Anisha Nakagawa

Anisha Patil Nakagawa is currently a Master's student in Urban Planning at MIT. Her work focuses on addressing extreme heat and climate justice using participatory action research and people-centered design. She formerly worked at Silent Spring as a designer and engineer on the institute's digital exposure report-back interface (DERBI) tools.

Anisha earned her Bachelor's degree from Olin College in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where she also studied people-centered design in the context of designing with groups who have been historically excluded. She has professional experience with information design, focusing on how to make data and information easy to understand for a broad audience. She also has experience in climate organizing and activism, which brings a lens of equity and community-based organizing to her approach to public health.