Background
Chrissy leads the fiscal analysis of MPC’s projects, studying the economic impacts and effectiveness of how dollars are spent on transportation, water, and economic and community development. She then develops recommendations for smarter and innovative revenue, spending and program policies. Chrissy also analyzes and makes recommendations on federal, state, and local tax policies as well as operational and capital budget policies that align with MPC’s goals.
Prior to joining MPC, Chrissy was the associate executive director of a Chicago-based fiscal policy think tank where she worked on tax, budget and education funding policies, including drafting legislation to reform Illinois’ education and tax systems and modeling its impacts. She also served as a management analyst at the United States Dept. of Education and was a seventh-grade teacher in Washington, DC. Her work on the correlation between education and tax policy has been awarded with the Northwestern University Graduate School’s Distinguished Thesis Award for her thesis, The Implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in Illinois, which analyzed each component of NCLB compared with state and federal fiscal policies to find how tax policy affects the implementation of the law at the local level.
Chrissy is a member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management. She lives in Chicago’s Roscoe Village neighborhood with her husband and occasionally crazy dog, Brutus and spends her free time rescuing homeless dogs.
Areas of expertise
- Tax policy
- Transportation policy
- Federal, state and local government spending and revenue
- Education policy and funding
- Economic development
Education
M.P.P.A., Public Policy, Northwestern University
B.S., Education and Political Science, Youngstown State University
