{"id":731,"date":"2026-09-07T02:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=731"},"modified":"2026-09-15T06:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:45:02","slug":"caroline-demarco","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/profile\/caroline-demarco\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline DeMarco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caroline DeMarco is an Officer at Large of the Urban Planning Association and a third-year Master&#8217;s student in Boston University&#8217;s Master&#8217;s of City Planning program, where her studies focus on transportation. Most recently, she completed a six-month co-op at MassDOT where she was lead writer on the Special Commission Report on Micromobility. She holds a bachelor&#8217;s in Computer Science from Northwestern University, where she researched interface design and video game development.<\/p>\n<p>Before pursuing her master&#8217;s, Caroline was a technology and user experience consultant at Microsoft and worked with clients across more than a dozen industries to adapt to ever-changing demands on their technological infrastructure and design new, business-leading software. She left the tech world in 2024 to pursue her passion for community-focused infrastructure and accessible mobility. She lives in Brookline with her two cats, and in her free time, she volunteers at the Cat Connection in Brighton as a facility manager and fosters orphaned kittens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPA Role<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Officer at Large, 2026-2027<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":19783,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":740,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/731\/revisions\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/upa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}