Rachel is an economist and planner with a passion for data-driven decision making and policy rooted in local context. She works throughout the country on projects across EPS’s practice areas, with a focus on affordable housing analysis and policy, comprehensive and neighborhood planning, neighborhood stabilization strategies, and funding and financing plans for transit and other infrastructure. She enjoys using data and analysis to ground planning efforts, working to create strategies that can be successfully implemented.

Rachel joined EPS in 2015, after completing her Master of Regional Planning degree at Cornell University. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and History, a Bachelor of Education, and a Certificate in Geographic Information Science (GIS) from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. When she’s not crunching numbers and deep in policy analysis, Rachel is usually in the mountains skiing, hiking, camping, or adventuring in some way.

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