GWC’S STAFF
Omar Freilla, M.Env.Sci Team Coordinator & Founder Omar received his academic education through a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from Miami University; a B.S. from Morehouse College (where he founded the organization, Black Men for the Eradication of Sexism); the Bronx High School of Science; and a few underfunded and marginalized South Bronx public schools you never heard of. His education in life has come primarily from being an active part of numerous social justice movements and organizations since he was fifteen years old. Omar is a recipient of the inaugural Jane Jacobs Medal for New Ideas and Activism.
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Green Worker Cooperatives Staff:
Tylea Richard, M.A., Operations Coordinator
Sonia Pichardo, Ph.D. Communications Coordinator
Tylea Richard is the newest member of the GWC team. She is currently working as the Operations Coordinator after coordinating GWC's Co-op Academy training program for two semesters. She comes to GWC with experience in the nonprofit sector, in the labor movement, as well as the private sector. Tylea's special interest focuses on worker cooperatives in the fashion industry. Tylea holds a M.A. in Business and Labor Studies from New York University, where she was also a Catherine Reynolds fellow for Social Entrepreneurship. She received a BA in Public and Community Service Studies from Providence College.
Sonia is the Communications and incoming Training Coordinator of Green Worker Cooperatives. She is involved with the Green Worker Coop Academy, which has trained our first coop, ReBuilders Source. Sonia received a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Spelman College and Ph.D from University of MissouriColumbia. Her professional background is as a physiologist, teaching biology at Bronx Community College and Manhattan College. She is a board member of the Green City Challenge and sits on advisory boards for Samuel Gompers High School and BMCC. Her early education was completed in the Bronx at Holy Rosary and at The Bronx High School of Science. She lives in the Bronx.