Scott Grimm-Lyon

Global Transition Program Assistant & Media Coordinator
 
Scott Grimm-Lyon  is a staff member working on the Global Transition Project. He has a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Scott has  worked with a youth based community group in the South Bronx to find ways of connecting their neighborhood with a proposed greenway, with a Business Improvement District in Central Brooklyn to make recommendations improving urban design along a retail corridor, and with a community coalition in North Brooklyn to create a citizen based vision to act as an alternative to an unpopular rezoning proposal. He has also studied sustainable development projects in Germany.
In his work as a community organizer for affordable housing on Long Island, Scott helped faith based coalitions lobby the New York State Senate to pass a bill requiring 10% affordability on all new construction developments. He also worked with The Center for Urban Pedagogy and the Queens Museum to set up an exhibit about the mortgage crisis and to develop a Foreclosure Survival Guide to be used in community education efforts throughout Queens.
Scott has a long relationship with Heifer International and served as an Americorps volunteer at their Overlook Farm in Rutland Massachusetts, where he led workshops discussing global poverty and sustainable international development.  He grew up on Long Island and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife Jessica.