CNU Project for Transportation Reform Summit 2014

This year’s Summit, Equity + Transportation, will focus on the interaction between equity and transportation and how we can redefine transportation standards to support safe, vibrant, and equitable streets. For decades, U.S. transportation policy gave priority to automobile movement over the social and economic needs of the people living along our streets. Highways and wide arterials divided pre-existing neighborhoods, degraded the public realm, and created travel spaces unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. Much of CNU’s transportation work — such as our Highways to Boulevards initiative and the CNU/ITE collaboration Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares — helps to reverse decades of inequity.

The purpose of the Summit is to explore the following questions:

1. How do we revitalize corridors in distressed communities?
2. How do we complete “incomplete” streets by building great, beautiful and equitable streets?
3. Is there a research, policy, or design gap in this area that CNU could address? If so, what?

This year’s Summit will continue to drive the efforts and progress CNU's Project for Transportation, leveraging the expertise of participants in smaller working sessions to tackle issues relating to:

Street Design

The Street Design group seeks to accomplish the following:

• Developing a new “Practitioner’s Guide” for the CNU/ITE Recommended Practice that focuses on pedestrian and non-motorized transportation and retrofitting problematic intersections
• Establish policies - complete streets/context sensitive design at all practice levels
• Groundwork for national implementation of CNU/ITE Recommended Practice Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares
• Continue updating the Functional Classification system Area Types
• Other reforms and an outline for achieving successful urban street design
• Group Leaders
• Rick Hall & Ken Voigt

Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 2 | 1:30 - 4:00 PM

Recommended Tour
Elements Of Great Streets & Great Places
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Advance Reading Material

• ITE/CNU Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares Recommended Practice

Bikeway Networks

The Bikeway Networks group will focus on establishing common ground between the new urbanist and bicycle planning professions. To begin, the group will hold a conversation outlining specifically where bicycle advocates and new urbanists diverge in philosophy. Then, over the three day summit, the Bikeway Networks group will develop an action item list for CNU and the Alliance for Biking & Walking to tackle for integrating ‘place' and place-based data and metrics in the bi-annual Alliance report on bicycling and walking.

In 2013, this working group put together a variety of bikeway networks from around the world to demonstrate the correlation between network density/physical separation and mode share/gender splits.

Group Leader
Mike Lydon & Rock Miller

Working Groups Meeting Times
Thursday, October 2 | 1:30 - 4:00 PM

Recommended Tour
NYC Bike Tour
Wednesday, October 1 | 1:15 PM - 4:00 PM
*This tour has limited capacity and corresponds specifically to this group's work. Thus Bikeway Network workgroup members receive priority sign-up. Friday tours are open to all.

Advance Reading Material

• SmartCode Bike Module
• 2014 Alliance for Biking and Walking Benchmarking Report
• Rob Steuteville's critique of the 2014 Benchmarking Report in Better Towns & Cities
• Bikeway Networks 2013 Summit Notes

Transportation Reform Modeling

This group aims to reform transportation modeling so that it correctly supports the advancement of New Urbanism rather than obstructing—efforts to advance New Urbanism have often been frustrated by transportation modeling that is simplistic and focused only on cars. More complete transportation modeling that properly accounts for multi-modal travel patterns in walkable mixed-use areas can switch transportation modeling from being an obstacle to being a tool for advancing New Urbanism.

Group Leader
Norman Marshall

Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM
Thursday, October 2 | 1:30 - 5:00 PM

Recommended Tour
Sheridan Expressway
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Advance Reading Material

• Transportation Reform Modeling Prospectus

Street Vitality Index

CNU's proposed Street Vitality Index seeks to measure and rate the vibrancy of streets and neighborhoods. The SVI working group will help to define the initiative by discussing in-depth the final product, user and metrics

Group Leader
Joseph Readdy

Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 4:00 - 5:00 PM

Recommended Tour
Elements Of Great Streets & Great Places
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Street Vitality Index Preamble and notes from 2013 Summit

Regional Plan Association

Equitable TOD in New York City: RPA is currently working on the Fourth Regional Plan, a comprehensive blueprint for the region.

RPA will be leading a workshop on Equitable Transit Oriented Development within NYC. As part of RPA’s ongoing work on the Fourth Regional Plan, the Transportation & Communities working groups are analyzing all the subway stations in New York City to identify those that pose an opportunity to tackle the Mayor’s recent Housing Plan to increase affordable housing throughout the city. RPA will identify subway corridors that have additional capacity to accommodate increased ridership induced by new housing developments. The objective of this workshop is to develop ideas, proposals, and guidelines for stations within those corridors where:

There is opportunity and need to add housing capacity- with a focus on adding affordable housing
There is disconnect between subway stations and adjacent/nearby Public Housing units
The current physical conditions make an attractive and accessible public realm a real challenge
Group Leader
Rob Lane

