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Natasha Lawrence

Fellow_PublicPolicy_Headshot _lawrence_natasha

Natasha Lawrence

Organization

Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston

Program

Rappaport Public Finance Fellow

Year

2020

Links

Greater Boston Applied Field Lab Summary of Activities 2019 - 2020

This Rappaport Public Finance Summer Fellowship provides a stipend to students who undertake a project related to public finance. Traditionally these projects have been a continuation of work conducted in Greater Boston Applied Field Lab: Advanced Budgeting, Financial Management and Operations lab offered by Professor Linda Bilmes.

Graduate School
Harvard Kennedy School

Placement
MBTA

Supervisor
Samantha Silverberg, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer

Project Description
Natasha spent her summer focused on the MBTA’s Covid-19 response, ensuring continuity of service at the transit agency. Her primary initiative was leading a cross-functional team to ensure that 900 employees could safely and smoothly transition to remote work. Under her leadership, she rewrote agency policies, designed internal processes, conducted cost benefit financial analysis and facilitated extensive employee outreach.