bio

Kira Clingen is a Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Research Associate at the Office for Urbanization. She is the project lead on Compound Vulnerabilities: The Case of Cape Ann, which uses scenario planning for climate change on the north shore of coastal Massachusetts. She holds a Masters in Landscape Architecture and Masters in Design Studies from Harvard, and a B.S. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and B.A. in Asian Studies and Environmental Policy from Rice University. She was awarded a 2016 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study climate change in Mauritius and Myanmar. Her current research focuses on climate literacy in landscape architecture, and climate change preparedness.