Kathleen (Katie) Schmid

Katie serves as Deputy Executive Director at the New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice (MOCEJ), where she leads the Resilient & Efficient Buildings, Clean Energy, and Operations teams. Before joining MOCEJ, she served as Senior Director for Strategic Planning in the Division of Energy Management at the City’s Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS), where she led policy, strategic communications, and compliance supporting the City’s work to decarbonize its assets and operation and catalyze the development of clean energy infrastructure serving New York City. 

Prior to her tenure at DCAS, Katie served as Deputy Director for Program Coordination and Delivery at the former Mayor’s Office of Climate Resiliency and subsequently MOCEJ, and as senior counsel in the Environmental Division of the New York City Law Department, where she represented and advised City agencies in environmental and climate litigation and special projects.  

After graduating from law school at NYU, she clerked for US Magistrate Judge Michael H. Dolinger in the Southern District of New York, and worked at WeRecycle!, an electronics recycling company, as its environmental manager.  

Before completing her law degree, she was the legislative policy analyst for the NYC Council Committees on Waterfronts and on Transportation. Katie also founded The Newtown Creek Alliance in 2003, which she continued to direct until 2012, and teaches a course in municipal environmental law at Fordham Law School.