Amelia Zaino

EDUCATION COORDINATOR, BRONX RIVER ALLIANCE

Amelia Zaino, Education Coordinator at the Bronx River Alliance, is a GIS professional who specializes in using maps and images to tell the stories of our complex yet beautiful natural world. She holds a BA in Urban Studies from Fordham University and a master’s degree in Geographic Information Science from Lehman College. She has worked at Wave Hill, the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum, NYCH2O, and the NASA Ames Research Center in California and is a board member of the Hutchinson River Restoration Project. She has taught at Lehman College and LaGuardia Community College. Her earliest memories of City Island are of going to buy bait with her Grandpa at Jack’s and having dinner at Tony’s Pier with her family.