Welcome Dr. Mia White

Mia Charlene White (she/her), PhD, is a first generation Assistant Professor of Urban & Environmental Studies at The New School where she uses theories of race, space, and justice to support the study of urbanism, environment, philosophy, historical materialism, and critical praxis. Hailing from Queens, NY, Mia is a mom of two and identifies as a Black woman of African American and Korean descent. She is Vice-Chair of the Black Geographies Group of the American Association of Geographers, serves on their Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion committee, and works to support faculty across the country in their pedagogical commitments to transform the spatial study of race. Mia is also appointed to the NJ Reparations Council’s Environmental Justice Committee. Her in-progress manuscript on community land trusts and reparations contributes to the literature on “reparative planning” as a theory of spatial belonging that builds a language for future-building at the intersection of racial, climate, and housing justice. She supports public engagement on this research through partnerships with the Climate Museum, the Asian American Arts Alliance (A4), the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), and the Interdenominational Theological Center. Mia did her PhD in Urban Planning at MIT, her Master of International Affairs at Columbia University, and her Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology at SUNY Stony Brook. Mia’s teaching has been recognized with a university-wide award for student-centered universal course design. She is a Mellon Faculty Mentor, a Faculty Fellow with the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, and serves as Associate Director of both the Tishman Environment and Design Center and the Housing Justice Lab at Parsons.

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