Ethical Materials Director
Grace Farms Foundation
New Canaan, Connecticut
Nora serves as Grace Farms Foundation’s first Sustainable Materials Director. In this role she focuses on the recently launched Design for Freedom Movement which aims to eradicate modern slavery from the built environment by addressing the systemic use of forced labor in the building materials supply chain. Grace Farms is a humanitarian and cultural center with a mission to pursue peace through five initiatives - nature, arts, justice, community, and faith.
For more than 15 years, Nora has dedicated herself to creating change in the built environment through her sustainability, resiliency, and social equity work. Before joining Grace Farms, Nora spent over a decade as Director of Sustainability for Fusco Corporation in New Haven, CT.
As one of the first Ambassadors in the world to be accredited by the International Living Future Institute, she founded the CT Living Future Collaborative. Nora also co-chairs the bi-annual Northeast Summit for a Sustainable Built Environment (NESSBE) Conference. This multi-day convening of industry experts has had past themes of Health of Place, Equity of Place, and Power of Place.
Nora currently serves on the Board of Directors for the CT Green Building Council and was recently invited to serve on the Governor’s Council for Climate Change (GC3) Infrastructure and Land Use Adaptation Working Group.
Nora’s professional credentials include being a Certified Sustainability Manager, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, LFA, GPRO:CM.
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