Allison Curtis is a recent graduate from the Masters in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning program at Tufts University. While there, she focused her studies on models of solidarity economies, community economic development, housing, and community land trusts. She has conducted a study on ways to transfer property to a CLT in partnership with Dudley Neighbors Inc and the Chinatown CLT in Boston, analyses of fair housing for the cities of Somerville and Northampton, and now works as a planner and analyst for the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission. allison.curtis91@gmail.com