Stephanie Allen

Stephanie Allen brings experience in research, data analysis, and geographic information systems (GIS) to Market Street.  As a Project Assistant, Ms. Allen provides research support for many of Market Street’s projects and presentations.  Ms. Allen has worked on a variety of projects at Market Street including economic development strategies and visioning processes in Wheeling, WV; Missouri; Montgomery, AL; Murray County, GA; Springfield, MO; Des Moines, IA; Nashville, TN; and San Marcos, TX; a tax competitiveness analysis for Jacksonville, FL; and a target cluster analysis for St. Louis, MO. 

Prior to her time at Market Street, Ms. Allen worked as a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, teaching courses in formal logic and encouraging students to apply their critical thinking skills outside of the classroom.  She has also worked with students at Milwaukee’s SUPAR high-school (a charter school for urban planning and architecture).

Ms. Allen currently telecommutes from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  She did graduate work in urban planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, specializing in Environmental Planning and Policy, Geographic Information Systems, and Community Development.  During that time, she also worked as a teaching assistant in the schools of Public Policy and Architecture for courses in Applied Ethics and Urban Planning.

Ms. Allen holds master’s and bachelor’s degrees in philosophy.  As an undergraduate at Bard College, she was awarded the William E. Lensing Prize for excellence in philosophical study.  She continues to study philosophy in her free time and is currently working on a paper analyzing 19th century American philosopher William James’s contentious theory of truth.  She also has interests in educational theory and policy as well as workforce development; she has training in environmental science and environmental ethics, and is a member of the American Planning Association.