Alison Shott

Alison Shott

  • College of Liberal Arts

    Instructor

    Programs
    • Master of Public Policy Program
Office Location

TUCC, 200A

Expertise

Public Policy, Local Government, Policy Analysis, Community Development

Biography

Alison (Ali) Shott is a community engagement advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. She builds partnerships with nonprofits, public sector agencies, and community development financial institutions to promote equitable development and fair and impartial access to credit in underserved communities nationally. At the Philadelphia Fed, Ali leads the Reinventing Our Communities (ROC) Cohort Program, a 15-month racial equity capacity building for cross-sector community groups across the U.S. to apply local solutions to build stronger, more inclusive regional economies. 

Before joining the Philadelphia Fed, Ali was a director at a Philadelphia-based economics and public policy consulting firm, where she led projects on neighborhood revitalization, municipal finance, and workforce development. She previously worked in research at the Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance and the Social Economy and Sustainability Research Network. 

Ali has a Ph.D. from the University of Western Ontario, a master’s degree from Acadia University, and a bachelor’s degree from American University, all in political science. In 2009-2010, she was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Prince Edward Island.

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

  • Shott, Alison. "Developing and Executing a Data Collection Plan for Archival Research.” SAGE Research Methods Cases, 2019. 
  • Wong, Sidney, Daniel Miles, Gabrielle Connor, Brooke Queenan, and Alison Shott. “Residential Demographic Multipliers: Using Public Use Microdata Sample Records to Estimate Housing
  • Development Impacts.” Cityscape 19:3 (2017), 415-427.
  • Shott, Alison. “Increasing the Competitiveness of Municipal Council Elections." In The Democracy Cookbook: Recipes to Renew Governance in Newfoundland and Labrador. Ed. Alex Marland and Lisa Moore. St. John’s: IESR Books, 2017.
  • Shott, Alison. “The Composition of Municipal Associations and Policy Requests to Provincial Governments: Selected Cases.” Canadian Public Administration 60:1 (2017), 111-134.
  • Shott, Alison K. “Ways but not a Will: Addressing Nitrate Contamination on Prince Edward Island.” Public Policy and Governance Review 3:2 (2012): 48-62.

Courses Taught

  • PLCY 8127: Public Policy Project