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Hannah Lang is a freelance writer in Charlotte. Most recently, she covered banking, finance and economic equity for The Charlotte Observer. Her work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the Triangle Business Journal and the Greensboro News & Record. She studied business journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and […]

Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling (PhD, University of Oregon) is a Professor in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. She is core faculty in the Clinical Health Psychology Ph.D. program and a licensed Health Services Psychologist in NC. Dr. L-R is an established scholar with over 150 peer-reviewed publications, as well […]

Biography Chuck McShane is vice president of research at the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance where he is responsible for strategic economic development, workforce and policy research and analysis. He is also a freelance writer whose work regularly appears in Charlotte Magazine and Our State. Chuck started his career as a staff reporter and copy editor […]

Biography Jeff Michael is past director of the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute. A planner and attorney by training, his professional experience includes extensive work around land use, sustainable development and land conservation issues. Prior to coming to the institute in 2003, Jeff served as director of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative and the William C. Friday […]

Dr. Eric Moore a is a senior research associate for the Charlotte Urban Institute. He earned his doctorate in political science from Binghamton University in 2018 with a focus on voter behavior, electoral institutions, and quantitative research methods. While he has worked predominantly in higher educational settings, Dr. Moore always enjoys working with data and […]

Amy Hawn Nelson is a member of the Research Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, and serves as the Director of Training and Technical Assistance for Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, an initiative out of UPenn that focuses on the development, use, and innovation of integrated data systems (IDS) for policy analysis and program reform. […]

Charlotte Regional Data Trust Member For more than 15 years, Mary Ann Priester has worked with vulnerable and underserved populations, particularly individuals experiencing homelessness. She is a senior management analyst for Mecklenburg County Community Support Services on the Housing, Innovation, and Stabilization Services team. In this role, she serves as the Housing and Homelessness Data […]

Rachel Siegal received her doctorate in Health Psychology with a concentration in Community Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is committed to using research to drive equitable system-, policy-, and organizational-level changes to create health promoting environments.