Ishita Rahman

Ishita is a research assistant at the Urban Systems Lab in National Science Foundation’s Catalyzing Human-centered Solutions through Research and Innovation in Science, the Environment and Society (CRISES) program, dealing with Climate Hazard and Risks. She is currently a PhD student at the Public and Urban Policy program at The New School and her research interest lies in coastal city resilience for people and types of infrastructure, and exploring governance for climate finance for developing countries. She has an MS in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from The New School along with a minor in Civic Service Design from Parsons School of Design and a BArch in Architecture from BRAC University in Bangladesh. She is an architect and has consulted for Habitat for Humanity International in New York, and consulted in project proposal development for UN HABITAT Global Solutions Division, UNDP Bangladesh and Governor Island Trust as part of C3: Climate Center Consortium in The New School team. Ishita served as Country Coordinator Bangladesh for Possible (former 10:10 Climate Action) and took part in developing climate change awareness campaign projects. She also takes an interest in entrepreneurship and has been a mentor at the US Venture Sustainability Accelerator in 2023 and the editor of an entrepreneurial book called The Ideal Quitter - Lessons Worth Half a Million USD One of her notable published works is a chapter titled Linkage between Traditional Architectural Elements in South Asia Representing Regionalism and Achieving Salutogenesis Ishita likes learning languages, traveling and exploring everything in art and culture.