Working Groups Meeting Times
Wednesday, October 1 | 1:15 - 4:00 PM

Recommended Tour
Sheridan Expressway
Friday, October 3 | 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Advance Reading Material

• Regional Plan Association's Fourth Regional Plan site
• Outmoded Land-Use Policies Thwart Transit-Oriented Development in Connecticut
• LIRR Grand Central Link to Boost Home 

What To Expect

Aligning transportation and land use is critical for revitalizing distressed communities. Economic vitality, community stability, and environmental health cannot be sustained without a coherent and supportive physical framework, including well-designed streets. For too long, revitalization has meant tearing down what's currently there and bringing in something “new” while streets have been designed for cars at the expense of other users. How can we plan for transportation outcomes that positively impact all modes and all users while revitalizing our distressed corridors, while not displacing local businesses and residents?

This three-day summit of presentations, discussions, tours, and working meetings will challenge participants to identify research opportunities, policy strategies, and design approaches that make transportation policy more holistic and equitable. These discussions around Equity + Transportation will form the basis of CNU’s work on this topic for the upcoming year.

Location
Ford Foundation Building
320 E 43rd St
New York, NY 10017

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Check out the draft schedule below. Some changes and substitutions may be made leading up to the Summit, but the schedule below reflects the most up-to-date information.

Additionally, this year's summit tours include bike tours of NYC streets, a close look at the current push to convert the Sheridan Expressway in the South Bronx to an at-grade boulevard, and more!

Wednesday | Oct 1

CHECK-IN
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Ford Foundation Foyer
Entrance on 43rd Street

BREAKFAST
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Foyer, Level B

WELCOME & OVERVIEW OF CNU PROJECT FOR TRANSPORTATION REFORM
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Auditorium, Level B
Master of Ceremonies
Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology
Speakers
Lynn Richards, President & CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism
Xavier Briggs, Vice President of Economic Opportunity and AssetsRepresentative from the Ford Foundation
Norman Garrick, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Connecticut

PLENARY: EQUITY + TRANSPORTATION
9:30 – 10:30 AM
Auditorium, Level B

Dr. Mindy Fullilove, author of Root Shock and Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities, shares a new understanding of the legacy of urban renewal schemes on urban populations, exploring the evolutionary pressures of highways cutting through the cities, factories shuttering, rampant white flight and cycles of immigration/migration. In doing so, she places the many forms of “transit” in the context of the city and explores a "third path" - not disinvestment or gentrification - for the reinvention of the post-industrial city that is inclusive of people of modest means.
Speaker
Dr. Mindy Fullilove, Professor of Clinical of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University, Author of Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It

BREAK
10:30 – 10:45 AM

PANEL: EQUITABLE TRANSPORTATION REFORM
10:45 – 11:30 AM
Auditorium, Level B

Experts will bridge the work of CNU’s Project for Transportation Reform with the varied work by actors in the realm of equity, transportation, economic development and more. These experts will outline the current relationship between transportation planning professions and organizations that promote and support equitable systems.
Panelists
Dan Burden, Director of Innovation, Blue Zones
Marcy McInelly, President of Urbsworks, Co-Chair of CNU’s Project for Transportation Reform
Jacky Grimshaw, Vice President of Policy, Center for Neighborhood Technology

Q&A
11:30 – 12:15 PM

LUNCH
12:15 – 1:15 PM
East River Room, 11th Floor

WORKING SESSION: EQUITABLE TOD IN NEW YORK CITY
1:30 – 4:00 PM

Regional Plan Association

AIA | 3 LU
AICP pending

The Regional Plan Association (RPA) is currently working on the Fourth Regional Plan, a comprehensive blueprint for the region.

RPA will be leading a workshop on Equitable Transit Oriented Development within NYC. As part of RPA’s ongoing work on the Fourth Regional Plan, the Transportation & Communities working groups are analyzing all the subway stations in New York City to identify those that pose an opportunity to tackle the Mayor’s recent Housing Plan to increase affordable housing throughout the city. RPA will identify subway corridors that have additional capacity to accommodate increased ridership induced by new housing developments. East River Room, 11th Floor

BIKE TOUR: NEW YORK CITY STREETS
1:30 – 4:00 PM
*This tour corresponds to the Bikeway Networks group, whose members receive priority sign-up.
Leaders
Mike Lydon, Founding Principal, The Street Plans Collaborative
Douglas Adams, Chief Operating Officer, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Noah Budnick, Deputy Director, Transportation Alternatives
Caroline Samponaro, Senior Director, Campaigns and Organizing,Transportation Alternatives
Matt Levy, Profession Tour Guide, Levy's Unique New York

WORKING GROUPS BREAK OUT
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Presentations by one representative from each group to report on working group progress as well as initial research areas for Equity + Transportation.

