Sarah Philbrick

Department: Data Services – Research
Email: [email protected]

Biography:

Sarah Philbrick joined MAPC as Research Manager in November, 2024. As Research Manager, Sarah leads the application of research and data development to support informed and equitable decision-making in the Greater Boston region. She oversees the agency’s research agenda as well as its forecasting program.

Before her time as Research Manager, Sarah worked as the Manager of MPO Planning and Policy at the Boston Region MPO. In this role she led staff responsible for developing and implementing the Transportation Equity, Performance Based Planning and Programming, Climate Resilience, and Congestion Management programs as well as the agency’s air quality conformity and policy analysis work. Before her time at the MPO, Sarah worked as a Research Manager at the non-profit Partnership for Public Service where she led a new data and evidence program which empowered federal agency leaders to develop a strong data culture within their agencies. Sarah also spent over five years with the research team at MAPC as a socioeconomic analysist where she led the agency’s land use modeling and demographic forecasting efforts.

Sarah holds a Master of Science in Geographic Information Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, both from Clark University.

Areas of Expertise: demographic modeling, land use modeling, scenario planning