Kathleen Spear

Kathleen Spear is a Research Assistant at the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, where she first became involved with a rural public transportation project as an undergraduate student in 2024. Her research focuses on identifying and assessing innovative transportation options to support rural resilience. She has also assisted with brownfields redevelopment research. Kathleen graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Ecology and Environmental Sciences from the University of Maine in 2025, with a particular interest in environmental policy and natural resource economics.