Lauren Nolan, AICP is a doctoral student at the Bloustein School for Planning & Public Policy at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on urban change and inequality. She is the previous Director of Research for the Woodstock Institute, a Chicago-based nonprofit research and policy organization working in the areas of fair lending, wealth creation, and financial systems reform. Lauren holds a Master of City Planning from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame.