Introducing our Officers: Christina Arlt, AICP, Vice President

Christina Arlt, AICP leads the Planning & Communications group at McCormick Taylor’s Philadelphia office. She manages planning and public engagement projects for clients like SEPTA, PennDOT, Lancaster County, the City of Philadelphia, and NJDOT. Prior to starting at McCormick Taylor in 2019, Christina worked for nearly a decade at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC), where she coordinated DVRPC’s Classic Towns, Municipal Outreach, and Strategies for Older Suburbs programs. Christina also worked in Planning & Zoning for Warwick Township in Bucks County and spent a year as a Fulbright English Language Teaching Assistant in Hamburg, Germany.

Christina obtained her Master of City Planning with a focus on Land Use and Environmental Planning at the University of Pennsylvania, where she also obtained a Certificate in GIS. Her undergraduate degree is in Urban & Environmental Studies from Franklin & Marshall College. In addition to the American Planning Association Pennsylvania chapter, Christina is involved with WTS-Philadelphia, an organization that supports women in the transportation industry. She also teaches a class for first-year Master of City Planning students at the University of Pennsylvania. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, traveling, and attending Cookbook Club at her local library.