Brielle Kissel Meade is a senior economist with over two decades of experience helping clients understand data needs, improve data systems and analyses, and use data to inform decision-making and solve complex policy and operations challenges. She manages and supports a wide variety of federal and state projects across many ERG service areas by providing data collection and management services, analyzing environmental information, and developing software and modeling tools. 

As co-director of ERG’s Qualtrics survey design and administration team, Brielle manages survey implementation teams and projects at ERG. She is an expert at coding customized online surveys, survey data analysis, and results presentation. Brielle also manages resources and staffing for dozens of research and data analysis efforts for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state governments. Two recent examples include data analytics support for EPA’s PFAS Analytic Tools and development of analytic approaches for EPA’s Office of Land and Emergency Management to characterize cumulative impacts and providing. In addition, Brielle managed a complex survey effort for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to collect economic and social fishing community data from vessel owners across the Northeast to assess the impacts of fishery management actions, and a complex survey for the National Weather Service to measure public perception of the value of weather warning messages and products. She also managed ERG’s team in support of EPA’s Office of Water and Office of Research and Development in preparing the first national atlas of public water system service area boundaries, and she led ERG’s effort to digitize maps, develop data standards, and create a web page for EPA’s national geospatial dataset of community water system service areas. Brielle also has extensive experience using Visual Basic for Applications to custom-develop Microsoft Excel/Access data processing tools. For example, she has built tools to analyze mobile source emissions, energy impacts, and worker safety programs, as well as models to evaluate economic and environmental impacts of policy options. 

Brielle holds a joint M.S. in urban/environmental policy and planning and economics from Tufts University, as well as a B.A. in economics and B.S. in business administration from the University of New Hampshire. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family and staying engaged in local affairs as an elected Town Meeting member.