Rebecca Karp

Workshop: Unlocking Supply Chain Potential: Proven Strategies to Hiring a Qualified & Diverse Workforce

Rebecca Karp is Managing Principal and CEO of Karp Strategies. Utilizing a data-driven, qualitative and place-based approach to planning, Rebecca has grown her WBE-, SBE- and DBE- certified company into one of the leading women-owned urban planning businesses in New York.

Since launching in 2015, Karp Strategies has supported equitable economic development across projects in diverse sectors critical to the future of New York, New Jersey, and cities across the East Coast of the United States, including renewable energy, public housing, transportation, ports and commercial development. Due to their renowned expertise in the sector, Karp Strategies formally launched a new practice area focused on renewable energy and offshore wind in September 2020. The firm’s government, private and nonprofit partners include the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, the New York City Economic Development Corporation, the Maine Governor’s Energy Office, Atlantic Shores, Equinor, Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.