Bio

As an Economic Analyst for the Department of Economic Development (DED), Kaitlyn is highly involved in driving the Department towards more data-driven decision making. This includes leading and supporting the evaluation of the economic and fiscal impacts of projects and programs, the development and utilization of performance and economic dashboards, providing insightful economic research internally and externally, and growing the department’s data analytics capability. Kaitlyn’s recent focus has been leading projects for the improvement of the economic and fiscal impact analysis of Historic Tax Credit projects and the deployment and building of DED’s Tableau resources and skills. She has been with the Department for four years and is currently pursuing a Master of Economics degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia.