Carrie is a transportation planner with ambitions to build connections through equitable, sustainable, and resilient infrastructure.
As the Philadelphia Office Director at Toole Design, she specializes in active transportation, shared spaces, and helping clients prepare for emerging mobility services and strengthen multimodal connections. She is an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania and previously led the University’s Center for Safe Mobility, where she developed new ways of understanding mobility, wayfinding, and safety to inform the policies that shape the design of our streets and transportation systems.
Advocacy for livable and sustainable infrastructure has always been a priority, which Carrie decided to pursue full-time after a studio at UC Berkeley. Her background includes experience at local and national housing and community development nonprofits in New York, where she coordinated national homelessness initiatives and regional disaster recovery efforts. She worked for several years as an Associate Planner in the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission Office of Transit, Bicycle, and Pedestrian Planning, and holds a Masters in City Planning from Penn with a concentration in sustainable infrastructure planning. Prior to joining Toole, Carrie was a member of the Advanced Mobility Group at Gannett Fleming, where she supported Federal and State DOTs to prepare for and equitably integrate connected, shared, and electric mobility, with an emphasis on workforce development and organizational readiness. Her work has been published in Accident Analysis & Prevention, Issues in Science and Technology, Transportation Research Record, Injury Prevention, Institute of Transportation Engineers Journal, Panorama, and Applied Psychology: An International Review, and featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer and PennToday.
Outside of work, Carrie volunteers with the Community Design Collaborative, Urban Land Institute, ITE, and Women's Transportation Seminar, and participates on several local committees. For these efforts, she was awarded the Community Design Award, the Mid-Colonial District Rising Star Award, the Mary Ellen Horn Award, and the Outstanding Volunteer Team Award.