Steering Committee

Mount Prospect Park serves a diverse swath of Brooklyn that comes together in its historic free and flexible green space. People have grown up using the park to learn to ride a bike, as green space for a daycare or a summer camp, as a place for pickup soccer games with friends, as beautiful neighborhood space for walking and picnicking, and as manageable and cooling green space when confronting different kinds of health conditions that may make more action-oriented parks particularly challenging. The individuals serving on the Friends of Mount Prospect Park Steering Committee are community members who have come together to work to preserve, protect and enhance the green space for all.

  • Cheryl Faust (she/her)

    Cheryl is a retired project manager married to a disabled Vietnam veteran, who has lived near Mount Prospect Park for more than 40 years. Since joining Friends of Mount Prospect Park, Cheryl has been particularly active meeting with local officials and presenting community board testimony to help keep the park green.

  • Delrose Taylor (she/her)

    Delrose immigrated to the US in 1994 and has lived near Mount Prospect Park since 2002. She runs her own consulting business, focused on product development and sourcing for apparel. Delrose has worked for large corporations to develop their supply chain strategies, and has also facilitated launches for start-up businesses, helping them to meet their production needs. For Friends of Mount Prospect Park, Delrose has focused particularly on researching, supporting and participating in rallies and public actions.

  • Hayley Gorenberg (she/her)

    Hayley has lived near Mount Prospect Park for more than 30 years, and raised her two children regularly enjoying their neighborhood’s green park. Throughout her professional career, Hayley has worked in justice-oriented nonprofits – including environmental justice and health and disability justice. She currently teaches LGBTQ rights, and is a longstanding member of the Undoing Racism Collective and its white accountability hub. Throughout her professional and personal life, Hayley has opposed bullying in all its forms. In early 2024, she helped found Friends of Mount Prospect Park.

  • Helen Koh (she/her)

    Helen has lived near Mount Prospect Park since 2002. Helen is the founding director of Art Science Connect, an initiative of the CUNY Graduate Center that explores the ways in which a productive dialogue between practices of art, science, and technology inform one another, pointing the way to new modes of collaboration. Helen has met with various local officials on behalf of Friends of Mount Prospect Park, and is often seen around the neighborhood with FoMPP flyers in-hand, helping educate neighbors about the threat to local green park space.

  • Isabelle Broyer (she/her)

    Isabelle is an immigrant who has lived near Mount Prospect Park since 1994. Isabelle leads the Cultural Row Block Association (CuRBA), and has been active in preserving tenants’ rights locally for many years. She currently heads her building’s tenants’ association, and as a local renter stays attuned to including neighborhood push-out and concerns about traffic and congestion as environmental factors. Isabelle has volunteered informally in Mount Prospect Park for years, including helping out with park clean-ups.

  • Aidan Screwvala (any pronouns)

    Intern

    Aidan grew up near Mount Prospect Park and graduated from college in 2023 with an honors degree in Economics, and minors in Environmental Studies and Philosophy, including environmental ethics. They are disabled, and value Mount Prospect Park as a calm escape from dangerous city heat – as compared to more dynamic Prospect Park, with its busy multi-lane and vehicle traffic. Aidan is passionate about advocating for their community's wellbeing, and for a resilient future.

  • Tanéyah Jolly (she/her)

    Intern

    Tanéyah was born and raised in the Bronx, and values green spaces all over NYC. She graduated from college with a degree in Sociology and minors in Gender and Sexuality Studies, African-American Studies, and Theater. Tanéyah has experience working on environmental justice campaigns, is passionate about justice and liberation for all, and hopes to work towards building that future.