Hannah Teicher is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Her research focuses on how mitigation and adaptation to climate change are shaping urban transformations across scales. Recent research projects have centered on collaborations between unlikely allies, governing embodied carbon at the urban scale, and long-term planning for climate migration. Her current research examines how to develop inclusive climate receiving communities, learning from related forms of migration and relocation. Her courses examine how urban planning will grapple with the confluence of adaptation and migration as well as how urban restructuring will evolve at national and transnational scales.

For the Climigration Network, Hannah serves as Co-Chair of the Narrative Building & Communications Workgroup, which guided development of Lead with Listening: A Guidebook for Community Conversations on Climate Migration. Prior to joining the GSD, Hannah was the Researcher in Residence for the Built Environment at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. Her previous experience includes practicing architecture with a focus on sustainable community projects and applied research on transportation electrification. She holds a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from MIT and a Master of Architecture from UBC.