Street Design

AIA | 1 LU
AICP pending

The Street Design workgroup will be developing a new Practitioner’s Guide for the CNU/ITE Recommended Practice funded by US DOT that will focus on pedestrian and non-motorized transportation and retrofitting problematic intersections; continue updating the Functional Classification system Area Types; and establish policies of complete streets/context sensitive design at all practice levels. East River Room

Street Vitality Index

AIA | 1 LU
AICP pending

The Street Vitality workgroup seeks to measure and rate the vibrancy of streets and neighborhoods. The SVI working group will help to define the initiative by discussing in-depth the final product, user and metrics. Room A

Transportation Modeling Reform

AIA | 1 LU
AICP pending

Transportation Modeling Reform workgroup aims to reform transportation modeling so that it correctly supports the advancement of New Urbanism rather than obstructing—efforts to advance New Urbanism have often been frustrated by transportation modeling that is simplistic and focused only on cars. More complete transportation modeling that properly accounts for multi-modal travel patterns in walkable mixed-use areas can switch transportation modeling from being an obstacle to being a tool for advancing New Urbanism. Room B

SUMMIT RECEPTION WITH NELSON\NYGAARD
6:00 – 8:00 PM
49 West 27th Street
Suite 10W
New York, NY 10001
Distinguished Guest
Polly Trottenberg, Commissioner, NYC Department of Transportation

Thursday | Oct 2

CHECK-IN
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Ford Foundation Foyer
Entrance on 43rd Street

BREAKFAST
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Foyer, Level B

INTRODUCTION OF THE DAY
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Auditorium, Level B

PLENARY: EMPLOYMENT ACCESSIBILITY - HOW DO YOU GET TO WORK?
9:15 – 10:15 AM
Auditorium, Level B
This session will explore the latest research and thinking on accessibility, job access, shared mobility, and preferred transportation modes, covering a wide array of barriers to equitable accessibility. Speakers will discuss current socio-cultural shifts in how people are getting to work. In turn, speakers will begin to identify ways to interpret these current shifts and enhance accessibility in places where accessibility is limited.

Speakers
Stephanie Pollack, Associate Director of Research, Northeastern University
Michael Kodransky, Urban Research Manager, ITDP
Adonia Lugo, Equity Initiative Manager, League of American Bicyclists

Q&A
10:15 – 10:45 AM

BREAK
10:45 – 11:00 AM

PLENARY: URBAN HIGHWAYS & SOCIAL JUSTICE
11:00 – 12:30 PM
Auditorium, Level B
Eric Dumbaugh, Associate Professor, Director of the School of Urban & Regional Planning at Florida Atlantic University, will explore the connection between urban freeway removal and the social justice movement; how removing urban freeways can improve accessibility, rebuild social capital, and revitalize and reconnect distressed communities; and argue that removal of urban freeways is a social justice issue.

Following this presentation, community advocates will share insights from their active Highways to Boulevards campaigns.

Speaker
Eric Dumbaugh, Associate Professor, Director of the School of Urban & Regional Planning

Respondents
Angela Tovar, Director of Sustainable Policy and Research, Sustainable South Bronx
Vincent Pellecchia, General Counsel, Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Brian Ulaszewski, Executive Director, City Fabrick

LUNCH
12:30 – 1:30 PM
East River Room

BREAKOUT WORKING SESSIONS
1:30 – 4:00 PM
Street Design

AIA | 3.5 LU
AICP pending

The Street Design workgroup will be developing a new Practitioner’s Guide for the CNU/ITE Recommended Practice funded by US DOT that will focus on pedestrian and non-motorized transportation and retrofitting problematic intersections; continue updating the Functional Classification system Area Types; and establish policies of complete streets/context sensitive design at all practice levels. East River Room, 11th Floor

Bikeway Networks

AIA | 3.5 LU
AICP pending

Bikeway Networks workgroup will focus on establishing common ground between the new urbanist and bicycle planning professions. To begin, the group will hold a conversation outlining specifically where bicycle advocates and new urbanists diverge in philosophy. Then, over the three day summit, the Bikeway Networks group will develop an action item list for CNU and the Alliance for Biking & Walking to tackle for integrating ‘place' and place-based data and metrics in the bi-annual Alliance report on bicycling and walking. Training Room, 11th Floor

Transportation Modeling Reform

AIA | 3.5 LU
AICP pending

Transportation Modeling Reform workgroup aims to reform transportation modeling so that it correctly supports the advancement of New Urbanism rather than obstructing—efforts to advance New Urbanism have often been frustrated by transportation modeling that is simplistic and focused only on cars. More complete transportation modeling that properly accounts for multi-modal travel patterns in walkable mixed-use areas can switch transportation modeling from being an obstacle to being a tool for advancing New Urbanism. Room A-B, 11th Floor

GROUPS REPORT OUT
4:00 – 5:00 PM
Presentations by one representative from each group to discuss results of their working groups and initial research areas for equity + transportation. East River Room, 11th Floor

JANE JACOBS PUB CRAWL
7:00 – 10:00 PM
Curated by CNU NY, the Jane Jacobs Pub Crawl begins with a drink at the north end of the High Line, New York’s iconic linear park constructed from a disused portion of the New York Central Railroad’s West-Side Line. The night will take us on and off the High Line, strolling south along the park until we reach Jane Jacob’s house at 555 Hudson Street.

