Justine Heilner

Justine is a landscape architect and Capital Planning Manager at the New York State Canal Corporation and New York Power Authority. Her work focuses on transforming historic (yet still working) infrastructure into public-facing recreation space for the State of New York.

Along the way she is working with the teams that operate and manage the canal and trail systems to address improving biodiversity and sustainability through new approaches to vegetation management and land-use decision-making. Justine comes to this position from a career focusing on public-realm design and management in both the private and non-profit/public sector.