Francie Lawrence AICP

(she/her)

Francie is a Senior Planner at Teska Associates, a community planning and landscape architecture firm in Evanston, Illinois. She loves getting to know different communities around Chicagoland working as a consultant, and genuinely enjoys a public meeting or Saturday morning outreach event.

Francie has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in urban planning (shoutout to the 4+1 program) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is passionate about connecting people and introducing students and young professionals to the field.

Fun Facts

• City-person through and through, but spent one year living in rural-ish Indiana and didn’t hate it.
• Addicted to podcasts.
• Believes a long walk near a body of water can cure most things.