Anita Cozart

Anita M. Cozart is an urban planner and policy strategist with expertise gained through a career in government, private and non-profit organizations. She currently serves as Director of the DC Office of Planning (OP) overseeing a $13 million budget with 75 staff of focused on community planning, urban design, data analysis and historic preservation. Prior to her current appointment, Ms. Cozart served as Deputy Director of Community Planning and Design, leading teams that spearheaded the recent Comprehensive Plan update, commenced the next generation of neighborhood plans, and developed the Streets for People public space activtation program. She also served as a managing director at the non-rofit PolicyLink, where she led place-based, equitable development initiatives in cities across the United States, and used a racial equity lens to drive community planning, housing, transportation and infrastructure policy. Ms. Cozart is an adjunct lecturer and capstone advisor in the Urban & Regional Planning program at Georgetown University. She holds a Master of City & Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science in Civil & Environmental Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.