Carrie Redden

Director of Health and Planning

With over 20 years of experience, Carrie Redden’s background in public health and city planning, coupled with her previous work with State and local health and transportation departments, national associations, non-profit organizations, and hospital systems gives her a strong understanding of how to leverage partnerships and intentionally seek meaningful stakeholder engagement to plan and implement best practices at the local, state, and national level. She has worked to support community and individual behavior change through understanding and addressing the individual, interpersonal, infrastructure, societal, and practical factors that influence decision-making at the individual, community and policy level. Ms. Redden has a strong history of successfully engaging diverse stakeholders through focus groups, stakeholder interviews, and community meetings to better understand perspectives, attitudes and priorities. She has provided leadership in guiding, facilitating, and implementing a variety of community health assessments required qualitative and quantitative data analysis, including key stakeholder interviews, focus groups, and data indicator analyses. Trained in Design Thinking facilitation techniques, she is a seasoned facilitator of purpose-driven meetings designed to maximize participant engagement.

Q&A

What is your dream vacation?

Hiking in New Zealand

What’s your favorite project that you’ve worked on?

Facilitating state and local meetings that brought together diverse stakeholders to have tough conversations about sticky issues and then making an action plan with next steps.

What is your favorite ice cream flavor?

Chocolate chip

What’s your favorite way to spend a day off?

Going for a long walk, eating a delicious pastry with coffee, and hanging with my kids

Who or what inspires you in your career?

Community stories – hearing what matters to people