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Gwen Schantz

Founding Partner

Gwen is Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Brooklyn Grange, a renowned Urban Farming and Sustainable Design business founded in 2010 in New York City. She oversees the company’s Design, Installations and Consulting departments, and spearheads new projects and business development. She is a licensed General Contractor, and has unique expertise in the design and construction of green roofs, green walls and other vegetated installations.

Gwen spent much of her childhood in her parents’ western Massachusetts vegetable garden, and went on to work on small organic farms in New York State while she was a student at Vassar College. Her professional background is in international sustainable development and environmental program development, having worked in Phnom Penh, Cambodia for Pact International, and the Grace Communications Foundation in New York City. She is a co-founder of the Bushwick Food Cooperative and CSA as well as City Growers, a New York based food and farm education program for children and young adults. She has taught as an Adjunct Professor for Environmental Studies undergraduates at New York University and the New School.

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