Kathy Corradi serves as New York City’s first Citywide Director of Rodent Mitigation (aka “rat czar”). Building on over a decade of community engagement, program development, and facilities operations experience, she leads the city’s rodent mitigation efforts with a focus on science, evidence-based strategies, and coalition building.

Corradi has spent her career fostering connections between people and their environment in efforts to deepen belonging and ownership. She began her professional life as an elementary school teacher in central Brooklyn and program lead at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. At New York City Public Schools Office of Sustainability, Corradi developed the nation’s largest zero waste program. As Director of Space Planning, she worked with communities and school leadership to optimize building utilization and improve facilities.

Corradi earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biology from Eckerd College, and a Master of Science in urban sustainability from The City College of New York.

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