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Richard Simon
Richard Simon is currently the Deputy Director of New York City’s Urban Park Rangers, a division of the NYC Parks. He joined NYC Parks in 1998 as an Urban Park Ranger, and has over eighteen years of exceptional experience in program management, environmental stewardship, policy development, and proven leadership in the public sector. Currently Richard works on projects as diverse as coordinating a multi-agency management plan to address the rise in the NYC’s coyote and deer population, to restructuring the Urban Park Ranger’s award winning Outdoor Adventure programs, to creating a media strategy to raise the public profile of the Ranger division. Richard graduated from CUNY’s College of Staten Island in 1995 with a degree in Political Science and studied Urban Wildlife Management with Texas A&M University. Richard received his Executive Master’s degree in Public Administration from Baruch College in 2012.