Meeting roles in:
Past Climate Adaptation Policy Learning among U.S. Federal Agencies: Preserving & Improving Administrative Governance in an Age of Misinformation
Melissa Tier is a 5th-year PhD candidate at the Princeton School of Public & International Affairs in the Science, Technology, & Environmental Policy program. She conducts collaborative, applied research on climate adaptation policy -- interweaving topics in multi-level governance, environmental justice, urban planning, and behavioral science. She also co-teaches an Environmental Justice course with the NJ Prison Teaching Initiative, and previously worked as a Graduate Fellow at both the NYC Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).

Prior to her PhD, Melissa served for 5 years as the first Sustainability Program Manager at Swarthmore College (in the Philadelphia metropolitan area) -- where she helped to launch the Office of Sustainability and to facilitate environmental and climate institutional decision-making, in conjunction with both senior administrators and the wider campus community. During that time, she completed a part-time, executive master's degree in Sustainable Urban Development from the University of Oxford. She also holds a BA in Psychology from Swarthmore, and subsequently worked as a full-time Research Assistant at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.