juror on the NJ Smart Growth Alliance. She is also an editorial board member of Brownfield News & Sustainability Report and a steering committee member of the Database for Analyzing Sustainable High Performance Buildings (DASH) initiative of the Green Building Alliance.