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