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_About
My name is Meesh Zucker and I work as the Acting Planning Branch Chief in the Mitigation Division at FEMA Region 3in Philadelphia, PA. Together with federal, state, tribal, and local partners, my team develops climate resilience plans and strategic policies to equitably mitigate the impacts for all residents.

Prior to FEMA, I worked as an urban planner at Superpedestrian and graduated from MIT with a Masters degree in City Planning. My research at MIT primarily focused on the spatialization of resident and community narratives to reveal the city's historic role in the displacement and erasure of certain social identities. 

Combined I have over twelve years of professional experience working as a project manager, urban designer, and landscape architect, both in the United States and internationally in Copenhagen.


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Born in 1990 in Southern California, I currently live and work in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When I’m not working I can be found in the ceramics studio, building furniture, or tending to my houseplant jungle.


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_Education

2018 - 20 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.A., City Planning

2009 - 13 The Pennsylvania State University
B.L.A., Landscape Architecture 2013


_Work Experience

2022 - FEMA
Acting Planning Branch Chief, Mitigation Division
Supervisory Community Planner

2021 - 22 Superpedestrian
Senior Manager, Srategic Planning and Projects
Lead Urban Planner

2018 - 20 MIT Hacking the Archive
Lead Graduate Researcher

2017 - 18 League of Creative Interventionists
Lead Urban Planning + Project Manager

2015 - 17 Fletcher Studio
Associate Landscape Architect + Urban Planner

2013 - 15 arki_lab
Associate Landscape Architect + Urban Planner

2014 - 22 Restart [your city]
Co-founder + Lead Urban Designer


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