Colleen Dawicki is Director of the Working Places team, supporting leaders in smaller cities and rural areas working to build more inclusive economies through the Working Cities Challenge, Leaders for Equitable Local Economies, and the Working Places Learning Network. Before joining the Boston Fed in late 2014, Colleen worked with smaller cities to provide urban policy research and technical assistance as the director of the UMass Dartmouth Urban Initiative. Colleen is an Emergent Learning Advanced Practitioner and a member of the School Committee in her home city of New Bedford. She holds a Master of Public Policy degree from UMass Dartmouth and a B.A. in public and private sector organizations from Brown University.