Carissa Schively Slotterback, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Carissa Schively, teaches courses in environmental and land-use planning, participation, and impact analysis. Her research is focused on participation in environmental and land-use decision-making, environmental-impact analysis, and planning processes and implementation.
Her current projects include a study of environmental-impact analysis processes in state departments of transportation, funded by the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies (CTS). Schively Slotterback is also studying public involvement in planning and design processes for transportation projects, as part of a larger University-wide research team focused on identifying the effects of well-designed transportation projects. The $1 million study is funded by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She is currently involved in research on health issues in planning for the Design for Health project with professors Ann Forsyth and Kevin Krizek.
She is an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Landscape Architecture and serves as advisor to the Humphrey Institute's Planning Student Organization (PSO). She is a research faculty member in the Metropolitan Design Center and a faculty scholar in the Center for Transportation Studies.
Schively Slotterback also works extensively in the planning-practice community, serving as a member of the executive committee for Urban Land Institute (ULI) Minnesota and faculty liaison to the Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association. She is currently working with representatives from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and local environmental-consulting firms on a Bush Foundation-funded project, “Delivering Capacity to Incorporate Natural Resources into Local Land Use and Development Decisions.” Work on this project includes organizing several outreach events, focused on facilitating conservation development at the local level.
Before joining the Humphrey in 2004, Schively Slotterback gained experience as a professional planner and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP). She worked as a long-range planner with the City of Henderson, Nevada, and as a planning consultant with Dahlgren, Shardlow, and Uban, Inc. (DSU) in Minneapolis.
Schively Slotterback holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from Florida State University, a Master of City and Regional Planning from Clemson University, and undergraduate degree from Winona State University.
For additional information, please see Carissa Schively Slotterback's biography at the Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota.
Carissa Schively Slotterback is part of the research faculty team leading the Design for Health project.
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