Regan Checchio joined RVA as a Public Participation Coordinator in 2000 and became Public Affairs Manager in 2005. She currently staffs the Urban Ring Project for the MA Executive Office of Transportation and the Storrow Drive Restoration Project for the Department of Conservation and Recreation and Mass Highway Department. Ms. Checchio coordinates the Medical Reserve Corps Program for Massachusetts in conjunction with the Department of Public Health.  She manages the Annual Conference on Women's Health and the Environment for the Heinz Family Philanthropies.  Prior to joining RVA, Regan worked as a Research Assistant at the Iowa Social Science Institute.  She received her Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Iowa in 1996. In 1998, she co-authored a chapter in Lois Duke Whittaker's Women in Politics: Outsiders or Insiders?