Titles

• PhD Student, Sustainability, School of Sustainability
• Graduate Research Fellow, Urban Resilience to Extremes Sustainability Research Network, Arizona State University

Biography

Marisa Manheim is a first-year PhD student and UREx SRN Fellow. Her interests lie in how urban agriculture and community-based policy development can play a role in climate change adaptation. Previously, she directed community gardening and policy at Grow Pittsburgh and led the Pittsburgh Food Policy Council’s Urban Agriculture Working Group. She holds a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University.

Spoken Languages:

Spanish (conversational)

Education

• MS, Human-Computer Interactionc, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003
• BHA, Psychology and Design, Carnegie Mellon University, 2002

Expertise

• climate change and adaptation
• vulnerability
• climate change mitigation
• resilience
• community development
• food systems
• future scenarios
• strategic planning
• policy and governance
• social/behavioral change
• urbanization/planning
• organizing