Jared Rodriguez
Senior Advisor

Combining expertise in sustainability, urban planning, and real estate, Jared has extensive experience leading regulatory and advocacy programs for energy- and climate-related initiatives.

His firm Emergent Urban Concepts is a policy and sustainability consultancy that partners with businesses and state and municipal governments on issues related to decarbonization, sustainable technology, real estate development and management, and transportation. In addition to its work with clients, Emergent Urban Concepts leads The Empire Building Challenge, a program that fosters public-private partnerships with leading commercial and multifamily real estate owners to recruit best-in-class equipment manufacturers, solution providers, and other businesses to invest in low carbon retrofit technology development here in New York State.

Previously Jared was a Director at the LeFrak Organization, a leading, family-owned real estate company with an extensive portfolio of properties concentrated in New York, New Jersey, California, and Florida. During his eight years at the company he led initiatives focused on every aspect of real estate development and management across residential, hotel, retail, and office properties. Jared helped lead lobbying efforts related to city and state level regional transportation planning initiatives, energy policy, and utility and environmental regulations. He also developed a number of LeFrak’s sustainability programs including the firm’s Energy & Conservation Master Plan and portfolio-wide energy and water monitoring system.

Jared serves as proxy Citizens’ Representative, a Governor appointment, on the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA), a federally authorized Metropolitan Planning Organization for the 13-county northern New Jersey region. He is heavily involved in the Hudson Valley region, serving as Chairman of the Comprehensive Plan for Village of Haverstraw, Trustee of the Village of Sleepy Hollow, and board member of several nonprofits in the region.

He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and an MS in Real Estate Development from New York University. He lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York with his family.