Anna Claussen

Senior Program Associate

Anna joined IATP in April 2011 to support the Rural Communities program. A landscape architect by training, Anna bridges years of practice in urban design and planning with a life deeply rooted on a Minnesota family farm. Over the last decade, Anna has focused on creating resilient communities through the creation of alternative land-use plans, regional greenway studies, city comprehensive plans, and park and trail system plans for communities across the state and the Upper Midwest. Her work at IATP focuses on biomass and the bioenergy economy; as well as the creation and retention of natural and social wealth within rural communities in order to improve the quality of life for all residents. Anna has a bachelor’s degree in geography and studio arts from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota and a master’s degree in landscape architecture from the College of Design at the University of Minnesota.