Stefanie Tye
Research Associate, Climate Resilience Practice

Stefanie is a Research Associate in the Climate Resilience Practice (CRP) within WRI's Center for Equitable Development. Stefanie co-develops technical guidance, information and tools to help national and subnational decision-makers plan for and implement climate adaptation and resilience. Currently, she is involved in projects related to Nature-based Solutions, Locally Led Adaptation, and supporting long-term adaptation planning strategies in Latin America and the Caribbean. Her recent work at WRI includes designing case studies and recommendations on how to integrate adaptation into health systems and coastal resilience, as well as technical assistance to Costa Rica's coffee sector. She has also conducted analysis of adaptation tools and user needs, and research on transformative adaptation and climate change uncertainty. Additionally, she helped develop the PREPdata online platform.
Prior to WRI, Stefanie worked at the global Indigenous grassroots organization Land is Life. Stefanie grew up in Mexico and has an M.A. in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University, specializing in climate resilience and sustainable cities.
She holds a B.A. from NYU in Global Liberal Studies: Politics, Human Rights & Economic Development with a minor in Latin American Studies.
Stefanie is passionate about languages and experiencing new cultures. She is also an avid reader, particularly of all things connected to behavioral economics and the circular economy.
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Adaptation Finance and Investment
Visit ProjectWRI aims to make climate risks more visible and actionable for governments, the financial sector and private industry to catalyze adaptation investments.
Part of EquityClimate Resilient and Transformative Adaptation for Agriculture
Visit ProjectWRI aims to help small-scale agricultural producers in low- and middle-income countries build resilience to climate change through research, analysis, advocacy and stakeholder engagement.
Part of Climate ResilienceMainstreaming Adaptation
Visit ProjectStrengthening the resilience of sustainable development in a warming world
Part of Climate ResilienceClimate Resilience
Visit ProjectAccelerating adaptation action and support for vulnerable people by working with governments, multilateral institutions, communities and other partners.
Part of EquityPREPdata
Launch PlatformLaunch Platform Visit ProjectVisualizing data to build climate resilience
Part of Climate ResilienceLocally Led Adaptation
Launch PlatformLaunch Platform Visit ProjectWRI and partners seek to bring about a new paradigm that puts communities and local actors at the center of decision-making and funding for climate adaptation.
Part of Climate ResilienceAgriAdapt
Launch PlatformLaunch Platform Visit ProjectAgriAdapt is a free online tool that helps agricultural funders, processors, distributors, government agencies, and other “missing middle” links of agricultural value chains better identify and understand the climate change risks they face.
Part of Climate