The night will conclude at the historic Whitehorse Tavern, where Jane used to drink with writers and artists such as Bob Dylan, Norman Mailer, Jim Morrison and Hunter S. Thompson. *See flyer in summit folder for more information.

Friday | Oct 3

BREAKFAST
8:00 – 9:00 AM
Foyer, Level B

INTRODUCTION OF THE DAY
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Auditorium, Level B

PLENARY: HOW DO WE BUILD GREAT, BEAUTIFUL, EQUITABLE & COMPLETE STREETS?
9:15 – 11:30 AM
Auditorium, Level B
After two full days of talks, tours, and discussion around equitable transportation systems, we ask: What’s missing? Three experts from the realms of urban design, public policy, and transportation planning will give presentations that address the question: How do we design and build great, equitable ad complete streets? The session will be actively moderated.

Following presentations, leaders of the Project for Transportation Reform will lead a summit-wide dialogue and brainstorming session. Active engagement expected, drawing on the work of all working groups, tours, and lessons learned during the summit with the objective to draft next steps and identify fields of inquiry for CNU’s Project for Transportation Reform and partners.

Speakers
Barbara McCann, former Director of the Complete Streets Coalition, and now director of the Office of Safety, Energy and Environment in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation
Joan Byron, Director of Policy, Pratt Center for Community Development
John Massengale, Architect, Board Member & Founding Chair, New York CNU Chapter

Facilitators
Lynn Richards, President & CEO, Congress for the New Urbanism
Mike King, Principal, Nelson\Nygaard

ADJOURN
11:30 AM
Official end of the 2014 CNU Project for Transportation Reform Summit. However, optional group tours taking place after lunch.

LUNCH
11:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch on your own. Recommendations are to eat at Grand Central Station, a few short blocks from the Ford Foundation Building. Afternoon tours will depart from Grand Central Station.

OPTIONAL BREAKOUT WORKING SESSIONS
1:00 – 4:30 PM
Optional working group sessions. TBD by group leadership.

TOUR: SHERIDAN EXPRESSWAY
1:00 – 4:30 PM
A vocal coalition of neighborhood organizations, community leaders, and statewide coalitions have long lobbied to completely remove the Sheridan Expressway in South Bronx and redevelop its footprint to meet community needs for affordable housing, economic development, and open space. Though State and Local DOTs have not embraced the community’s plan, the coalition continues to fight for significant changes to the freeway's design, wanting to significantly decrease truck traffic, improve pedestrian safety and create better access to green spaces.

Join representatives from the community, NYC DOT and Department of Planning, and regional coalition members to see and hear first hand the freeway’s impact on the neighborhood and begin to understand the transformative power of community visioning.

Leaders
Karin Sommer, Commissioner’s Office, New York City Department of Transportation
Tawkiyah Jordan, Senior Planner, New York City Department of Planning
Representatives from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign

TOUR: ELEMENTS OF GREAT STREETS & GREAT PLACES
1:30 – 4:30 PM
What makes a street great? Or a park active and lively? Uncover the elements of great street and place design with the pedestrian at the center. This walking tour takes from Tudor City, down 6th Avenue to Grand Station and the New York Public Libracy, two of America’s greatest civic monuments. Then, study the once dangerous Bryant Park, which after study by famed urbanist William H. Whyte and the Project for Public Spaces in the early 80s, transformed from public liability to urban asset.

Finally, the tour will move down Broadway to Times Square to understand the transformative powerful of designing around the pedestrian, not cars.

Leaders
John Massengale, Urbanist & Author, Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities & Towns
Ethan Kent, Senior Vice President, Project for Public Spaces

This page will be updated frequently with newly confirmed speakers. Be sure to check back often for the most updated information.

Speakers

• Mindy Fullilove
• Polly Trottenberg
• Xavier de Souza Briggs
• Dan Burden
• Stephanie Pollack
• Eric Dumbaugh
• Michael Kodransky
• Adonia Lugo
• John Messengale
• Barbara McCann
• Joan Byron
• Robert Lane
• Ethan Kent
• Douglas Adams
• Angela Tovar
• Brian Ulaszewski
• Vincent Pellecchia

Summit Leaders

• Norman Garrick
• Marcy McInelly
• Tim Sullivan
• Mike Lydon
• Rock Miller
• Joseph Readdy
• Norman Marshall
• Lynn Richards
• Rick Hall
• Jacky Grimshaw
• Kenneth Voigt
• Wesley Marshall

Speakers

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Professor of Clinical of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health - Columbia University
Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove is a board-certified psychiatrist who is interested in the links between the environment and mental health.

