Bailey Bullock, Community Forest Planner, MS
Bailey Bullock works closely with municipalities and community members to assist them in understanding and achieving their urban forestry goals. She coordinates the GIC’s TREES4MS Project in which she helps communities map and manage urban forests, and create planting strategies to re-green MS cities and tribal lands.
Bailey’s professional experience spans land use, transportation, geographic information systems (GIS), education, language teaching, public health, environmental stewardship, and disaster recovery. Right after college, Bailey served as a literacy coach in the Spanish/English dual language program at a public school in Boston, Massachusetts, through City Year’s AmeriCorps program. Bailey completed two Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants as an English Teaching Assistant at universities in Colombia, first at Universidad ECCI in Bogotá, followed by Universidad Cooperativa in Montería.
Upon returning to the U.S., Bailey served as a Team Leader with AmeriCorps NCCC’s Southern Region, managing service projects across seven states in the U.S. South and on the East Coast. She also led an English/Spanish bilingual public health outreach program to promote access to COVID-19 vaccination in the Hispanic-Latino community of Anne Arundel County as a Project Coordinator with the Center of Help in Annapolis, Maryland. As a graduate research assistant at the University of New Orleans Transportation Institute, Bailey contributed to federal reports on intermodal chassis provisioning and international trade, in addition to her participation in active transportation projects including mapping all of the recreational assets in the state of Louisiana for the Louisiana Recreational Trails Program. She has presented her research on critical media analysis of opposition to bus rapid transit at conferences regionally and nationally and has worked for firms assisting localities with engaging communities in comprehensive planning, human services transportation, and with interactive GIS tools for local decision-making.
Bailey earned her Master of Urban and Regional Planning, Graduate Certificate in GIS, and Master of Science in Transportation from the University of New Orleans and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with a minor in Linguistics and a Certificate in TESOL from Mississippi State University. At the University of New Orleans, she completed multiple urban planning projects for communities in New Orleans, LA. The U.S. Department of Transportation honored Bailey as the Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center’s 2023 Outstanding University Transportation Center Student of the Year for her work on multimodal transportation.
Born and raised in Mississippi, the Birthplace of American Music, Bailey enjoys cultivating her music tastes at the intersections of Spanish language, country, trap, blues, Americana, and pop, and enjoys artists such as Bad Bunny, Chappell Roan, and Tanner Adell, among others.