
Lily Baum Pollans
Assistant Professor of Urban Policy and Planning
Hunter College
Lily Baum Pollans is assistant professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College in New York City. As an urban planner and scholar, she is interested in sustainability, infrastructure and environmental justice. As a practicing planner, she has worked in both municipal and institutional settings on public transportation, public space design and brownfield redevelopment. In her most recent contract, she collaborated with Boston-area sustainability professionals on a study of the jobs-development potential of companies that use recycled materials as inputs in manufacturing processes.