Karen Lowrie
Project Manager
klowrie@rci.rutgers.edu

Karen Lowrie, Ph.D. has worked for the Center for the past ten years, currently as Project Manager. She manages projects associated with revitalizing distressed urban neighborhoods, including building local capacity for physical and social improvement through neighborhood planning, addressing community health concerns, and developing brownfields training for community-based organizations. She has been a co-lead researcher on past studies focusing on land use issues at U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons sites, economic impacts of brownfields sites, mass media coverage of brownfields, and urban parks, among others. She also teaches classes in land use planning, urban neighborhood redevelopment and environmental planning and has written numerous articles in popular and peer-reviewed publications.