Our Team
Planners.
Designers.
Marketers.
Storytellers.
Katie is an urban planner and designer with a passion for community-driven projects. She founded Locality Studio after seeing the gap between governmental organizations and design. She uses her background of complex analysis and storytelling to guide her design projects, while using her robust public engagement skills to interact with and learn from who she is designing for.
Katie received her Masters of City Planning with a concentration in Urban Design from the University of Pennsylvania.
Katie McLaughlin
Founder and Creative Director
Jessie is creative at heart with a love for solution-oriented design. Her career began in state and municipal planning where she spent time advancing projects related to housing, transportation and conservation. She’s spent time as a freelancer working on projects related to wayfinding and community branding. During that time, she also grew her photography business.
Jessie received her Masters Degree in Urban Design for Sustainable Urban Environments.
Jessie Wyman
Lead Planner and Designer
Our Collaborators
Emma Bangs
Planning Specialist
Em Hall
Marketing Specialist
Lara Wulff
Design Specialist
Kelly Schaul
Design Specialist
Julia Sonda
Design Specialist
Sarah Leonard
Design Specialist