DANIEL K. GAROFALO

Dan Garofalo is an architect with over 20 years experience in design & project management. Since 2001, Dan has worked at the facilities department of the University of Pennsylvania, where he’s currently serving as the university’s sustainability coordinator. Dan develops and oversees activity and initiatives in energy and utility conservation, green building, waste reduction and recycling, and sustainable transportation. He is also responsible for tracking the university’s greenhouse gas inventory and developing Penn’s Climate Action plan for carbon emissions reduction.

Dan holds Masters degrees in architecture and in government administration from Penn, and will complete a third masters – in environmental studies – this year. His undergraduate degree in architecture is from the University of Virginia.

He is active in numerous civic and charitable organizations, and is the current chair of the Delaware Valley Chapter of the US Green Building Council. He was a founder and first board chair of the Community Design Collaborative (Philadelphia’s non-profit design center) and is on the board of the Environmental Leadership Program, where he was a fellow in 2004. Dan served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi in the1990s, working in the Office of Housing and Planning in the capital city of Lilongwe, and in Sri Lanka in 2005 working on post-tsunami reconstruction.