Senior Research Associate / Community Engagement Manager
Véronëque Ignace serves as the NYC FloodNet Community Engagement Manager based at the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay. As a Flatbush, Brooklyn native with a background in public health practice, community-based participatory research, and cultural activism, she develops and leads transdisciplinary community engagement efforts, rooted in social change and seeking to improve community health. Through applied public health practice in diverse space, she has stewarded strategic design and program planning and evaluation to facilitate growth, racial equity policies, an orientation toward socio-political community engagement at non-profits, grassroots groups, and larger arts institutions. She is an alum of Williams College and SUNY Downstate School of Public Health. She is currently a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health.
