Julia Carlton MacKay
Director of Community Resilience | CLF Massachusetts | She/Her
Julia Carlton MacKay, AICP is CLF’s Director of Community Resilience, focusing on creating and protecting healthy communities that can thrive in the face of our changing climate.
Before joining CLF, Julia worked at Sasaki, where she created climate resilience plans for communities and institutions across the country, including several in New England that addressed coastal and riverine flooding, stormwater management, extreme heat, and environmental justice. She also has extensive experience working on a variety of master planning and design projects at many scales.
Julia received her Masters in City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vassar College. She lives in Arlington, Massachusetts with her family.
Recent Posts
Aug 3 2026
Before the end of the twenty-first century, it is estimated that 88,000 Bostonians will be exposed to coastal or river flooding during a 1% annual chance storm (often called a “100-year storm”). Coastal flooding and storm surges already invite kayakers onto the wharves, shut down the Blue Line, and makes many other areas of the…
Oct 20 2023
My family planted a Jane magnolia tree in our front yard on Earth Day. We picked this tree because it will be happy in our changing climate, it sits on our town’s “preferred tree list,” it won’t shade our roof-top solar, and my husband likes pink flowers. But despite our best efforts, it didn’t blossom…
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