Cindy Brooks
President and founder of greenfield
Cindy Brooks is President and Founder of Greenfield Environmental Trust Group (Greenfield), a multidisciplinary organization that serves as court-appointed environmental response and custodial trustee. Having remediated and redeveloped multiple hazardous waste sites for 35 years, Cindy is one of our nation’s earliest pioneers in brownfields redevelopment and a national expert on hazardous waste site remediation, community-driven revitalization, and public-private partnerships.
As the first-ever trustee of an environmental custodial trust, Cindy led the groundbreaking transformation of the Industri-plex Superfund Site in Woburn, Massachusetts (home of A Civil Action) from a tannery/glue plant to an intermodal transportation center, a million-square-foot office park and hotel campus, and 500,000-square-foot commercial space, creating 2,000+ jobs and generating $200 million in annual employment income.
Cindy is Managing Principal for Greenfield’s current environmental response and custodial trust appointments, including: Greenfield Environmental Multistate Trust (Multistate Environmental Response Trustee), Greenfield Savannah Environmental Trust (Savannah Environmental Response Trustee), Greenfield Penobscot Estuary Remediation Trust (Penobscot Estuary Mercury Remediation Trustee), Greenfield Penobscot Estuary Project Trust (Penobscot Estuary Beneficial Environmental Projects Trustee), and Montana Environmental Trust Group (Montana Environmental Custodial Trustee).
As Trustee, Greenfield has taken title to hundreds of contaminated sites across the U.S. and ±$1.5 billion to remediate the sites and facilitate their beneficial reuse. Under Cindy’s leadership, Greenfield has received two national Phoenix Awards for Excellence in Brownfields Redevelopment, the EPA-Region 8 Excellence in Superfund Site Reuse Award, the ACEC National Engineering Excellence Grand Award in the environmental category, and the FIDIC International Engineering Excellence Award.
Cindy earned her Bachelor of Science in civil engineering from Duke University and Master of Business Administration from Harvard University.
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