Octavia Geiger
(she/they)
Octavia brings experience in spatial and data analysis, public policy, housing policy, community development, and research. They graduated with honors in historical and political studies from Arcadia University, and then worked in the legal non-profit field for several years before going to graduate school. In 2022, she graduated from Temple University with a Masters of Public Policy (MPP). At Temple, they focused on quantitative analysis, community development, and socio-political issues that affect marginalized people.
During their tenure at Temple, they were a policy solutions intern at Reinvestment Fund. and stayed on as a policy consultant post graduation. At Reinvestment Fund, a community development financial institution, they honed their data and spatial analysis skills and worked on projects such as the evaluation of the Eviction Diversion program in Philadelphia, and a report on examining the accuracy, uniformity & equity of Philadelphia’s real estate tax assessments.