Jennifer Raitt

Jennifer is an Executive Director of the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments, a regional planning agency based in Lowell, MA. She has nearly three decades of housing, community development, and planning experience. A longtime housing advocate and trainer committed to professional growth and development in the field of urban planning, Ms. Raitt has been an adjunct faculty member, guest lecturer, and is a frequent speaker on a range of planning and professional development topics. Ms. Raitt graduated from The New School with a M.S. in Nonprofit Management and Urban Policy and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a B.A. in Urban and Documentary Studies. Her most recent publication “Ending Zoning’s Racist Legacy” was the January 2022 issue of Zoning Practice for the American Planning Association.