MEDIA ROOM
Awards & Recognition
Connect CRE Women in Real Estate Award 2022
The Connect CRE Women in Real Estate Award highlights women with achievements and inspirational stories who have reached respected positions of leadership and play key mentorship roles for others in commercial real estate.
GlobeSt. Women of Influence Award 2021
Since 1983, GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum has recognized a growing number of commercial real estate female professionals for their remarkable achievements. These individuals have personally impacted the market and have significantly driven the industry to new heights via their outstanding successes.
LEED Fellow, Class of 2014
LEED Fellows are recognized for their exceptional contributions to the green building community as well as for their significant achievements among LEED Professionals.
E+E 100 Honorees - 2020 by Environment + Energy Leader
The E+E 100 is a list of the people who have broken new ground or advanced best practices to help their companies — or the industry as a whole — achieve great success in commercial and industrial environment and energy management.
Women in Sustainability Leadership Award (WSLA) 2015 - Green Building and Design Magazine
Recognized as one the most powerful women making a difference in the world through sustainability. WSLA is considered to be one of the most prestigious awards in the world of architecture and the built environment.
“Member of the Year” Award by USGBC National Capital Region Chapter – 2016
Awards are given to LEED projects in the National Capital Region that exemplify green building practices and principles.
U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award (awarded to USGBC Materials Technical Advisory Group Members)
This award honors individuals whose service positively impacts communities in every corner of the nation and inspires those around them to take action, too.
District of Columbia Mayor's Sustainability Leadership Award – 2014
The annual "Sustainability Awards" program recognizes outstanding individuals, businesses, schools, institutions, and organizations for their environmental leadership and contributions to the Mayor's goal of the District of Columbia becoming the greenest, healthiest, and most livable city in the nation.
As Featured In
Podcasts
Clean Techies Podcast
Episode #48: Real Estate and ESG with Fulya Kocak Gin (Nareit)
In this episode, Fulya Kocak goes into detail about how ESG plays a role in the Real Estate space. Specifically, we discussed REIT, how ESG affects design, the standard objections, ESG reporting for RE Owners, and much more.
GBES Podcast
Discussing ESG Across REITS with Fulya Kocak
In this episode, Fulya shares about pressures facing real estate portfolio, real estate and ESG, understanding the benefits and the differences in getting an Architectural Engineering degree, volunteering as an integrated part of the work you will do in the industry, what ESG means for environmental stewardship, social responsibility and good governance practices, a useful ESG Bible for readers with documents and tools on ESG reporting frameworks and top ESG key performance indicators, three emissions tips you need to hear to prepare for the future and why specialization is key to standing out among the competition.
EY Podcast
Season 4, Episode 1: The CFO’s expanding role in the ESG ecosystem
In this episode of the Better Finance podcast, Myles Corson is joined by Fulya Kocak, senior vice president of ESG issues for National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Nareit) and Serena Wolfe, chief financial officer of Annaly Capital Management. Together, they discuss the increasing stakeholder focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues within the real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the broader real estate sector. The conversation starts with a look at how the pandemic has influenced agility within REITs to become ESG change agents for other sectors.
