Amelia builds frameworks and strategies to improve government systems and combat disenfranchisement.

 

Primarily through HR&A’s Digital Opportunity practice, Amelia’s work has focused on advising government partners to improve public access to and use of technology, via improvements in civic tech, expansion of broadband infrastructure and developing digital equity policy. Prior to joining HR&A, Amelia managed editorial and podcasting content for Archinect, an online architecture and urbanism publication and reported as a freelancer for Bloomberg’s CityLab, Curbed.com, Places Journal, Hyperallergic, covering topics from street vending policy to art in transit stations. She served as guest editor for the Van Alen Institute’s editorial series on cities and mental health, and an anthology of papers for the 2018 Conscious Cities conference.

Her graduate school work focused on the intersection of scientific and urban planning methodologies, including presenting at the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture conference (2018) and thesis research on public health and neighborhood planning, conducted in partnership with an epidemiological study on brain health at Massachusetts General Hospital (2019). She has also supported research on municipal managed retreat policy while an associate at the Consensus Building Institute, a non-profit dispute resolution and mediation firm.

Amelia has a Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Masters of City Planning from MIT.

Member, Urban Land Institute

Member, ULI Health Leaders Network 2020