She started her research career in 1986 with a focus on the AIDS epidemic, and became aware of the close link between AIDS and place of residence. Under the rubric of the psychology of place, Dr. Fullilove began to examine the mental health effects of such environmental processes as violence, rebuilding, segregation, urban renewal, and mismanaged toxins.

She has published numerous articles and six books including "Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities," "Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It," and "House of Joshua: Meditations on Family and Place."

In Root Shock, Dr. Fullilove “argues powerfully that the twenty-first century will be one of displacement and of continual demolition and reconstruction. Acknowledging the damage caused by root shock is crucial to coping with its human toll and building a road to recovery.”

For more, check out Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America and What We Can Do About It.

Polly Trottenberg
Department of Transportation Commissioner, City of New York
Polly Trottenberg was sworn in as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation on January 27, 2014. Responsible for one of the largest portfolios of any municipal agency, DOT provides for the safe, efficient and sustainable movement of people and goods throughout the five boroughs.

With DOT serving as one of the lead agencies in implementing Mayor de Blasio's Vision Zero traffic safety initiative, Trottenberg’s priorities include establishing policies and programs to dramatically reduce traffic fatalities and injuries and continue the effort to make New York's streets the safest in the country. Trottenberg is also focused on improving public space and transportation options, including Select Bus Service and cycling, in underserved neighborhoods so that all New Yorkers have access to jobs, education and opportunities to improve their daily lives.

Trottenberg’s 22 years of government experience include over four years at USDOT, most recently as the Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy, where she developed key initiatives for the Obama Administration, including the groundbreaking TIGER discretionary grant program. In 2008, Trottenberg was named as the first Executive Director of Building America’s Future, a non-profit organization that advocates for increased investment in infrastructure and major transportation policy reform. During her 12 years on Capitol Hill, Trottenberg served with U.S. Senators Charles Schumer, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Barbara Boxer. Prior to her work in Congress, Trottenberg also served at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Trottenberg holds a B.A. in History from Barnard College and an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government and lives in Brooklyn.

Xavier (“Xav”) de Souza Briggs
Vice President, Ford Foundation
Xavier (“Xav”) de Souza Briggs is vice president of the foundation’s Economic Opportunity and Assets program. He leads the foundation’s work promoting economic fairness, advancing sustainable development, and building just and inclusive cities in the United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He also oversees the foundation’s regional programming in China, Indonesia, and India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Before joining the foundation in 2014, Xav was associate professor of sociology and urban planning and associate head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A renowned author, commentator and educator, he has led groundbreaking research in economic opportunity, democracy and governance, and racial and ethnic diversity in cities and metropolitan regions. Xav’s books include “The Geography of Opportunity” (Brookings, 2005) and “Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities across the Globe” (MIT Press, 2008), which examines efforts in the U.S. and other democracies—Brazil, India and South Africa—to lead change at the local level. His latest book, “Moving to Opportunity: The Story of an American Experiment to Fight Ghetto Poverty” (Oxford, 2010), won the best book of the year from the National Academy of Public Administration.

From January 2009 to August 2011, while on public service leave from the MIT faculty, Xav served as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget in the White House. There he oversaw a wide array of policy, budget and management issues for roughly half of the cabinet agencies of the federal government. Earlier in his career, Briggs served as a community planner in the South Bronx, an adviser at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a faculty member in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Xav holds an engineering degree from Stanford University, an MPA from Harvard and Ph.D. in sociology and education from Columbia University.

Dan Burden
Director of Innovation & Inspiration, Blue Zones
Co-Founder and Director of Innovation & Inspiration Walkable and Livable Communities Institute
Dan has spent more than 35 years helping the world get “back on its feet” and his efforts have not only earned him the first-ever lifetime achievement award issued by the New Partners for Smart Growth and the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, but in 2001, Dan was named by TIME magazine as “one of the six most important civic innovators in the world.” Also in that year, the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences honored Dan by making him their Distinguished Lecturer.

In 2009, a user’s poll by Planetizen named Dan as one of the Top 100 Urban Thinkers of all time. Early in his career, starting in 1980, Dan served for 16 years as the country’s first statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Coordinator for the Florida Department of Transportation and that program became a model for other statewide programs in the United States. In 1996, Dan sought to expand his reach and ability to really change the world, so he and his wife Lys co-founded a non-profit organization called Walkable Communities. Since then, Dan has personally helped 3,500 communities throughout the world become more livable and walkable. In 2009, Dan co-founded the WALC Institute with Director of Education Sarah Bowman to create education centered on capacity-building and training to support communities in becoming more engaged and healthier through active living. Dan serves on the board of advisers for Walkscore and Transportation for America.

