Gail Garfield, Loeb Fellow, Harvard School of Design '77

Urban Planner, Author

Gail GarfieldJoining the HCCC Executive Committee is an honor for this relatively new Wash-ashore.  A native New Yorker,  I settled here in 2020 after 75 years as a summer resident of Orleans.  I root for the Red Sox, as do the several family members here and in the Boston area.   I retired from my first profession, making and advocating rational public policy, in 2000, to become a more useful human as a sculptor.  Still, I keep up with the political, economic, and social Issues that plague us today.  With a M.U.P. from NYU and a PhD from Columbia, I started out in the New York City Planning Department, moved on to a Washington D.C. think tank, then opened my own economic development chop-shop.   My 15 minutes of fame came in 1984 with publication of The Work Revolution: How High Tech is Sweeping Away Old Jobs and Industries and Creating New Ones in New Places. There followed the Vice-Chairmanship of the New York State Public Service Commission and the telecommunications policy chiefdom at TCG, the preeminent telecom start-up acquired by AT&T.  My greatly appreciated Harvard experience was a Loeb Fellowship at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1976-77.    I made good use of  the Harvard Club of New York, known for its member-led affinity groups;  I would like to  rev up similar activities at HCCC.