Meet the Team

Project Lead / Technology and Public Purpose Fellow

Stephen Larrick is an urban planner and open government advocate who has worked at the intersection of cities and technology for over a decade. His previous roles include Director of Planning and Economic Development for the City of Central Falls, RI; Open Data Project Lead and Founding Director of the Open Cities Team at the Sunlight Foundation; and most recently Head of City Success for Stae, an urban technology startup building data management tools for local government users.

As an academic year 2021-2022 Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center, he is leading research and project implementation of the Municipal Data Sharing Policy hub.

Research Assistants

Aneesa Andrabi is a Master’s degree candidate in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, focused on data-driven and effective social and urban policy.

Through the HKS Taubman Center for State and Local Government she served as a Transition Term Fellow in Cincinnati, OH supporting incoming Mayor Aftab Pureval. Prior to HKS, she spent the last 3 years working in the Office of Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, helping to direct the Mayor's agenda on mobility and infrastructure as Infrastructure Manager on the City Services team. Previously, she worked at HR&A Advisors, Inc., a national urban development advisory firm.

Aneesa graduated from Swarthmore College’s Honors program with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Public Policy.

Zoe Iacovino is a dual degree candidate in Urban Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her main focus of study is on infrastructure investment and community development that centers justice.

A life-long Bay Stater, having grown up in Somerville, MA, and attended Tufts University, Zoe most recently worked in the Massachusetts State Senate on district issues, constituent services, and communications. Her experience liaising between state and local officials to help constituents and neighbors better access public services and processes inspired her to pursue urban planning as the intersection of policy implementation and the built environment.