Planner: Biography

I was born and raised a Hoosier. My interest in planning was first sparked when I spoke with a community planner from Indianapolis.  She explained the duties and responsibilities of a practicing planner.  I later applied and was accepted to the College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University.  While at Ball State, I became a member of the American, Student, and the Indiana Planning Associations.

I have been involved with writing and developing neighborhood, corridor and economic development plans for understaffed towns and cities across Indiana. During my senior year, I interned with the City of Hammond's Planning Department. In graduate school, I was employed through Ball State and worked in their Community Outreach Program (COPC).  I'm particularly interested in both land-use planning and reinvestment/renovation of urban and rural spaces. I'm fascinated with the advancements in the technological side of planning, and enjoy working with statistical and GIS software packages.