Karen A. Phillips, Commissioner

Karen A. Phillips was appointed to the New York City Planning Commission by Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum in July 2002. Ms. Phillips also provides professional consulting services in community development to private planning and development firms, community development corporations and municipalities. She is often a participant in discussions about urban issues while sharing her experience and expertise with graduate educational programs and community development professionals.

Ms. Phillips was one of the founders and, later, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC), a community-based, not-for-profit organizations which invested almost $200 million in the Harlem community under her leadership, creating over 1,000 units of housing, and fostering proposals for commercial projects.

Ms. Phillips received a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture Degree at the School of Environmental Design of University of Georgia and in 1982 graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, with a concentration in real estate development and urban planning. She also serves on the Fannie Mae North East Regional Office Housing and Community Development Advisory Board, the State Farm Bank Community Reinvestment Advisory Board, and the coordinating committee of New York 2050, a participatory visioning process for the metropolitan region.

MEMBERS of the CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
Amanda M. Burden, FAICP, Chair Kenneth J. Knuckles, Esq., Vice Chairman Angela M. Battaglia Rayann Besser Irwin G. Cantor, P.E. Alfred C. Cerullo, III Betty Y. Chen	Maria M. Del Toro Richard W. Eaddy Nathan Leventhal Anna Hayes Levin Shirley A. McRae Karen A. Phillips

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