Miranda Massie
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| Born | Miranda Kimball Scott Massie December 20, 1966 |
| Education | Cornell University, Yale University, New York University |
| Occupation | Director 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[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
- ^ Cook, Joan (June 23, 1967). "Brooklyn Heights: Aspects Of Suburbia Within the City". The New York Times. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Impact of Grutter and Gratz". NYU Law Magazine, the Alumni Almanac. 2004. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Ridding Schools of PCBs". New York Times. February 11, 2011. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Kormann, Carolyn (2015-05-16). "The Museum of Unnatural History". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-03-07.
- ^ "Climate Museum Team".
- ^ "Taking Action". Taking Action. Retrieved 2020-02-21.
- ^ "Miranda Massie Profile". Linkedin. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ "Director's Dialogue with Miranda Massie". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ "The Future of Cultural Centers: Miranda Massie, The Climate Museum – 10.27.2020". Center for Architecture. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ "Miranda Massie: A Museum for the Path Ahead". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ "Miranda Massie: "Climate Silence," Puerto Rico, & the Climate Museum". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "NYLPI on NBC 8-31-10.wmv". YouTube. Retrieved March 15, 2022.