Peter Malinowski is executive director of the Billion Oyster Project, which over the last 10 years has restored over 120 million oysters to the bottom of New York Harbor and engaged over 100,000 New Yorkers in hands-on ecosystem restoration work. Prior to this, his passion for the environment and education led him to the New York Harbor School, where he founded the school’s aquaculture and oyster-restoration programs and taught for five years. Malinowski was a founding partner of Open Oyster, which provides fresh-shucked oysters at private events. He grew up farming oysters with his parents and siblings on the Fishers Island Oyster Farm in New York Harbor.
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