Miranda Massie (she/her) is the director and founder of the Climate Museum.

Until 2014, Miranda was a social justice impact litigator. Her honors in that capacity include a Fletcher Foundation Fellowship, a W.E.B. Dubois Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, and a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship, as well as a Mentorship-in-Residence at Yale Law School.

In the weeks following Hurricane Sandy in New York City, where she lives, she decided to refocus her energies on creating a platform for climate engagement that would invite the broad public into learning opportunities and active civic engagement with climate change—into a culture for action. This life change was based on two beliefs, one about prioritization and one about mode: that climate change is causing the most acute and complex social justice crisis in humanity’s history, and that significant changes in policy generally require prior shifts in public culture.

Raised by artists, she also recognized the superpowers of the arts and the necessity of elevating artistic practice around climate change to create an emotions-first, inclusive invitation into a sense of climate community for the large majority, who are worried about climate, but often feel isolated and unsure how to embark on the meaningful action that will lead to changes at scale.

In 2018, the Museum had its breakout year of public programming; it has since presented 20 exhibitions and major installations and 360+ special events. It has repeatedly and favorably been featured in national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, The Art Newspaper, and The New Yorker. It has received glowing visitor reviews and warm peer assessments. It was the subject of a quantitative and qualitative peer-reviewed study that identified significant visitor impacts. See the press page for more information.

Miranda is a Public Voices Fellow with the OpEd Project and the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. She is the 2026 recipient of the NYC Environmental Law Leadership Institute’s Leadership in Action Award and a National Center for Science Education Friend of the Planet Award.

She frequently guest lectures (at 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, for example); has served on numerous arts and design juries (those of the Rockefeller Center Flag Project, the Tokyo International Photography Competition, and the A La Luz International Design Competition, for example); and sits on a number of editorial and advisory boards and committees (those of the Woodwell Artists’ Residency; World Scientific’s Climate Action, Research, and Policy series; and the Crow’s Nest Baltimore, for example).

Miranda is a sought-after speaker on the need for programming on climate change across the cultural sector and the transformational power of arts and cultural programming for climate engagement.