Stephanie Pollack
Associate Director of Research, Northeastern University
Stephanie Pollack is Associate Director of the Kitty & Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, overseeing the Center’s research agenda as well as conducting her own research projects in the areas of transportation policy, transit-oriented development, sustainability and equitable development. Pollack is also on the core faculty for the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, teaching courses to graduate students in the Law, Policy and Society program and teaching and supervising internships for the Master of Urban and Regional Policy program. Her courses include Strategizing Public Policy, Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning, Housing Policy and Transportation Policy.

Pollack is active in public policy issues affecting transportation, sustainable development and the environment in Massachusetts. She co-chaired Governor Deval Patrick’s 2006 transition working group on transportation and served on Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Climate Action Leadership Committee in 2009-2010. She currently serves on the boards of Boston Society of Architects, Charles River Watershed Association, Health Resources in Action and MoveMass.

Before coming to Northeastern in 2004, Pollack was a senior executive and attorney at the Conservation Law Foundation, New England’s leading environmental advocacy organization. During her two-decade career at CLF, Pollack worked on issues including transportation and transit policy, smart growth and sustainable development and childhood lead poisoning. From 2004 through 2010 she was also a partner in the strategic environmental consulting firm BlueWave Strategies LLC, where she advised clients on smart growth, transit-oriented development and other “green” real estate projects.

Pollack received both a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a JD from Harvard Law School.

Dr. Eric Dumbaugh
Associate Professor & Director, School of Urban & Regional Planning - Florida Atlantic University
Dr. Eric Dumbaugh is an Associate Professor, Director of the School of Urban & Regional Planning and Program Coordinator for the Master of Urban & Regional Planning program. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Georgia Tech, and master’s degrees in Civil Engineering and City Planning, also from Georgia Tech. His research areas include street and community design, urban mobility, transportation systems planning, and the effects of transportation investments on sustainability and livability.

Dr. Dumbaugh’s published works include “Safe Urban Form: Revisiting the Relationship between Community Design and Traffic Safety,” which received the 2009 award for Best Paper from the Journal of the American Planning Association, and “The Design of Safe Urban Roadsides,” which received the Transportation Research Board’s 2006 Award for Outstanding Paper in Geometric Design.

Michael Kodranksy
Global Research Manager, Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
Michael is a transport and urban development specialist focused on shaping the built environment to improve economic and social conditions for people in cities around the world. Since joining ITDP in 2008, Michael has overseen many special projects and strategic initiatives. This includes leading research on best practices such as parking management, shared mobility concepts, land use regulations, spatial planning, real estate financing, street design and urban freight. He regularly works in partnership with cities, civil society groups, and multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank and Asian Development Bank in advocating for innovative solutions to urban mobility challenges.

Michael began work at ITDP from the former European office in Hamburg, Germany where he managed logistics in the Afribike program, contributed to a cycle infrastructure project in Slovakia and oversaw research on European parking management best practices. He has served on the international advisory board of the ITDP office in Budapest and is currently developing ITDP's emerging programmatic activities in Central-Eastern Europe and the commonwealth of independent states (CIS) region. Michael is bilingual in Russian, proficient in Spanish and has working knowledge of German and French. He holds a master’s degree in urban planning from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Adonia Lugo
Equity Initiative Manager, League of American Bicyclists
Adonia E. Lugo became the Equity Initiative Manager at the League in November 2013. She’s excited to lead the organization’s efforts to integrate equity into our internal programs and to build a national bike equity network. In collaboration with our Equity Advisory Council, she is creating reports and an equity toolkit that will be a resource for the bike movement in its efforts to reach more women, youth, and communities of color.

Adonia has worked since 2008 to bring cross-cultural understanding into bicycle advocacy, planning, and research. In her new role, she plans to keep connecting the dots between grassroots bike cultures and formal advocacy to help the League support many kinds of bike users. Adonia earned her doctorate in cultural anthropology from the University of California, Irvine, where her dissertation research focused on the social networks and cultural norms that shape how we use streets. She is always happy to talk about why and how bicycling can lead the way in equitable and sustainable urban change!

John Massengale
Architect, Board Member & Founding Chair, New York CNU Chapter
John Massengale has won awards for architecture, urbanism, architectural history and historic preservation, from organizations and publications ranging from Progressive Architecture and Metropolitan Home, to the National Book Award Foundation (with the first architectural history book to be nominated for a National Book Award), to several chapters of the American Institute of Architects. A Board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, he was the founding Chair of the New York chapter, CNU New York, and is a former Board member of the ICAA (Institute of Classical Art & Architecture) and FCWC (Federated Conservationists of Westchester County). Massengale is a licensed and registered architect in the State of New York.

John recently co-author the book Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities & Towns

 

Barbara McCann
Director, Office of Safety, Energy and Environment, US Department of Transportation
Barbara McCann brings exceptional communications, analytical, and partnership-building skills to her work for a better built environment and transportation system.

