About

I am a human who is dedicated to building sustainable, inclusive communities through trust-building, institutional reform, and policy change. I have worked and consulted for a diverse range of organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in ways that directly improve peoples’ lives. My portfolio of research/doing/advising/writing includes nationally-cited qualitative and quantitative research projects, contributions to various local coalition advocacy campaigns, policy development, and strategic planning workshops for public agency staff. I currently work at the Natural Resources Defense Council, advising cities on transportation policy and project implementation as part of the American Cities Climate Challenge.

I studied environmental engineering at Columbia University and then focused on the intersection of technology, urbanism, and public policy at MIT. In addition to all of the above, I’m interested in and draw inspiration from journalism, art, cooking, and lots of other things. I’d love to talk more.

Things I’ve created

You can also view my full CV here, and a list of published writing and media here.

A few projects I’ve led:

Derailed is a deep dive into the planning process, political campaign, and other circumstances that all contributed to Nashville’s high-profile transit referendum failure in May 2018. I designed and led this project with and as a consultant to TransitCenter while based in Nashville, building a local stakeholder network, planning and leading interviews, writing and editing the report, and supporting press outreach and promotion.

Inclusive Transit is the first report to summarize and highlight opportunities for transit agencies to improve racial equity and advance social justice. I designed and led this project through the editorial phase—from concept development through research,  writing and editing—then handed it off to my TransitCenter colleagues for layout and release. 

I designed TransitCenter’s Ridership Initiative to create and shape the public conversation about how transit industry leaders could best respond to widespread, pre-COVID declines in transit ridership. This project paired original analysis (including a since-updated interactive ridership analysis tool) with original case study content sourced directly from the practitioners who know their work best (NB: linked posts from Nov 2017 – June 2018). 

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Writing and media

Transportation policy and planning

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People I’ve worked with

  • TransitCenter
  • Project Drawdown