Employment

Federal Transit Administration, Region 3

Lead Community Planner | Philadelphia, PA                                                           

March 2024 - February 2025

City of Philadelphia, Streets Department

Acting Capital Planning Supervisor | Philadelphia, PA                                                           

May 2023 - March 2024

City of Philadelphia, Streets Department

Transportation Planner | Philadelphia, PA                                                              

September 2021 - April 2023

Clark County, Washington

Community Planner | Vancouver, WA                                                              

March 2021 - August 2021

Nelson\Nygaard

Associate Planner | Portland, OR                                                              

October 2016 - May 2020

 

Ann Arbor Area Transportation Authority

Service Development Intern | Ann Arbor, MI                                                                      

October 2014 - June 2016

 

University of Michigan

Graduate Student Instructor | Ann Arbor, MI                                              

January 2016 - April 2016

 

Michigan Environmental Council

Policy Associate | Lansing, MI                                                                          

April 2013 - August 2014

 

Transportation for Michigan (Trans4M)

Policy Fellow | Lansing, MI                                                                                            

January - April 2013

 

Friends of Jim Townsend

Campaign Intern | Madison Heights, MI                                                        

September - November 2012

 

Michigan State University Greenline

Telemarketer | East Lansing, MI                                                                          

March 2010 - June 2012

 

Mercedes-Benz Financial Services USA

Purchasing + Logistics Intern | Farmington Hills, MI                                

June - August 2011

 

Additional Work

Sommerville Studio

Business Manager, Paint Assistant | Philadelphia, PA                              

October 2020 - Present

 

Agora Journal of Urban Planning + Design

Director of Production + Distribution | Ann Arbor, MI                              

September 2014 - May 2016

 

Alta Planning + Design

Planning Extern | Portland, OR                                                                              

March 2016

 

Nelson\Nygaard

Planning Extern | Portland, OR                                                                              

March 2016

 

Farr Associates Architecture + Urban Design

Planning Extern | Chicago, IL                                                                                              

March 2015

Education

University of Michigan

Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Ann Arbor, MI

Master of Urban Planning | April 2016                                    

Concentration: Physical Planning + Design

                      

Michigan State University

James Madison College                                              

East Lansing, MI

Bachelor of Arts, International Relations | May 2012                

Concentration: Environmental Policy

 

Computer Skills

Visualization: Adobe Creative Suite, ArcGIS, Google MyMaps, Google Earth, Whiteboard, SketchUp, Streetmix

Data: US Census Data, TrAMS, National Transit Database, FTIS iNTD, SurveyMonkey, ECMS, PHLContracts, ADPICS, B2Gnow, Smarking, IPS Data Management System, Remix

Web: Squarespace, Social Media

Online Meetings: Zoom, Skype, Teams, Meet, WebEx, Slack

Project Management: Asana, Trello, Planner

Office: Microsoft, Google

 

Affiliations

Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT)

Member | August 2017 - Present

Michigan Association of Railroad Passengers (MARP)

Member | July 2014 - Present

 

Model United Nations Alumni Club of Michigan State University (MUNAC-MSU)

Co-Founder, Member | September 2013 - Present

American Planning Association (APA)

Member | October 2014 - October 2020

Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) International

Member | December 2018 - December 2020

Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU)

Member | May 2016 - December 2019

Recognition 

2015 TRU Rising Transit Star Award Nominee