Emma Swarney – Rappaport

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Year

2023

Rappaport Public Policy Fellows spend 10 weeks each summer serving within the highest levels of state and municipal governments in the Greater Boston Area. The program includes students from graduate and professional programs at local universities.

Graduate School
MIT

Undergraduate School
University of Waterloo, Toronto, Canada

Fellowship
Massachusetts Department of Transportation

Supervisor
Hayes Morrison, Assistant Secretary, Policy and Strategy

Mentors
Steve Poftak, Taubman Center Visiting Fellow and former General Manager of the MBTA and Andrew McFarland, Project Manager, Transit Priority, MBTA and 2019 Rappaport Policy Fellow

Biography
Emma’s project will focus on a nationwide look at how the transportation sector is implementing their decarbonization efforts with a focus on integrating with the newly created Office of Climate Innovation and Resilience in Massachusetts. She will be taking a special focus on decarbonization efforts in public transportation, looking at both electrification of vehicles and mode shift.