AMELIA WALLACE
Amelia Wallace, Senior Associate, has been with Jensen Strategies since the Fall of 2020 providing recruitment support, facilitation, policy analysis, and product development for clients. She earned her Master of Public Administration from the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy & Governance in Seattle with a concentration on public financial management, local government service, racial equity and social justice, and policy analysis.
Amelia is from the Tennessee Valley and earned her bachelor’s in Politics with Honors from Oberlin College in Ohio. She started her career with three cycles of campaign organizing for local and statewide elections. While now happily retired from campaigns, her experience organizing and training maintains her passion for civic engagement and community development. She also served as an AmeriCorps member building local partnerships with schools and community organizations to offer youth biking safety and Safe Routes to School programs.
While in Seattle, Amelia immersed herself in a variety of professional and academic activities. In her work, she served as the graduate intern for the City of Seattle Department of Transportation Curbside Management team providing parking policy research, supporting COVID-19 business relief efforts, and coordinating neighborhood engagement and communication about new Link light rail stations. In her final consulting project for her degree, she worked with the Seattle Office of Civil Rights to develop qualitative web-based analysis of equity data for the City’s Race and Social Justice Initiative. Outside of class, she led the local University of Washington International City/County Management Association (ICMA) student chapter which offers a multitude of professional development opportunities including conferences and an ICMA-UW board led paid fellowship program to support students’ work with small cities across Washington state.
In her free time, Amelia loves being outside, whether that is hiking, doing yardwork, or learning about trees and plants. As a longtime craft “beertender,” Amelia loves living in the Pacific Northwest and exploring new brews while enjoying her newfound love of Sounders soccer.