REBNY and Coro New York Leadership Center Announce 2025 Class of REBNY Fellows

23 Rising professionals to embark on premier six-month, high-impact leadership training program

NEW YORK, NY -The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the City's leading real estate trade association, and Coro New York Leadership Center, the City's premier civic leadership training program, are celebrating the newest cohort of REBNY Fellows. The first program of its kind for young real estate professionals of diverse backgrounds, 23 talented rising professionals in brokerage, development and other real estate fields have entered the program now in its fifth year.

The REBNY Fellows Leadership Program brings in real estate professionals from diverse backgrounds for a high-impact, 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 advocacy and civic leadership training, REBNY Fellows become part of a lifelong professional network that will support their continued success. Once accepted into the program, fellows' employers sponsor their participation costs, demonstrating the commitment of these businesses to a diverse workforce.

"Our industry has made significant strides to improve recruitment of young people from diverse backgrounds to real estate. This program seeks to build on that progress by offering professionals networking opportunities and skills training to thrive in leadership positions," said Yvonne Riley-Tepie, Ed.D, REBNY's Senior Vice President of Social Impact. "Diversity does not strictly relate to ethnicity but improving representation from a wide range of areas from gender to age to lived experience. We want to identify professionals who can offer unique perspective within our industry and help us better understand the City and communities we serve."

New this year, the program will include a capstone project exploring solutions to an issue impacting the real estate landscape outside of their current scope of work, which will be selected by REBNY's Diversity Committee. Fellows will present their project to their sponsors. The program also expanded its pools of fellows this year to include professionals at not-for-profit organizations that interact closely with the real estate industry. Program organizers remain focused on identifying experiential opportunities while giving fellows more latitude to share their areas of expertise with their cohort and sponsors.

The 2025 REBNY Fellows

• Andy Amato, Rudin Management Company

• Camden Brown, Suffolk Construction Company

• Jason Browne, Webb & Brooker Inc.

• Haon Chang, Cushman & Wakefield

• Alice Chen, GFP Real Estate

• Jennifer Clapp, Global Holdings Management Group

• Samantha Fernandez, The Durst Organization

• Krystina González, Hines

• Jade Granville, Rudin Management Company

• Tina Huang, AvalonBay Communities

• Imani Isaac, The Trust for Governors Island

• Mayra Juarez Gutierrez, Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking

• Ryan Kramer, Rose Associates

• Aixin Li, Breaking Ground

• Tiana Liriana, Greater Jamaica Development Corporation

• Rachel Morrison Montoya, Oxford Properties Group

• Ioannis (John) Nicolaou, The Durst Organization

• Seun Omotunde, Tishman Speyer

• John Pagnanella , Rose Associates

• Leah Pall, Greenberg Traurig, LLP

• Michaela Parker, REBNY

• Betty Perry, Related Affordable

• Shirley Zou, Two Trees Management

More information on the Fellows can be found here.

REBNY is committed 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 program was conceived and launched in 2020 based on an overarching initiative led by REBNY's Diversity Committee, which works to create professional opportunities and improve and promote the diversity of the trade association's membership and the real estate industry at large.

This past summer, REBNY partnered with the New York City Department of Youth & Community Development to place 138 talented young people in paid real estate industry internships at member firms through New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP). 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.

Interested participants for the next cohort can find more information on the program and fill out an interest form at www.rebny.com/rebny-fellows.

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