QUIET LANDCARE CHAIR

Jamie Banks, PhD, MSc, is Founder and President of Quiet Communities. She is a health care and environmental scientist with an extensive background in health outcomes and economics, environmental behavior, and policy who brings a multi-faceted perspective to her work.

QUIET AMERICAN SKIES HONORARY CHAIR

Arline Bronzaft, PhD, is Professor Emerita of the City University of New York, and a researcher, public advocate, and consultant on the effects of noise worldwide for five decades. In her hometown of New York City she has been continuously appointed by five NYC mayors to the Board of GrowNYC where she oversees its noise activities, and assisted in the 2007 revision of New York City’s noise code.

QUIET RESTAURANTS CHAIR

Neil D. Donnenfeld, MBA, is a board member and chair of the Quiet Restaurants initiative. He is single-sided deaf and suffers from tinnitus and hyperacusis as the result of an acoustic neuroma (benign brain tumor).

QUIET COALITION CHAIR

Daniel Fink, MD, MBA, FACP, is a board-certified internist and medical management expert. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Dr. Fink completed his internal medicine training at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and then received an MBA from the Wharton School.

QUIET EMPOWERMENT CHAIR

Rick Reibstein, JD, is an environmental lawyer. He is the former manager of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction program. Prior to that he worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He was the recipient of the EPA’s Individual Environmental Merit Award in 2000 and received the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable’s Pollution Prevention Champion Award in 2015.

QUIET HEALTHCARE CHAIR and QUIET AMERICAN SKIES VICE CHAIR

David M. Sykes, MA, is lead author of “Sound & Vibration” (Springer-Verlag), co-author of “Sound Matters” (U.S. General Services Administration), and a contributor to the National Academy of Engineering report, “Technology for a Quieter America.”

QUIET STREETS CHAIR and QUIET AMERICAN SKIES CO-CHAIR

Mary Tatigian is chair of the Quiet Streets initiative. She is the founder of Quiet Florida, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing harmful noise that is not a direct affiliate of QC. Quiet Florida was established in 2021 and has close to 1,000 members.