Eve Niedergang

Eve moved to Princeton in the mid-80’s from her native NYC to be a graduate student at Princeton University. She has a BA from Cornell and a masters from Princeton, both in History. She became involved in the community initially through the schools and then through volunteering at her library while pursuing a career in educational testing, first at ETS and later as a consultant. She joined the staff at the Watershed Institute in 2016 to pursue my passion for the environment. Eve's interest in doing more to fight for sustainability and equity led her run for local office in 2018 and she is now in her second term as a councilwoman in Princeton.

A major focus of Eve's time on council has been in the area of sustainability. She has led the effort to preserve open space, including the conservation of the largest remaining tract of undeveloped land in Princeton. She has championed the passage of gas leaf blower restrictions in our community, embracing a unique process that included landscapers and other involved community members and that was done with a commitment to racial and social justice. She is the current liaison to the city's Environmental Commission, former liaison to the city's Shade Tree Commission and responsible for restarting the city's Flood and Stormwater Committee, whose work led to an ordinance that will decrease flooding from new developments, protecting Princeton in this era of climate change.

The costs of repairing damage and rebuilding lives from the devastating storms that are now the “new normal” has led Eve to seek alternatives to placing these enormous costs solely on the shoulders of our taxpayers; it’s time that those who have created and benefitted from the extraction and sale of fossil fuels address the problems they’ve created. She wants to be part of that effort.