Bridget Fisher is a doctoral student at the Bloustein School for Planning & Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on the relationships between municipal finance, land, and equity. Bridget formerly served as the Associate Director of The New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA), where she remains an affiliated researcher working on urban redevelopment projects and land-based financing tools. Bridget previously worked in the New York City Council, New York’s Working Families Party, and the U.S. House of Representatives. Bridget received her Master’s in Public Administration with a focus on urban economic development from CUNY’s Baruch College and a BA in public communication and women’s studies from American University.