She founded and led the National Complete Streets Coalition in order to strategically address the need to create a safer and more inclusive transportation network. She engaged groups ranging from AARP to YMCA in working to ensure that roads are routinely designed, built, and operated for the safety of everyone using them. Under her direction, the Coalition spawned a movement and influenced the passage of hundreds of Complete Streets policies at the local, regional, and state level. She stepped away from day-to-day leadership of the Coalition in 2012 to write “Completing Our Streets,” a book about the keys to the movement’s success, and about the transportation practitioners who are using these key strategies in communities across the United States.

McCann has co-authored or edited several books on built environment and transportation investment issues, as well as numerous articles for transportation planning magazines and journals. She is the recipient of the 2011 Transportation Advancement Award from the NY/NJ Met Section of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, which recognizes the contributions of a non-engineer to the field.

Joan Byron
Director of Policy, Pratt Center for Community Development
Joan Byron leads Pratt Center’s research and advocacy work on issues of social, economic, and environmental justice in New York City and beyond. Her current and recent projects include post-Sandy rebuilding and resilience; supporting the Queens Fairness Coalition’s campaign for Flushing Meadows Corona Park; Pratt Center’s Transportation Equity atlas and campaign for a citywide Bus Rapid Transit network; support of the Bronx River Alliance’s work to restore the Bronx River and build an 8-mile greenway along its banks; and, with the Southern Bronx River Watershed Alliance, the campaign to replace the 1.25-mile Sheridan Expressway with waterfront housing and open space.

From 1989 through 2003, Joan directed Pratt Center’s nonprofit architectural practice in the design and construction of over 2,000 units of affordable housing, as well as community health, child care, and cultural facilities.

Joan is a registered architect, and has taught in Pratt Institute’s undergraduate architecture program, and in its Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment. She holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and in 2012 was awarded a fellowship from the Urban and Regional Policy Program of the German Marshall Fund, for research on equity and the public realm in global cities.

Robert Lane
Senior Fellow for Urban Design, Regional Plan Association
Rob Lane, an architect and urban designer, is a senior fellow for urban design at RPA. He directs the regional design program, which is devoted to improving the metropolitan landscape through research and place-based planning and design interventions. Mr. Lane’s current and recent past work focuses on the relationship between transit, land use and urban design and emphasizes public participation and communication through visual techniques. Projects include the Newark Vision Plan, the Far West Side Redevelopment Alternatives Study and the Civic Alliance community design workshop for the re-building of Lower Manhattan after the 9/11 attacks. Currently, he is co-managing RPA’s participation in the Rebuild by Design initiative, in partnership with the Institute for Public Knowledge, the Municipal Art Society and Van Alen Institute.

Before coming to RPA, Lane was an associate at Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects, PC. Mr. Lane received his bachelor of arts from Cornell University and a master of architecture from Columbia University.

Lane was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design during the 2008-09 academic year. Lane was recently a fellow at the Design Trust for Public Space for the Making Midtown initiative.

Ethan Kent
Senior Vice President, Project for Public Spaces
Ethan Kent works to support Placemaking organizations, projects and leadership around the world. During over 17 years at PPS, Ethan has traveled to more than 750 cities and 55 countries to advance the cause of Placemaking and public spaces. Ethan has been integral to the development of Placemaking as a transformative approach to economic development, environmentalism, transportation planning, governance and design.

Having worked on over 200 PPS projects, Ethan has led a broad spectrum of Placemaking efforts, providing comprehensive public engagement, planning and visioning for many important public spaces. Highlights have included: Portland Oregon’s Pioneer Courthouse Square; Times Square in New York; Kennedy Plaza in Providence, RI; Pompey Square, Nassau, Bahamas; Garden Place in Hamilton, New Zealand; and Sub Centro Las Condes in Santiago, Chile. He has also worked with some of the most high profile developments in the world to help maximize public space outcomes in Hong Kong, Las Vegas, San Francisco, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Auckland, Parramatta and Sao Paulo.

Douglas Adams
Chief Operating Officer, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Douglas E. Adams, AICP, is the chief operating officer of the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance, which works to protect, transform, and revitalize the New York and northern New Jersey harbor and waterfront. He has fifteen years’ experience in management and city planning and holds a master of urban planning degree from New York University. Prior to MWA, Douglas was the director of active transportation planning for Sam Schwartz Engineering, where he started and managed the active transportation service line. In that role, Douglas directed all aspects of transportation planning projects, including the firm’s largest (community outreach for the Second Avenue Subway, one of the largest capital construction projects in the U.S.). His work has focused on bicycle and pedestrian planning, design, safety, and public involvement to improve the multi-modal efficiency of urban spaces and reconnect urban waterfronts to upland communities.

