Urban Policy Experts

Transport / Housing / Land Use / Politics / @urbaninstitute.bsky.social / Le progrès ne vaut que s’il est partagé par tous / yonahfreemark.com / thetransportpolitic.com

The Urban Institute is a research-to-impact institution founded on one simple idea: To improve lives and strengthen communities, we need practices and policies that work.

All things climate change, adaptation, and affordable housing. Social policy researcher and co-lead of the Climate and Communities Program at Urban Institute. 📍DC with past lives in SF Bay Area, Santiago and Austin.

Health and tax policy and law, private insurance, Marketplaces, 1332 waivers, admin burdens. Led ACA implementation at Treasury. Now Urban Institute, SHVS, and Yale Solomon Center.

VP Justice & Safety, Urban Institute. Research on prisons, jails, and systems change. Alum of Georgia, Indiana, and UC Irvine. Adjunct Faculty, CUNY. Alabama native. 🏳️‍🌈 #criminaljustice #criminology #corrections #prisonreform #crimsky

Detroiter. Sociologist. Michigan 💙💛. Will argue about sports.

K-12 ed lead at Urban Institute. Georgia Policy Labs founding senior director. RPPs, integrated data, veggie grower, and mama, too.

Institute Fellow & Co-Director Disability Equity Policy Initiative @UrbanInstitute. Views my own.

Director of Data Visualization, Urban Institute • Alum USA TODAY Investigations, Undark magazine, Esquire, Science Friday • Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT ‘14 • Taught @ Northeastern • Built Storybench.org • Peruano-gringo • Living in Cleveland OH

(Was) Disability+API+QT equity, foundation relations and DEI @UrbanInstitute. @UrbanInst_Union shill. BFA dramaturgy/directing @TheatreSchool. Views mine. FL+DC+CHI. they/them

Lead data visualization engineer at the Urban Institute. Otherwise reading books, riding bikes, listening to music, or talking a walk. 💻 mitchellthorson.com 📍 Brooklyn, NY