Building Reporter Founder / CEO
Jerry has worked as a public health, environmental science and occupational health and safety professional for more than 40 years. He is a leading national expert on the issue of adequate building conditions and school facilities.
He works at the local, state and national levels on deficient school facility conditions, the impacts of structural underfunding of capital improvement on school infrastructure, and the risks to stakeholders on school conditions and potential exposures to hazardous environmental contaminants including asbestos, lead in water and paint, air quality, mold, and rodent/pest intrusion and other issues related to conditions and systems. He has provided expert advising to unions, elected officials, journalists, school district facility managers and leaders, parent groups, and community organizations on the scope and scale of issues and provides recommendations for practical, implementable, cost-effective, protective standards and solutions to the problems posed by deteriorated school infrastructure.
He has also served as an expert in legal issues related to school conditions. Jerry created the “Healthy Schools Tracker” - an app that allows stakeholders to document conditions.He serves as the Acting Director of Environmental Science and Occupational Safety & Health for the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Union and Health & Welfare Fund and has served as a long-time technical advisor to the American Federation of Teachers.
He is a current Board Member for the 21st Century School Fund.
Jerry provides consulting, speaking, and coaching services to bring awareness to the state of building conditions, and what to do about it in an engaging and informative manner.
For all hiring Jerry inquiries, please contact us.
Building Reporter Sr. Director of Advanced Applications
Sr. Director of Advanced Applications Engineering, responsible for the development of mobile applications for IOS and Android platforms at Comcast. Sean has twenty [20] years of experience in the development of software engineering and architecture with a major focus on mobile applications and interactive media technologies. He has been instrumental in the ongoing development of our crowd-sourcing, citizen-science platforms and he has a very direct and practical interest in public school condition improvements especially because he has 3 children currently attending Philadelphia public schools.
Building Reporter Managing Partner
Neil Roseman, Technology Consultant & Technologist in Residence for a Summit Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Neil, was the former VP of Engineering at Amazon.com [1998-2007] and served in the same capacity at Zynga and he was also the CEO of Evri.com. Neil was responsible for the development and building of large-scale data collection and associated technology systems at Amazon.Com and Target Corp. among others.
Building Reporter Advisor
Liat received her Ph.D. from the School of Education at the Hebrew University where she has studied learning contexts that promote versus hamper children’s motivation to learn. She is currently working as a Developmental Psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania. Her current research focuses on the effects of toxic stressful environments on children’s mental and physical development.
Building Reporter Advisor
Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Turin is a visiting scholar in the Department of Computer Science Database Group and is a “Post Doc” at Drexel Univ., He is a software engineer and computer scientist with extensive experience in data science and practical experience on commercial projects (back-end, front-end, web, mobile, Java…) and strong visualization skills.
Building Reporter Advisor
Assistant Professor at the Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Hershberg will contributing invaluable experience, and expertise to our approaches for organizing, collecting, aggregating and analyzing large data sets of relating information about the health/biological impacts of identified building/environmental condition deficiencies.
Building Reporter Advisor
Australia. Dr. Lahiji is an Associate Professor and the editor of Architecture Against the Post-Political: Re-claiming the Critical Project (Routledge, 2014). Nadir is working with us to more deeply examine the role that building design, construction, operation and condition has on educational opportunity, academic achievement, social justice and equity.
Building Reporter Advisor
Australia. Dr. Lahiji is an Associate Professor and the editor of Architecture Against the Post-Political: Re-claiming the Critical Project (Routledge, 2014). Nadir is working with us to more deeply examine the role that building design, construction, operation and condition has on educational opportunity, academic achievement, social justice and equity.
