Jessie Partridge Guerrero

Department: Data Services
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 617-933-0726

Biography:

Jessie Partridge Guerrero is Director of Data Services at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, Greater Boston’s regional planning agency. She leads a team of a team of planners, GIS and research analysts, and web developers dedicated to using data and technology to support informed and equitable decision-making. The Data Services department works across a broad spectrum of topics on a wide variety of activities to advance the vision of MAPC’s regional plan, MetroCommon2050. Primary activities of the team include mapping and data analysis for local planning projects, research and data development, demographic and land use forecasting, creation of web-based tools, digital equity planning and implementation, and legislative advocacy. Jessie’s expertise is in cross-disciplinary quantitative and mixed-methods research with a focus on equity. She is passionate about taking complex research and information and making it accessible and engaging to broad audiences through narrative development, storytelling, and implementation of compelling data visualizations and graphics.

Jessie has been with MAPC since 2013, and served as research manager and a research analyst prior to becoming director. Prior to MAPC, she was a research consultant at Community Labor United, where she co-authored Route to Our Future, a report detailing equitable and sustainable policy strategies for Massachusetts’ regional transit systems. She also worked as a process engineer at Mott MacDonald, where she specialized in process simulation and detailed engineering design in the renewable energy field.

She holds a Master of Arts in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Biological Engineering, both from Tufts University.