REBNY and Coro New York Leadership Center name new REBNY fellows class

New York, NY The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), and Coro New York Leadership Center are celebrating the newest cohort of REBNY Fellows.

The REBNY Fellows Leadership Program brings in real estate professionals from diverse backgrounds for a six-month training program designed to help elevate their careers and prepare them for opportunities to increase their impact on the industry and its future. In addition to gaining networking exposure and civic leadership training, REBNY Fellows become part of a lifelong professional network that will support their continued success. This year’s program is supported in part by key sponsors including Fisher Brothers, Koeppel Rosen LLC and Webb & Brooker, Inc.

“REBNY is committed to cultivating diverse talent throughout the industry and ensuring that individuals of all backgrounds can access the resources they need to have successful, impactful careers,” said Yvonne Riley-Tepie, REBNY’s senior vice president of social impact. “We’re thrilled to welcome our new REBNY Fellows as this incredible program helps us work toward a future in which real estate industry leadership reflects the unparalleled diversity of our great city.”

“At Coro, we are working on building the next generation of diverse leaders who are ready to step up and make a change in New York City,” said Garrett Lucien, Coro’s vice president of programs & training. “More than ever, we need leaders who are ready to take on the biggest challenges we face, and we are proud to partner with REBNY to help us achieve that goal. It is going to take every sector of life in New York coming together to create a more inclusive and fair city and through this collaboration, we can help cultivate the leaders who will make it possible.”

The 2022 REBNY Fellows:

• Emarie Bohanon, sr. associate - debt capital markets, Tishman Speyer;
• Eduardo Fiallo, vice president, property management, Hines;
• Kathleen Meagher, commercial property assistant manager, The Durst Organization;
• Carla Giarrusso, senior project manager, Suffolk Construction;
• Kevelyn Guzman, chief operating officer, Coldwell Banker Warburg;
• Ericka Hernandez, vice president - insurance, Rudin Management;
• Brandon Joy, vice president, operations, Stonehenge;
• Patricia Leung, senior associate, Nuveen Real Estate;
• Anthony Migliore Jr., operations manager - Empire State Building, Empire State Realty Trust;
• Elizabeth Polanco, general manager, Gotham Organization;
• Hiro Sato, development manager, Lendlease;
• Zoe Skyy, associate broker, Keller Williams NYC;
• Kristina Tougas, project manager, CBRE; and
• Jaesung Yoon, associate, Hemsley Spear.

For more information on the new REBNY Fellows, please visit https://www.rebny.com/.

REBNY is dedicated to advancing efforts that help attract, retain, and advance women, people of color, and others from diverse backgrounds in the real estate industry. The REBNY Fellows Leadership Program was designed and launched in 2020 based on an overarching commitment by REBNY’s Diversity Committee to create new professional opportunities and take additional steps to increase diversity and inclusion throughout the real estate industry.

Beyond the REBNY Fellows Leadership Program, REBNY is actively engaged in other social impact programming, such as collaborating with the City University of New York and the non-profit Project Destined to provide paid internship opportunities to diverse CUNY undergraduate students. Additionally, REBNY partners with Building Skills NY to connect underemployed New Yorkers with jobs and training to create new career pathways into the construction industry, a partnership that has resulted in placing approximately 1,500 individuals from diverse backgrounds in construction jobs since 2016.