Sophie works to advance urban mobility and inclusive growth through transit-oriented development, affordable housing, and climate resiliency projects.

Based in the New York office, Sophie serves a range of clients across the country through economic development strategy, market analysis, program design, and stakeholder and community engagement.

Sophie has supported several economic development projects in the Washington, D.C. region, including work advising District government, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Prince George’s County, and Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT).

Prior to joining HR&A, Sophie served as the Regional Mobility and Infrastructure Intern at the Greater Washington Partnership. There, she researched best practices in equitable transit-oriented development for bus rapid transit in Richmond, Virginia, assessed Washington-area employers’ return-to-work plans, and supported advocacy for a D.C. bus network transformation.

Sophie holds a B.A. in History with Honors from Davidson College and a minor in Digital Studies. In her senior thesis, she explored the history of development in neighborhoods around the D.C. Metro and 1960s urban policy.

As an analyst in our New York office, Anna is passionate about equitable economic development, affordable housing, and urban resilience.

Before joining HR&A, Anna worked as a Program Associate at the Center for NYC Neighborhoods, where she assisted low- and middle- income homeowners across New York. She was previously an intern at Sam Schwartz Transportation Consultants and a Princeton in Asia Fellow in Phang Nga, Thailand, where she taught English at a public high school.

Anna received a B.A. in Urban Studies from Brown University. Her senior capstone project analyzed rental housing ownership in Providence, RI, in service to a local community-based organization. As a researcher with Brown’s Climate and Development Lab, Anna attended the 2017 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 23).

Kas works to develop policies and strategies that uplift and protect marginalized groups’ histories, cultures, and communities. She advises clients across sectors on harnessing the power of preservation for economic and community development, sustainability, housing affordability, and representation.

Kas works on issues of history, culture, and equity across disciplines – from planning and policy development for local government, to equity audits of monuments and memorials, to tools to mitigate cultural displacement for large-scale real estate developments. Kas leads all projects with a focus on people, working closely with stakeholders from grassroots community leaders to elected officials. She has extensive experience collaborating with local government staff to develop strategic plans focused on creating equitable outcomes for both government employees and the diverse communities they work in. Recent examples include Los Angeles County Planning’s latest strategic plan, a Historic and Cultural Preservation Strategy for the City of Dallas, and an Equity Audit of Monuments and Memorials for the San Francisco Arts Commission.

Throughout her training and experience, Kas has collaborated with community organizers, planners, real estate developers, designers, policymakers, community-based organizations, and philanthropists, and enjoys bringing everyone to the table and translating across sectors and disciplines to build support for important initiatives.

Before joining HR&A, Kas was a Community Engagement Fellow with the City of Baltimore’s Office of Sustainability and a Special Assistant to the Executive Director of the Center for Community Investment at the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. She has a lifetime of experience working and volunteering with community-based history museums in Dallas, Texas, Butte, Montana, and Baltimore, Maryland.

Kas holds a B.A. in Architecture and Urban Studies from Yale University and is currently pursuing a Graduate Certificate in Native American Studies from Montana State University. Kas is also a graduate of Downwinders at Risk’s community organizing college (taught by a leading Dallas environmental justice organization).

Kayla is at the forefront of creating equitable and just urban communities, working with a variety clients to develop policies and programs that support the country’s changing demographics. She supports HR&A’s Inclusive Cities practice, specializing in strategic planning and equitable governance.

Leveraging her journalism background, Kayla combines stakeholder engagement with research to develop plans that translate a client’s vision into actionable recommendations. She facilitates culture change across organizations, leading workshops and co-creating initiatives with clients in the public and nonprofit sectors. Recent work includes supporting Destination Crenshaw in developing a reparative framework to address longstanding displacement concerns in a historically Black community. Additionally, I worked to develop a strategic plan for the City of West Lafayette that balances town-gown relationships with anticipated population growth. We also created an opportunity assessment framework for the City of Raleigh Museum to support expanded operations and long-term planning.

Prior to joining HR&A, Kayla conducted field interviews throughout the Midwest and traveled on a research grant to eastern Germany to study transnational socioeconomic policy implementation in declining industrial centers. Kayla also analyzed historical and economic trends of eminent domain and highway development in Dallas as an Engaged Learning Fellow at Southern Methodist University.

Kayley works across digital equity, food justice, community development, and more to help build cities that are more just. She’s passionate about designing systems, programs, and places that better serve communities of color and the working class.

As part of the Broadband and Digital Equity Team, she’s managed statewide public engagement programs and conducted extensive quantitative and qualitative analyses to help several State’s write their digital equity plans and funnel millions of federal dollars into the communities most impacted by the digital divide. She’s also helped design digital equity programs for public, private, and nonprofit actors across the country to better deliver broadband service, devices, and digital literacy training.

