Lauren Nolan

Education

PhD, Planning & Public Policy, Rutgers University
Master of City Planning, University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Arts, University of Notre Dame

Biography

Lauren Nolan, Ph.D., AICP, is an Assistant Professor in the UW-Milwaukee Department of Urban Planning specializing in economic development, community development, and housing. Her research uses quantitative and qualitative methods to study how communities pursue development in the context of urban change and inequality. Her recent work examines the proliferation of large-scale warehousing and distribution facilities and how communities are responding to impending logistics-oriented development. Lauren also studies issues of housing access and insecurity and is the previous Director of Research for the Woodstock Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit research and policy organization focusing on issues of fair lending, wealth creation, and economic justice within financial systems. Prior to that, she served as a researcher for the Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lauren is a certified planner and member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP).