Hannah Aronson, a Master of City Planning student at MIT. As a child, Hannah used to visit Ocracoke with her parents Margaret Mackinnon and Bob Baldwin, who still come every summer. With experience in Massachusetts, Virginia, Hawai'i, Japan, New Zealand, and Micronesia, Hannah is researching how coastal communities envision and plan for climate change. Hannah’s final thesis project will be the development of a community-driven framework for Ocracoke based on ideas shared during the series. Her project is based on a two-step approach to planning: first, community envisioning of ideal futures (workshop series); then, grounding community visions in available resources and realities (planning framework).
