CARRIE KISSEL, PROGRAM MANAGER

In 2006, Carrie Kissel joined the NADO Research Foundation as program manager. Kissel works with NADO’s transportation programs, including the Center for Transportation Advancement and Regional Development and RPO America. Previously, she was a graduate fellow with NADO and worked on various projects related to the transportation peer networking project and the Center for Regional Development and Environmental Stewardship.

Kissel has contributed to several NADO publications, including Regional Strategies for Environmental Stewardship: Successfully Merging Environmental Protection with Regional Development, Strategies for Success: Regional Approaches to Brownfields Redevelopment and Brownfields Redevelopment Guide: A Guide for Rural and Small Communities, as well as NADO News and NADO's Regional Development Digest.

Before joining NADO, Kissel coordinated conferences as Special Projects Assistant at American University. She has also completed research on the social impacts of rural economic development for USDA Cooperative Service and participated in cultural resource assessments for transportation and other construction projects as a contract archaeologist. As a student at Ball State University, Kissel worked collaboratively with community members to co-author a chapter in The Other Side of Middletown, a study of the small city of Muncie, Indiana.

Kissel completed a Master of Arts in Public Anthropology at American University in 2006. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Ball State University and studied at University College Cork in Cork, Ireland.

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