Melissa Gibson is a senior consultant at Public Sector Consultants. Ms. Gibson conducts and manages survey and statistical research for the firm’s clients in the policy arenas of economics, the environment, education, health, and technology. She also assists other PSC staff with questions of methodology, statistics, and statistical analysis. In her role at PSC, Ms. Gibson conducts all aspects of the survey research process from defining methodology, to qualitative and quantitative analysis, to report writing and presentations. She brings with her a strong background in economics, statistical analysis, and quantitative/qualitative research.

Prior to joining PSC in 2011, Ms. Gibson was the Research Manager for the Land Policy Institute (LPI) Research Program at Michigan State University (MSU), where she assisted in setting the Institute’s research priorities and managing its research efforts. During her time at LPI, her work included such topics as the economic impact of green infrastructure, the value of placemaking characteristics to the built environment, regional agricultural viability analysis, intergovernmental cooperation issues and economies of scale, density and school location issues, drivers of growth and population dynamics, among others. Ms. Gibson was also a graduate research assistant in the Department of Agricultural Economics at MSU, where she worked on the survey development, implementation, analysis, and reporting of a statewide coastal wetland valuation study.

Ms. Gibson holds a BA in Economics with an Environmental Economics Specialization and an MS in Agricultural Economics with an Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Specialization, both from MSU.

mgibson@pscinc.com