Background
Chrissy directs the Metropolitan Planning Council's (MPC) transportation work at the federal, state and local levels. She focuses on implementing innovative financing tools such as using value capture and private sector partnership to fund transit, reducing the demand for future transportation resources by creating incentives for denser, transit-oriented developments and managing parking, and making the most of existing transportation infrastructure through congestion pricing and technology. Chrissy also is working with Congress and national partners to establish performance metrics in the federal transportation authorization that include economic development and local involvement. She staffed Mayor Rahm Emanuel's Transportation and Infrastructure transition committee and is working with the Midway Advisory Panel that is evaluating a potential public-private partnership at Midway Airport, the first such deal in the nation. Chrissy also serves on the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's Technical Advisory Group on the Fiscal and Economic Impacts of Development Decisions.
Prior to joining MPC, Chrissy was the associate executive director of a Chicago-based fiscal policy think tank, where she worked on tax, budget and education funding policies, including drafting legislation to reform Illinois’ education and tax systems and modeling its impacts. She also served as a management analyst at the U.S. Dept. of Education, and was a seventh-grade teacher in Washington, DC. Chrissy was awarded the Northwestern University Graduate School’s Distinguished Thesis Award for The Implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in Illinois, which analyzed each component of NCLB compared with state and federal fiscal policies to find how tax policy affects the implementation of the law at the local level.
Chrissy is a member of the American Economic Association and the American Evaluation Association. She lives in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood.
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Areas of expertise
- Tax policy
- Transportation policy
- Innovative finance for infrastructure
- Federal, state and local government spending and revenue
Education
M.P.P.A., Public Policy, Northwestern University
B.S., Education and Political Science, Youngstown State University