Graduate School
MIT

Undergraduate School
Queen’s College

Mentor
Monica Tibbits-Nutt, Executive Director, 128 Business Council and Rappaport Institute Advisory Board Member and Kathleen Mayell, Transportation Planning Manager, City of Minneapolis and former Rappaport Public Policy Fellow

Agency
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Supervisor
Reggie Ramos, Director of Pilots and Innovation and Andrew Stuntz, Senior Manager of Fare Policy Analysis

Description of Fellowship
Lauren worked with the MBTA Policy team on outlining a fare policy strategy to accompany the Rail Transformation, designing a pilot proposal for off-peak fares on commuter rail and building a model to examine the ridership, revenue, and Title VI impacts of different future fare scenarios. Lauren also worked on pilot policy, creating a series of principles, checklists, and processes to streamline how pilots get proposed and evaluated.