About
Decker Civic is a strategy and research practice that partners with mission-driven organizations and government agencies to strengthen places, public systems, and civic health. We also pursue our own projects toward those same goals.
Areas of work
Strategic advising & planning
Program evaluation & measurement
Applied research & policy analysis
Leadership
Tabitha Decker is a sociologist and strategist who has spent her career at the intersection of research, policy, and civic action.
At TransitCenter, she co-led the Bus Turnaround Campaign, building a coalition and evidence base that elevated rider-centered bus reform on New York's policy agenda and won concrete commitments from the MTA and City to redesign the bus network and prioritize buses on city streets. As Deputy Executive Director at Next100, she worked to change how and by whom policy is made, centering the expertise of those closest to the country's most pressing policy problems.
Tabitha’s work has roots in research projects that centered transportation as a site of power and opportunity for making cities work for everyone, including doctoral research on the creation of Dubai's Metro and, as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, a project riding alongside women taxi drivers around the world to understand their experiences.
She is a Fellow at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at NYU, a board member at Spring Street Climate Fund, and an advisory board member at New Yorkers United for Child Care. Tabitha has a PhD in sociology from Yale University and a BA in international relations from Wellesley College.
