Biography
Curt Newton is Director of MIT OpenCourseWare, a free and open collection of materials from thousands of MIT courses used by millions of learners and educators around the world. His personal mission is to put open education in service of equitable climate action. At MIT, he currently serves on the institute's climate education working group, and previously helped build the ClimateX online resource which became the MIT Climate portal. As a citizen, Curt facilitates community games and workshops with the Climate Interactive En-ROADS simulator, is a volunteer leader in the Boston Green New Deal Coalition and 350 Mass, and lives in a net-zero energy retrofit home.