Amy Motzny

Amy Motzny is a landscape planner, designer, and water resource specialist with more than 15 years of professional experience working in water resource management across public, private, and non-profit sectors. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor for Pratt’s Sustainable Environmental Systems (SES) program where she teaches courses in sustainable planning, green infrastructure design, and water quality management. She is currently the Director of Integrated Water Management at the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) where she leads sustainability, resiliency, and integrated planning initiatives. Her portfolio includes project management for the Tibbetts Brook Daylighting & Greenway project in the Bronx; planning, design, and public engagement for Green Infrastructure and Cloudburst Resiliency programs; and oversight of NYC’s Water Demand Management Program to promote water conservation through municipal partnerships, innovative pilot projects, and water reuse incentives. 

Amy is passionate about data-driven solutions for regionally adaptive design, regulatory innovation, and equitable community growth. She brings deep expertise in participatory planning and environmental advocacy to support community capacity building for climate adaptation. In her previous role as Watershed Senior Planner with the Gowanus Canal Conservancy, she led efforts around the development of a community-based master plan to facilitate improved water quality and a more resilient, vibrant, open space network centered on the Gowanus Canal and throughout the broader Watershed. Throughout her career, she has conducted extensive research on urban green infrastructure planning and design strategies that provide ecosystem services and socio-cultural benefits to communities.  

Master of Landscape Architecture | University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | 2015
B.S. Environmental Studies & Spatial Information Processing | Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | 2008