Get to Know Your Chapter Vice President – Christina Arlt

Christina Arlt, AICP leads the Planning & Communications group at McCormick Taylor’s Philadelphia office. She has managed public engagement and communications for a variety of projects, including SEPTA’s Trolley Modernization program, SEPTA’s King of Prussia Rail project, the New Jersey Department of Transportation’s Local Aid Resource Center, and the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority’s Plan 2050.

Prior to starting at McCormick Taylor in 2019, Ms. Arlt worked for nearly a decade at the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) in Philadelphia. 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.

Ms. Arlt 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 and Spatial Analysis. Her undergraduate degree is in Urban & Environmental Studies from Franklin & Marshall College. Ms. Arlt volunteers for WTS-Philadelphia, an organization that supports women in the transportation industry, and is the Vice President of the American Planning Association Pennsylvania Chapter. She also teaches a class for first-year Master of City Planning students at the University of Pennsylvania.