Miranda Massie

Miranda Massie (she/her) is the director and founder of the Climate Museum. In 2014, Massie left a career in social justice law to lay the groundwork for the Museum, which in 2018 had its breakout year of public programming. It has created an activist, cultural approach to community engagement with climate, recognizing that most Americans are worried about the climate crisis but unsure how to take meaningful action. The Museum’s free, accessible exhibitions, art installations, advocacy tools, events, youth programs, and more have touched hundreds of thousands of visitors and participants and received extensive recognition, broadening the climate movement with an emphasis on community, justice, equity, and inclusion.

Massie’s prior honors as a civil rights litigator include Fletcher Foundation, W.E.B. Dubois Institute, and Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowships, as well as a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School. Her previous board service includes a Head Start organization for migrant farm families and the Center for Popular Democracy. Massie holds a J.D. from New York University, an M.A. from Yale University, and a B.A. from Cornell University.

Massie has been featured in national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. She is a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. Her numerous guest teaching engagements include the Masters programs in Museum Studies at NYU, in Architecture and Landscape Architecture at RISD, and in Climate and Society at Columbia University.

Massie is active within several international coalitions focused on climate-oriented work within the cultural sector and has served on numerous design juries. She speaks frequently on the need for programming on the climate crisis across the cultural sector, and concomitantly, the transformational power of arts and cultural programming for climate.