Laur Hesse Fisher | Environmental Solutions Initiative

Laur Hesse Fisher, Program Director

Laur Hesse Fisher leads MIT’s award-winning climate communications and engagement program at ESI. She focuses on bridging the divide between the public and scientists on tricky climate issues, and cross-partisan collaborations. She is the executive producer and host of MIT’s climate change podcast, TILclimate (Today I Learned: Climate) and founded the MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship.

Laur has worked for public, private and non-government organizations in the US, Sweden, New Zealand, and Canada on climate change and environmental issues, and has experience in a wide range of fields, including carbon reporting, green building, waste management, communications, and crowdsourcing. Before joining the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, Laur worked at the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence leading Climate CoLab, where over 100,000 people worked online with experts and each other to develop proposals on how to address climate change. She also founded and leads Civic Series (www.civicseries.org), an international non-partisan, volunteer-run 501c3 organization that helps people have meaningful conversations about the most important issues of our time. Laur holds a self-designed Bachelor’s degree from Tufts University titled “Engaging Sustainability as an Innovative Process.” When she’s not working at ESI and Civic Series, you’ll find Laur hiking a mountain somewhere with her family, cycling along the Wissahickon, and fulfilling a lifelong dream of learning piano.