Teresa Crean is an AICP-Certified Planner who joined the town of Barrington, RI as Director of Planning, Building, and Resilience in January 2022. Before joining the town of Barrington, she served for 14 years as a community planner and coastal management extension specialist with the University of Rhode Island’s Coastal Resources Center and Rhode Island Sea Grant. In this role, Teresa facilitated both state and municipal-scale projects that addressed mapping coastal hazards and communicating risk related to climate-related coastal change: storm surge, coastal erosion, and rising seas. This work employed a research and planning process that integrated the best available science with engagement among a broad range of stakeholders, decision makers and the public. Teresa also worked for non-profit regional planning commissions and for planning/design firms in the private sector. She earned a Master of Landscape Architecture (M.L.A.) from the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse, a B.S. in Environmental Policy/Natural Resource Management from the University of Michigan.
