People

Lawrence Susskind has served in a variety of roles in the DUSP over the past 35 years, including as Head of the Department. He is currently Director of the Environmental Policy and Planning Group. He is Founder of the Consensus Building Institute (a Cambridge-based, not-for-profit) that provides environmental mediation services around the world. more:::

Dr. Flaxman's primary research interest is in the use of spatial simulation modeling in the planning and design of cities and regions. He is particularly interested in the development of tools for stakeholder-based planning which present evaluative models in context using visual simulation. more:::

Harvey Michaels is Energy Efficiency Lecturer in DUSP as well as a Research Scientist within the MIT Energy Initiative. more:::

Anne Spirn has worked in inner-city neighborhoods on the design of community space and landscape. She is a member of the CDD faculty and director of the West Philadelphia Landscape Project — integrating teaching, research, and community service — cited as a "Model of Best Practice" at a White House summit in March 1999. more:::

James Wescoat is an historian of Mughal garden designs in Islamic South Asia, an environmental researcher focusing on water management and policy and a preservationist who worked with Professor Rahul Mehrotra on the restoration of the Taj Mahal. more:::

Jessie Agatstein Jessie is a Master in City Planning student at MIT with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Planning. She has a B.S. in Biology and Urban Studies and Planning from MIT, and recently she has worked with the USEPA to study the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. more:::

Melissa Higbee is a Masters in City Planning student at MIT with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Planning. She has a B.A. in Geography from U.C. Berkeley and has experience providing consulting to local governments on smart-growth and economic development planning. more:::

Carri Hulet is a Masters in City Planning student at MIT with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Planning. She has a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University. Carri worked as a public policy mediator and consultant prior to coming to MIT. more:::

Toral Patel is a first year Master's student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT, with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Planning. After graduating from Middlebury College with a B.A. in Geography and Political Science, she worked in a variety of fields including spatial analysis and cartography, climate change mitigation and forestry research, and transit-oriented development policy advocacy. more:::

Tiana Ramos Tiana is obtaining her Bachelors in Environmental Studies and Economics at Wellesley College. She is an Environmental Protection Agency Fellow, having interned in the Office of Policy and Management at Region 2 in New York City. more:::

Erica Simmons is a Masters in City Planning student at MIT with a concentration in Environmental Policy and Planning. She has a B.A.S. in Archaeology and Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University more:::

Danya Rumore is a doctoral candidate in Environmental Policy and Planning at MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Her research focuses on collaborative, adaptive environmental governance and consensus-based decision making in the context of science intensive environmental disputes. more:::

Mattijs Van Maasakkers Mattijs van Maasakkers is a PhD-candidate in environmental policy and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is also the Assistant Director of the MIT Science Impact Collaborative. more:::

Todd Schenk has worked with both civil servants and non-governmental organizations across Central and Eastern Europe on governance for sustainability and capacity building projects. more:::

Leah C. Stokes is a PhD student in Environmental Policy & Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. more:::