Speakers
Mikaela Engert
City Planner
Keene, NH
Biography:
Originally from Rochester, New York, Mikaela Engert now works as a city planner for the City of Keene, New Hampshire. Much of Mikaela’s professional experience and education in the field of planning focuses on community sustainability issues. Specifically, her interests are in food security, climate change, and open space planning.
Ms. Engert currently guides the city’s implementation of its Cities for Climate Protection GHG emissions reduction action plan and is an integral part of the team creating the City’s climate adaptation plan – a result of Keene’s participation in ICLEI’s latest program, Climate Resilient Communities (CRC).
Ms. Engert has a Master of Urban Planning from the State University of New York at Buffalo and obtained her Bachelor’s from Green Mountain College in Vermont. She was also part of a team of graduate students which earned the "Outstanding Student Project" awards from the APA Western New York Section, the APA New York Upstate Chapter, and the American Institute of Certified Planners for the plan: Food for Growth: A Community Food System Plan for Buffalo’s West Side.