Board Member Appointed
Chair Shola Olatoye welcomed Zaire Z. Dinzey-Flores as NYCHA’s newly appointed Executive Board Member, effective December 23, 2015, at the Executive Board meeting held on that day. A scholar of housing policy and design, urban planning, and community inequality, Dr. Dinzey- Flores is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology and Latino & Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She has lectured and written extensively, including publishing an award-winning book titled Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City (University of Pennsylvania Press: 2013), looking at residential neighborhoods and public housing in Puerto Rico, the second largest housing authority under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
In reluctantly accepting the resignation of former Board Member Richard Baron, Chair Olatoye thanked Mr. Baron for his service and described him as a “constant source of information and support.”
