Alysa Plummer, Mayor
Alysa Subtelny Plummer is a native of Pittsford and proud graduate of Sutherland High School. Her undergraduate degree is from Syracuse University in Soviet and East European Studies with graduate work in International Relations at Georgetown University.
Early in her career, Alysa was one of the first women selected for AT&T’s Management Program, where she was trained in Systems Analysis and served on an ISDN task force with Bell Laboratories regarding broadband applications in the financial services sector. After AT&T, she was a Senior Market Analyst in telecommunications for The Yankee Group in Boston.
Community-building, place-making, and advocating for important issues have always been a focal point of Mayor Plummer’s life. As a lifelong advocate of historic preservation and conservation, she worked with numerous municipalities and organizations on these issues and has successfully worked to pass environmental legislation on Capitol Hill.
Alysa benefited from her varied experiences of living and working in Manhattan, Boston, New Orleans, Miami and, just prior to moving back to the Village, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. While in Florida, Ms. Plummer worked with the City of Fort Lauderdale to rewrite historic ordinances and finalized the city’s first design guidelines for historic districts. She also guided the City Commission to become a Certified Local Government thereby making it eligible for preservation grants. During that time, she served as president of Sailboat Bend, the oldest neighborhood in the city and its largest historic district – with a population larger than Pittsford Village. Working with the city commission and emergency services, Alysa successfully developed a traffic and pedestrian safety program for the district, as well as preserving, in perpetuity, a unique habitat along the New River as public greenspace.
As founding president of Friends of Shippey House, Alysa received the prestigious Dr. Cooper-Kirk Award from the Broward County Historical Commission, in recognition of the community’s grass roots effort to save an historically important structure from demolition. She received the City of Fort Lauderdale’s first-ever Green Award for sustainably rehabilitating her home at the time, an historic structure known as “Little Hammock.”
Back at home in Pittsford Village, Mayor Plummer served on the Board of Historic Pittsford and the Village Board. Also, she served on the Steering Committee for the Town’s Comprehensive Plan, the Village’s Comprehensive Plan, and their joint Active Transportation Plan. She remains active with numerous non-profits in the Rochester area.
Email: mayorplummer@villageofpittsford.com