OUR SOUND AND OUR TOWN WITH NANCY SELIGSON

On this episode of Coffee with Hx2, Dr. Heidi Hutner speaks with Nancy Seligson is Supervisor of the Town of Mamaroneck and was elected to the office in November 2011. She served on the Town Board as a Councilwoman beginning in 2000. She was the Town Board liaison to the Town’s land use committees during her time as Councilwoman. As Town Supervisor Ms. Seligson serves as a trustee of the Westchester Joint Water Works and the Larchmont Mamaroneck Joint Garbage Commission. Ms. Seligson has spent most of her career in environmental advocacy and brings that interest to the Town. 

Ms. Seligson is a past member of the Westchester County Board of Health. She was also the chair of the Westchester Chapter of the League of Conservation Voters as well as the Larchmont Mamaroneck Coastal Zone Management Commission. 

She has been a leader in Long Island Sound environmental advocacy for over 20 years. Ms. Seligson is currently the New York Co-Chair of the Citizen’s Advisory Committee of the Long Island Sound Study. She is the past president and board member of the nonprofit organization, Save the Sound. She chaired the Westchester County Committee on Nonpoint Source Pollution of Long Island Sound and the Westchester County Environmental Management Council.

Ms. Seligson also studied and worked with Pace University’s Land Use Law Center’s Community Leadership Alliance (CLA) programs teaching local leaders about New York State land use law and facilitation techniques to improve municipal communications, efficiency and productivity.

Ms. Seligson moved to the Larchmont/Mamaroneck community in 1988. She lives with her husband, John Feingold, and has a son and three step daughters. She graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in economics.