Immediate Past President

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I am an urban planner who has built a career that includes work for government and nonprofit organizations. I aim to create and sustain equitable places and build organizational capacity to make change possible. I am currently executive director of the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments, a regional planning agency and metropolitan planning organization based in Lowell.

I also work with regional, state, and national groups on municipal, planning, and housing issues. I am a member of the Brookline Housing Advisory Board, Brookline Community Preservation Committee, and Massachusetts Municipal Association Municipal and Regional Administration Policy Committee. I am a Climate Reality Leader with the Climate Reality Project.

I have served the American Planning Association since 2004. I am currently on the National Legislative and Policy Steering Committee and am the State Chapter Legislative and Policy Officer. As co-chair of national cross-sector task forces, I developed Policy Guides for the American Planning Association on housing and aging in community and developed campaigns to encourage communities to address housing affordability and availability through improved local planning. I served as an expert panelist for a Congressional Subcommittee on Transportation Housing and Urban Development hearing providing testimony on building climate resilience into federal funding programs.

Growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia and Washington D.C. amplified my awareness of transit access and equity issues, as well as the long-term impact of transformative transit investments. My professional and personal experiences are incorporated into frequent lectures, trainings, and presentations. My affordable housing, fair housing, municipal collaboration, and transportation work has been awarded and recognized by the Massachusetts Housing Partnership, Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA), American Planning Association, Massachusetts Municipal Association, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Women's Transportation Seminar, and local and regional jurisdictions.