Climate and Culture
Miranda Massie is the founder and director of America’s first climate museum, mobilizing the power of the arts for climate engagement.
Miranda Massie (she/her) is the director and founder of the Climate Museum.
In 2014, Miranda left a career in social justice litigation to lay the groundwork for the Climate Museum, which in 2018 had its breakout year of public programming.
She has led the creation of the Museum’s activist, cultural approach to community engagement with climate, recognizing that most Americans are worried about climate change but unsure how to take meaningful action. The Museum has now secured a permanent home that will open in 2030 near Hudson Yards in New York City.
Miranda has been featured in national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker. See press page for more information.
She is a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and is the 2026 recipient of the NYC Environmental Law Leadership Institute’s Leadership in Action Award.
Miranda’s numerous guest teaching engagements include the Masters programs in Museum Studies at NYU, Architecture and Landscape Architecture at RISD, Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Climate and Society at Columbia University, and Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
She has served on numerous arts and design juries, such as the Rockefeller Center Flag Project, the Tokyo International Photography Competition, the Reimagining Museums for Climate Action International Design Competition, and the A La Luz International Design Competition.
She sits on a number of editorial and advisory boards and committees, including those of the Woodwell Artists’ Residency, the Nest Climate Campus, World Scientific’s Climate Action, Research, and Policy series, and the Crow’s Nest Baltimore.
Miranda’s prior honors as a civil rights litigator include Fletcher Foundation, W.E.B. Dubois Institute, and Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowships, as well as a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School. She holds a J.D. from New York University, an M.A. from Yale University, and a B.A. from Cornell University.
Miranda speaks frequently on the need for programming on climate change across the cultural sector, and the transformational power of arts and cultural programming for climate engagement.