Jessie Grogan
Director of Equity and Opportunity
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jessie joined the Lincoln Institute in July 2016, with a broad portfolio of urban development activities, including work on scenario planning and spatial inequality. Prior to that, she worked as a Policy Analyst at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the Regional Planning Agency for Greater Boston, from 2007-2016. At MAPC, she was the co-author of The State of Equity in Metro Boston Indicators Report and Policy Agenda; was involved in drafting the MetroFuture regional plan; and helped lead the creation and management of Metro Boston’s Sustainable Communities Consortium, formed with a grant from HUD to implement the MetroFuture plan. Jessie has a BA in political science from Simon’s Rock College and a MA in Public Policy from the Heller School at Brandeis University.
In the News
- Highway Removal: Reconnecting Neighborhoods and the Natural Environment (APM Research Lab)
- Can You Force the Suburbs to Build Apartments? Massachusetts Is Trying. (Slate)
- All for one, and none for all: Is banning single-family zoning easing the housing crisis? (Boston Globe)
- Memphis facing another highway decision with Tom Lee Park project | Opinion (Commercial Appeal)
- The impact of highway removal on cities (Public Square)