Ellen Anderson Cutter, AICP

Ellen Anderson Cutter joined Market Street in 2005. As Director of Research for Market Street, Ms. Cutter directs its research systems, trains employees and clients on emerging data products and methodologies, and serves in an advisory role in all company projects and alongside Market Street's project teams, provides hands-on analysis during client meetings and research presentations. Ms. Cutter is one of the firm's four Principals and Shareholders.

Previously, as a Project Associate and Research Manager, Ms. Cutter performed economic and demographic research in more than a dozen states, including work in Austin, Texas; Gwinnett County, Georgia; Mandan, North Dakota; Montgomery, Alabama; Coachella Valley, California; Nashville, Tennessee; and in several individual communities  and at the state level in Missouri and West Virginia.

In 2008, Ms. Cutter contributed to an exhibition at the Chicago History Museum exploring the linkages between Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago and a proposed regional high-speed rail network. Before joining Market Street, Ms. Cutter worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer with Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE), a community development initiative sponsored by the University of Oregon, the State of Oregon’s Economic and Community Development Department, and the United States Department of Agriculture. While serving as the special project manager for a port district in rural Oregon, Ms. Cutter managed the redevelopment of a local marine park, wrote and administered grants from state and federal agencies, facilitated the port’s strategic planning process, and worked to revitalize the community’s downtown area. While pursuing her undergraduate degree in Chicago, Ms. Cutter contributed research to the Center for Urban Research and Learning on housing market discrimination. Ms. Cutter also actively volunteered at the Nathalie Salomon House, a Chicago Housing Authority residence for the elderly.  

Ms. Cutter holds a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in economic development and land use, and Bachelor of Science from Loyola University Chicago. Ms. Cutter was certified by the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) in 2009 and is an IEDC and ACCE presenter and author of a recent article on diversity in Chamber Executive magazine. Ms. Cutter resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana.