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Miranda Massie

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Miranda Massie
Born
Miranda Kimball Scott Massie

December 20, 1966
EducationCornell University, Yale University, New York University
OccupationDirector of the Climate Museum

Miranda Massie is an American lawyer who is the founder and director of the Climate Museum, the first museum in the US dedicated to climate change.

Early life and education

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Massie was born in New York City in 1966. She grew up first in Brooklyn Heights,[1] then in New York’s Hudson River Valley.[2] Massie earned a French Baccalaureat and attended Cornell University, where she studied US History and won several honors upon her graduation in 1989. She enrolled in a Ph.D. program in History at the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which she left in 1991 with a master's degree. She then lived in Mexico City before pursuing a J.D. degree at New York University School of Law.[citation needed]

Career

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Massie moved to Detroit, Michigan to work as a civil rights impact litigator. Her lead counsel roles included the representation of the student intervenors in the University of Michigan Law School affirmative action case, Grutter v. Bollinger,[3][4] which resulted in a 2003 Supreme Court decision.[5] Massie moved back to New York City in 2007 to serve as a senior attorney in the environmental justice unit at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), focusing on children's exposure to toxins in public schools.[6] She became Legal Director at NYLPI, overseeing the firm's work in the areas of environmental, health, and disability equity and also served a period as NYLPI's Interim Executive Director.[citation needed]

Increasingly concerned about climate change,[7][8] in 2014, Massie left her career as a lawyer to found the Climate Museum, where she is the director, and has overseen the presentation of several exhibitions and special programs.[9][10] She is a Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Communications,[11][better source needed] and speaks frequently on climate and culture.[12][13][14][15] Massie’s civil rights impact advocacy and her cultural work on climate have been featured in a variety of print, radio, and television news outlets.[16][17]

References

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  1. ^ Cook, Joan (June 23, 1967). "Brooklyn Heights: Aspects Of Suburbia Within the City". The New York Times. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  2. ^ Inglese, Elizabeth (August 8, 2016). "Meet The Woman Building America's Next Great Cultural Landmark—And Solving The Climate Crisis". MindBodyGreen. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  3. ^ "The Impact of Grutter and Gratz". NYU Law Magazine, the Alumni Almanac. 2004. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  4. ^ Brown-Nagin, Tomiko (June 2005). "Elites, Social Movements, and the Law: The Case of Affirmative Action". Columbia Law Review. 105 (1436). Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  5. ^ "Supreme Court Upholds Affirmative Action: Landmark Rulings Hailed as Sweeping Victory for University of Michigan and Colleges Across the Country". Democracy Now!. June 24, 2003. Retrieved March 14, 2022.
  6. ^ "Ridding Schools of PCBs". New York Times. February 11, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  7. ^ Foderaro, Lisa W. (August 21, 2015). "A Lawyer Quit Her Job to Start a Climate Museum in New York". The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
  8. ^ Kormann, Carolyn (2015-05-16). "The Museum of Unnatural History". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
  9. ^ "Climate Museum Team".
  10. ^ "Taking Action". Taking Action. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
  11. ^ "Miranda Massie Profile". Linkedin. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  12. ^ "Director's Dialogue with Miranda Massie". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  13. ^ "The Future of Cultural Centers: Miranda Massie, The Climate Museum – 10.27.2020". Center for Architecture. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  14. ^ "Miranda Massie: A Museum for the Path Ahead". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  15. ^ "Miranda Massie: "Climate Silence," Puerto Rico, & the Climate Museum". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  16. ^ "The Climate Museum is the first of its kind in the U.S. — and its founder is on a mission". Washington Post. September 10, 2021. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
  17. ^ "NYLPI on NBC 8-31-10.wmv". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.