As chief economist at Bright MLS since 2022, Sturtevant makes sense of the housing market and provides MLS-focused analysis of the key real estate trends. Prior to her work with the nation’s second largest MLS, which has more than 100,000 subscribers, Sturtevant worked for the Virginia Realtors. With a doctorate in public policy and regional economic development, Sturtevant began work in housing analysis in 2013 at the National Housing Conference in Washington, D.C.