Kirstin Fisk Engelman is a Doctoral Student in City & Regional Planning in the Weitzman School of Design. Her primary field is Climate Change and Environmental Planning. She studies the opportunities for climate mitigation and adaptation through the planning for Blue Carbon in coastal restoration focused on the United States through the examination of successful institutional, public, and private partnerships as well as coastal GIS data and mapping.
Kirstin received a Bachelor of Science in European History from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and a Master of Arts in International Trade and Investment Policy from The George Washington University. Her interest in policy work evolved from her public policy work at the RAND Corporation, where she worked on a variety of projects in Science and Technology Policy and other governmental departments.