Kayley has also advised various clients on real estate market and development projects, with a focus on revitalizing neighborhoods, preserving housing and commercial affordability, and delivering new community spaces and facilities. She also works on food system projects and policy issues at HR&A, bringing experience working with the Sweet Water Foundation in the South Side of Chicago, where she practiced urban farming and urban ecology as a means of regenerative neighborhood development.

Kayley graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Urban Studies.

Tommy specializes in policy development, organizational and operational strategy, and systems transformation to create just and equitable cities.

Partnering with local governments, civic organizations, and philanthropies, Tommy designs bold strategies to address systemic challenges and deliver measurable outcomes. With experience working both within government and alongside external coalitions, Tommy creates actionable policy agendas that tackle critical urban issues such as housing, homelessness, public safety, and economic development.

Tommy has supported new leaders in Allegheny County and Dallas during executive transitions, helping craft 100-day agendas that leverage moments of change to enact transformative solutions rooted in community values. In parallel, Tommy brings deep expertise in supporting coalitions to align stakeholders, set strategic priorities, and drive measurable impact. In San Francisco and New Orleans, Tommy facilitated agenda-setting processes with labor unions, advocacy groups, and community organizations to develop plans that shape public discourse and influence governing agendas.

His work extends to transforming public sector structures and advancing equity through governance strategies. Tommy led the development of SACOG’s Engage, Empower, Implement Framework, fostering equitable partnerships between community-based organizations and local jurisdictions, and guided the creation of the Chicago’s New Arrivals Cabinet, charged with advancing compassionate integration of new residents. In Dallas, Tommy played a key role in the creation of the Community Development Unit to drive equitable real estate development, and in Oakland, crafted a roadmap to strengthen worker protections through the Department of Workplace and Employment Standards. In New York City, Tommy helped establish the first centralized civic engagement office, defining its mission and creating evaluation frameworks to enhance participation and accountability. Tommy’s work is driven by a belief in the transformative power of responsive and equitable governance to address systemic challenges, uplift communities, and create lasting change.

Tommy holds a Master’s in Urban Planning from New York University and a Bachelor’s in Construction Management from the University of Florida.

Marielle helps public and private sector clients create and sustain great places to live, work, and visit.

Based in HR&A’s North Carolina office, she conducts analysis for projects ranging in focus from urban resilience and environmental justice to market analysis and financial feasibility for development. She also supports parks, open spaces, and mixed-use developments with effective and ambitious operations, funding, partnership, and implementation strategies.

Her work draws on her background in community economic development. Prior to joining HR&A, Marielle was part of LISC’s national economic development team and helped restructure and grow LISC’s national program with Kiva, a crowdfunded microlending platform designed to expand access to capital for small businesses. She also supported the design and implementation of several LISC small business recovery funds at the beginning of the pandemic.

She holds a Masters in Community and Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina, where she worked with NCGrowth and the Development Finance Initiative to advance equitable economic development projects across North Carolina. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History, with Sustainability and Urban Studies minors from the University of Michigan.

Shoshana is an Analyst based in the New York office. She is passionate about equitable urban development, parks and open spaces, and resilient climate adaptation planning.

At HR&A, Shoshana has supported clients in building cases for investment in resilient infrastructure, parks, and open spaces. She has also supported the development of master plans for parks and park systems through business planning and regional and national positioning studies. Shoshana has supported the development of statewide plans for broadband and digital equity, among other projects.

Prior to joining HR&A, Shoshana interned at The Public Interest Law Center supporting attorneys in housing and environmental justice work. After undergrad, Shoshana joined the New York City Urban Fellows program for a 9-month urban policy fellowship. There, she worked at NYC Parks on their Planning and Parklands teams supporting work around urban agriculture, broadband access, and NYC Parks stewardship of New York’s historic public cemetery, Hart Island.

Shoshana has a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies with Honors from the University of Pennsylvania, and a minor in Sustainability and Environmental Management.

Mark supports the internal business using data analytics to aid in making decisions on strategic initiatives about growth, people, and operations.

Mark Siriban joins HR&A’s New York City office as a Business Analyst. Mark has over 3 years of financial tech consulting experience in both the delivery and sales capacity. His previous position was as an Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Consultant at Frontera Consulting, where he implemented Oracle financial systems in planning and budgeting for organizations as large as 50,000 employees across various industries. Prior to the consulting position, Mark was the sole Sales Operations Analyst and Administrator supporting the global Frontera sales team with offices in New York City, London, and Hong Kong. In this role, he assisted in all sales opportunities and worked cross functionally within the firm for data compliance, security, and data analytics.

Mark graduated with a Bachelor of Sciences in Economics from the University at Albany, SUNY.