FM3 Partner Miranda Everitt has two decades of experience in public opinion, policy analysis, and communications. She joined FM3 in 2015, building a portfolio of research on a range of issues including conservation and climate, electoral reform, criminal legal policy, labor policy, and housing and homelessness.
She has led scores of projects to better understand voter attitudes in a variety of communities across the country, with particular interest in the unique opportunities and challenges of life in small towns and rural areas from Alaska and Hawai`i to the Pacific Coast to the intermountain West.
Miranda came to FM3 with experience in communications and policy research at California Budget and Policy Center, SEIU Healthcare MN, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Law and Social Policy, Justice in Aging, and the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Prior to her policy career, she worked for the Oakland Tribune, San Jose Mercury News, and Toledo Free Press.
Miranda holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley and a journalism degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
An avid backpacker, Miranda has trekked thousands of miles in Iceland, British Columbia, Quebec, California, Arizona, Colorado, Hawai`i, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, and Utah. She lives in Portland, Oregon.