Staff
Roland Lewis, President and CEO
Cortney Worrall, Chief Operating Officer
Kelley Cunningham, Development Manager
Louis Kleinman, Outreach Coordinator & Alliance Partner Liaison
Becky Schneider, Program Associate
Lindsey Langenburg, Communications Associate
Andy Krochalk, Office Manager
Roland Lewis, President and CEO
rlewis[at]waterfrontalliance.org
A lifetime New Yorker, Roland Lewis has worked in the field of community development since 1984, when he began as a program associate at the Trust for Public Land. A graduate of Columbia University, he then went on to earn a Masters of City and Regional Planning and a Juris Doctor from Rutgers University in 1988. This was followed by nine years as a partner in the law firm of Dellapa, Lewis, and Perseo, whose clients included not-for-profit corporations, civic groups, churches, cooperative corporations, and private real estate developers. Starting in 1997 Roland became the Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity - NYC. Roland led the organization for ten years, guiding it to become one of the top producers in the region and a nationally emulated model of Habitat urban success.
In the spring of 2007, Roland took the helm of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to making the New York and New Jersey harbor and waterways accessible, healthy and vibrant. Under his leadership, the MWA has organized a growing consistency for a better waterfront, instituted new programs to provide water access and become the leading waterfront policy organization in the New York region.
In addition to his professional experience with community development, Roland has also been active with many non-profit community organizations. He served as Co-Chair of Housing First! and is now on the board of the New York Foundation. Roland also currently serves as Co-Chair of the Harbor Estuary Program Citizens Advisory Committee and serves on the Freight and Maritime Advisory Board of the Center for Advanced Infrastructure & Transportation at Rutgers Univeristy, the Professional Advisory Committee for the New York Harbor School, Hudson River Park Trust Advisory Council and the New York City Waterfront Management Advisory Board.
Cortney Worrall, Chief Operating Officer cworrall[at]waterfrontalliance.org
Cortney has worked in the water-related, environmental field for over 16 years. Starting her career as an environmental specialist in engineering consulting, she directed a 50-state Phase I, NPDES storm water compliance program for the trucking industry. Cortney later became a consultant to the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, where she formed the Appoquinimink River Association, a watershed organization charged with protecting Delaware’s most rapidly developing watershed.
After moving to New York City, Cortney became program associate at the New York – New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program where she formed the HEP Public Access Workgroup and developed a community outreach program and decision tool for the program’s workgroups and Citizens Advisory Committee. Cortney went on to serve as Executive Director of the Coastal Marine Resource Center in Brooklyn, spearheading beach clean-up programs at Jamaica Bay National Recreation Area, starting the first public seining programs on the beach under the Manhattan Bridge, and developing a pilot horseshoe crab conservation program.
Starting in 2009 Cortney served as MWA’s Director of Programs establishing a hallmark program to reform waterfront permitting, facilitating public input to New York City’s Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, and directing MWA’s annual City of Water Day. Cortney now serves as MWA’s first Chief Operating Officer responsible for all operations and programs of the association. Cortney holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental policy from Mount Holyoke College and a master’s degree in public administration specializing in alternative finance methods for watershed protection from Columbia University
Kelley Cunningham, Development Manager kcunningham[at]waterfrontalliance.org
In October 2011, Kelley joined MWA as Development Manager after spending six years at Oceana, an international organization dedicated solely to protecting and preserving the world’s oceans. Kelley served as Oceana’s Corporate Project Manager and garnered extensive experience in event planning; corporate and foundation fundraising; and the administration of major gift programs in the various positions she held in Oceana’s Development Department. Previously, Kelley served in the Development Department at the National Parks Conservation Association and earned her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College.
Louis Kleinman, Outreach Coordinator & Alliance Partner Liaison lkleinman[at]waterfrontalliance.org
Louis joined MWA, originally aiding in the coordination of City of Water Day and assumed added responsibilities as indicated. He is an environmental and preservation activist with a Masters degree in international trade, and has substantial commercial experience in that field.
Please send event calendar notices to Louis for inclusion in the MWA 'Calendar of Events'. Also send to Louis your group or organization's information in order to become registered as a 'Partner' on the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance website.
Becky Schneider, Program Associate bschneider[at]waterfrontalliance.org
Becky joined MWA as a program associate in August 2010. At MWA, Becky manages the Community Eco Dock program as well as MWA’s annual events including the City of Water Day Festival and the Waterfront Conference. She is the event director for City of Water Day activities at Liberty State Park. Becky helped facilitate the public input process for the update of New York City’s Comprehensive Waterfront Plan in 2010, in addition to assisting in the planning of MWA’s Task Force meetings each year.
Over the past few years, she has provided research and program assistance on a variety of environmental topics, from energy efficiency to habitat restoration to cellulosic biofuels development in the Midwest. Previously, she interned with the Great Plains Institute in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she worked on a community-wide energy efficiency project.
In 2009, Becky received her B.A. in environmental studies from Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Lindsey Langenburg, Communications Associate llangenburg[at]waterfrontalliance.org 
Lindsey joined MWA in 2011, first as a programs intern and then as communications associate. She has worked in participatory design of public spaces with Quennell Rothschild & Partners and City College Architectural Center. In 2010, Lindsey received a B.S. in Landscape Architecture and a B.S. in Urban & Regional Studies from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Andy Krochalk, Office Manager
akrochalk[at]waterfrontalliance.org
Andy comes to MWA with a rich history of not for profit service, starting with a stint with Peace Corps Bolivia and work at organizations such as Liberty Humane Society, the World Bank institute, and State of the World Forum. At most of these offices Andy performed a variety of duties and is no stranger to the critical administrative work necessary to keep an enterprise like the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance moving forward. Andy has strong interest in environmental issues and is very enthusiastic about the mission of the MWA. In his spare time, he reads and continues to volunteer in the animal welfare field.
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