Lauren Mathisen, Mpa Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Greater Seattle Area

Manage financing of Yesler Terrace affordable housing redevelopment projects.

Greater Seattle Area

Provided policy research and analysis and wrote legislation related to housing affordability and homelessness for the King County Council, enabling the Council to select the mix of programs and funding that best support healthy, diverse communities and ending homelessness in King County, Washington.

Greater Seattle Area

Coordinate affordable housing development projects aimed at ending the homelessness of vulnerable people, particularly those living with serious mental or addictive illnesses.

Greater Seattle Area

Led project researching and evaluating affordable housing organizations' development and management of first-floor commercial space required in most multi-family residential buildings in the City of Seattle.

Greater Seattle Area

• Clients: City of Seattle Office of Housing; Department of Planning and Development
• Issued report for anticipated circulation to Seattle City Council: “Best Practices in Equitable Transit-Oriented Development and Recommendations for the Seattle Context.”
• Established a robust definition of and identified best practices for equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD) via extensive literature and government document review and interviews with a diverse set of both.
• Evaluated complex policy tools for local applicability to creating equitable, compact communities.

Greater Seattle Area

• Clearly synthesized and communicated multiple nationally recognized, data-driven transportation and real estate policy projects to a variety of public and private stakeholders
• Prepared model municipal code for cities and best practices for the real estate development community in response to research findings and stakeholder input
• Facilitated pilot projects by non-profit, public, and private partners to test research and recommendations with market rate and affordable housing developers, Zipcar, and others
• Fostered joint county/federal procurement, consultant, and partnership contracting processes

Greater Seattle Area

• Coordinated marketing for second phase of program to mitigate impact of major downtown construction project on businesses and consumers via access to real-time parking information
• Developed and managed Seattle’s most successful Walk Bike Ride Challenge, an incentive program to reduce drive-alone trips

Greater Portland Area

• Local leader of major conversion to highly complex cataloging and customer records database
• Established online presence of organization though social networking
• Senior staff of library department with the highest service demand in the state of Oregon

Portland, Oregon Area

• Provided research and technical assistance to all members of a diverse community in fast-paced environment
• Utilized complex print and electronic resources to serve information and referral needs of community

Master Of Public Administration (M.P.A.), Local Governance And Urban Policy

Activities and Societies: Member, Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society; Co-Chair, Metropol: Metropolitan and Urban Policy Student Interest Group

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Liberal Arts; Political Economy