Emily Dowdall, M.C.P., joined the Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management in the fall of 2009, as a Policy Research Associate. She is responsible for developing and supporting projects that explore the linkages between transportation and other policy arenas, including economic development, housing, health, education and sustainability.
Earlier in 2009, Emily founded the Planning Collective, a firm that worked with Penn Praxis to present the 2009 Regional Infrastructure Charette at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Design. Her past research projects include the rehabilitation of traditional industrial space for 21st century craft manufacturing and infrastructure planning in the Casablanca, Morocco region. In the fall of 2008 Emily helped develop a strategic partnership for urban agriculture in Philadelphia that incorporated a community supported agriculture (CSA) enterprise, which began operation in the spring of 2009, and a workforce development component. Emily has worked as an analyst for Bennett Midland LLC, a civic sector management consulting firm, and she conducted policy analysis and development for the Criminal Justice Coordinator in the New York City Mayor’s Office from 2004 to 2007.
She holds a Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from New York University.
