Hannah Aronson

Hannah is a Master of City Planning student in DUSP and a Research Assistant for the Resilient Communities Lab at MIT. Her interests center on community-driven approaches to environmental planning, including coastal resilience, climate-related migration, and public health. This summer, she is the working with the Massachusetts Board of Underwater Archaeological Resources (BUAR), Office of Coastal Zone Management (CZM) on the Commonwealth's first state-wide cultural resource vulnerability assessment.

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. Before coming to DUSP, she was most recently working in New York City as a health care access coordinator for the Department of Homeless Services. She has also been a teacher in Richmond, VA; Nagasaki, Japan; and Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia; and briefly, a restaurant manager.  

While an undergraduate, Hannah was awarded a Freeman Fellowship to work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with Recollectiv (former Liberty Shared). She then spent a semester abroad in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studied social movements and human rights and completed an independent research project on reproductive health and child rearing for Indigenous women in La Comunidad Diaguita Calchaqui Pucara Angastaco.