People on the Move: Da Cruz Elected President of Realtors, Forcier Named New Chief at DEM
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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Da Cruz Elected President of Realtors
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The Rhode Island Association of Realtors has announced that Bryant C. Da Cruz, of Century 21 Guardian Realty in Wakefield, R.I., has been elected president of the nearly 6500-member professional association. He assumes the position this week, following his return from the 2022 National Association of Realtors annual conference in Orlando, Florida.
Da Cruz graduated from Johnson & Wales University with an honors degree in Entrepreneurship in 1997 and began his real estate career shortly thereafter. In his first year as a Realtor, he was named Rookie of the Year in one of the largest firms in Rhode Island. He has always tried to run his business by following Theodore Roosevelt's quote, "People Don't Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care.”
Da Cruz, his wife Kerin, and their two children, Evan and Ryan, live in South Kingstown, where he is a past vice president of the South Kingstown Town Council. He is the current president of the South Kingstown Lions Club, a volunteer firefighter for Union Fire District, and a member of Hope Lodge #25 of Free & Accepted Masons and South Kingstown Elks Club #1899, to name just a few of his civic contributions. He has also served on the board of the Kent Washington Association of Realtors, where he chaired the board’s Government Affairs Committee.
The Association also announced four other new officers who will serve for a one-year term: Sally Hersey of Williams and Stuart Real Estate, President-elect; Christopher Whitten of Premier Real Estate, Vice President, Thomas Sweeney of Sweeney Real Estate and Appraisal, Treasurer; and Michael Pereira, of June Realty, Secretary.
Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Names Forcier New Chief of Environmental Protection Bureau
Department of Environmental Management (DEM) Director Terry Gray announced that he has named Susan Forcier, Esq., as the agency’s Deputy Director of Environmental Protection (EP). As head of the EP Bureau, Forcier will lead an enterprise consisting of seven separate divisions, 170 employees, and a budget of around $35 million a year. The bureau enforces clean air and water compliance, regulates solid and hazardous waste, oversees the closure of active and inactive landfills, is the on-switch to transforming contaminated industrial sites through the brownfields program, investigates complaints and suspected violations of environmental laws and regulations, runs a hazmat unit that responds to more than 500 emergencies a year across the state, and helps expedite environmental permitting processes for thousands of individuals, companies, and local governments annually.
“This role is an important part of our leadership structure at DEM and I am looking forward to working with Susan in it,” said Director Gray, who served as the EP Deputy Director before becoming the agency’s director in 2021. “Along with being passionate about protecting Rhode Island’s environment and natural resources, Susan has in-depth knowledge of EP programs and good ideas about advancing our mission and improving our business processes. She has been the lead attorney on many critical environmental permitting and enforcement cases in her career.”
A native of Rhode Island, Forcier joined DEM in 2006, rising through the ranks of the legal unit until becoming Deputy Chief Legal Counsel in 2016. She earned a master's in marine affairs degree from the University of Rhode Island and a law degree from Roger Williams University through their joint degree program in 2005. She majored in marine biology at URI, graduating in 2002.
“I’m excited to take on a policy and leadership role in the agency to which I’ve dedicated my career and shift my focus from the courtroom to DEM’s larger mission,” Forcier said. “We have many high-level priorities and challenges. These include meeting the mandates of the Act on Climate law, completing a statewide investigation of sources of PFAS contamination, and setting standards for PFAS in ground and surface waters, to name just a few. But having worked closely with my colleagues in the EP Bureau over the past 16 years, I know we have the people power to achieve these objectives and protect and restore Rhode Island’s environment.”
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