Alyse Nelson

Alyse Nelson, writing fellow, spends her days as an urban planner for the city of Seattle and, since 2007, spends some of her spare time writing and researching for Sightline. She has degrees in urban planning from Portland State University and the University of Washington, where she was a Valle Scholar and traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, to research bicycle planning. A life-long Washingtonian, Alyse resides on Bainbridge Island with her husband, two kids, two goats, three chickens, and one dog.