Hannah Aronson

Hannah Aronson (she/ella) is a Masters in City Planning student in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and a Research Assistant for the Resilient Communities Lab at MIT. Before DUSP, she was most recently working in New York City as a health care access coordinator for the Department of Homeless Services. 

Hannah grew up in and around the D.C. area and graduated from Davidson College with a BA in Sociology (just like Steph Curry!) and a minor in Data Science. Since then, she has also been a teacher in Richmond, VA; Nagasaki, Japan; and Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. Within the field of urban studies and city planning, her research interests include land use and Indigenous planning, urban climate justice, and housing as a social determinant of health.