NYCHA CEO Receives Award from Women Builders Council
For 20 years, the Women Builders Council (WBC) has been supporting women and minorities in the building industry, providing resources to help them grow professionally. On October 17, at its annual awards gala, the association put a spotlight on the many partners helping to make a difference in a traditionally male-dominated industry. One of those honored was NYCHA’s Chief Executive Officer, Lisa Bova-Hiatt, who received the WBC’s Public Leadership Excellence Award.
Ms. Bova-Hiatt was presented the award by Vicki Been, a law professor at the NYU School of Law who formerly served as Deputy Mayor of Housing and Economic Development as well as Commissioner of the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Ms. Been praised Ms. Bova-Hiatt’s character and career, saying: “It is such an honor to present [this award] to one of the most visionary, effective, and wonderful women that I have had the pleasure of working with and learning from. At NYCHA, she has been critical to the transformation of the agency [and has] helped NYCHA to become much better managed, better resourced, more compassionate, and more opportunity rich for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers. [NYCHA’s transformation efforts] have inspired public housing authorities around the country to think bigger, to think better, to try harder to bring our public housing system back to where it should be…Lisa is a deeply caring, committed, and kind human being – if only the world were made out of so many more Lisas!”
In accepting her award, Ms. Bova-Hiatt affirmed the efforts of her colleagues in helping to make progress at NYCHA, saying: “At NYCHA, supporting residents through transformed homes and transformative opportunities is at the heart of our mission. And so we are hard at work making our precious resource of affordable housing a better place to live for residents. NYCHA has served our city for nearly a century, and we want to make sure it will be here to serve the generations to come.”
Photos courtesy of the Women Builders Council