Douglas serves on the board of directors of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, and his projects have received numerous awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies, the American Planning Association, the Women’s Transportation Seminar, and the Sierra Club. In 2004 Douglas moved to New York from Atlanta, where he managed the geographic information systems and drafting department of AGL Resources, the largest natural gas-only distribution company in the U.S. In Atlanta, Douglas served on the Zoning Board of Appeals for the City of Decatur, Georgia, and on Kennesaw State University’s Community Advisory Board for the Department of Geography and Anthropology.

Angela Tovar
Community Greening Planner, Sustainable South Bronx
From helping maintain the South Bronx Greenway to fighting for the removal of the Sheridan Expressway, our new Community Greening Planner, Angela Tovar, is dedicated to improvement. “I grew up in an industrial neighborhood similar to Hunts Point, and am committed to quality-of-life issues,” she says. “I saw the job description for Community Greening Planner and I thought, ‘This is my job. I’m getting this job.’”

SSBx Executive Director Michael Brotchner interviewed Angela, and agreed; she joined our team in December 2011. In addition to working on the Greenway and the Sheridan campaign, she also meets with political representatives, visits homeowners needing energy audits, hosts bike tours and testifies at public hearings. She’s also responsible for SSBx’s policy research, and she is currently working on a white paper on green zoning and other green building policies in New York City.

Tovar brings more than 10 years of experience to the job. She completed a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning at Hunter College, followed by a fellowship at the college’s Center for Community Planning and Development. Prior to that, Angela spent five years managing corporate volunteerism for Chicago Cares, and three years as both an administrator and corps member with National Civilian Community Corps, an Americorps program, working on community-based projects in Alabama, Tennessee and the Florida Keys.

Brian Ulaszewski
Executive Director, City Fabrick
Brian Ulaszewski received his Bachelors Degree of Architecture from the University of Southern California and has over a decade of experience working in the design and planning field. Brian has managed and led design efforts on award-winning urban planning studies and architecture projects and was recently recognized by the American Planning Association-Los Angeles with the John Chase Visionary Award . He frequently contributes to local and industry publications including the Long Beach Post and Urban Land Institute and speaks at numerous institutions. Through his involvement, accolades and featured articles Brian is a recognized leader for a better built environment.

Vincent Pellecchia
General Counsel, Tri-State Transportation Campaign
Vincent focuses on the legal issues involved in Tri-State’s work. Vincent joined the Campaign in March 2011 after living in China, where he worked with the World Wildlife Fund on the 2010 China Ecological Footprint Report and Green Earth Volunteers editing environment-related news articles. Prior to living in China, Vincent spent several years working in private practice focusing on commercial and bankruptcy law. Vincent holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School.

Project for Transportation Reform Leaders

Norman Garrick
Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Connecticut
Norman specializes in the planning and design of urban transportation systems, including transit, streets and highways, and bicycle and pedestrian facilities. As the Transportation Task Force co-chair, Garrick has been an essential member of the CNU/ITE urban thoroughfares project. At a critical point in the project, Garrick tirelessly reviewed comments on the manual and incorporated the advice in a productive way. Garrick holds a Ph.D. and MSCE from Purdue University, and a BSCE from the University of the West Indies, Trinidad. With a career that bridges academic study and engineering practice, Garrick is an effective leader in transportation reform.

Marcy McInelly
President, Urbsworks and CNU Board Vice Chair
Marcy McInelly has practiced architecture and urban design for more than 27 years in New York City and Portland, Oregon. In 1995, she founded Urbsworks, and redirected her expertise to the often-neglected space between buildings. Over time she has sharpened her focus on a multi-disciplinary, collaborative approach to sustainable urban design and placemaking, with a particular emphasis on smart, safe transportation and innovative codes for the benefit of communities.

In 2004, Marcy was appointed to co-chair the CNU Transportation Task Force, which she renamed the Project for Transportation Reform. This is the group that just published the “CNU Sustainable Street Network Principles,” and initiated the joint CNU and ITE (Institute of Transportation Engineers)Recommended Practice, “Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach.”

Through this work and projects at Urbsworks, she is committed to realizing the CNU Charter Principles in their highest form. Award-winning projects include the Lloyd Crossing Sustainable Urban Design Plan, the Roseway Vision Plan, the New Columbia HOPE VI community and school (all in Portland, Oregon), El Mirage Comprehensive Plan, Arizona, and NorthWest Crossing in Bend, Oregon. Marcy served as an appointed member of the Portland Planning Commission from 1997 until May of 2002 and she is a founding member of the Portland metropolitan region Coalition for a Livable Future, a network of 100+ non-profit and community based organizations working together for regional growth management. She is a graduate of the University of Oregon’s School of Architecture and Allied Arts. She currently serves on the Board of National Charrette Institute, and in 2011 was elected to the CNU Board.

Tim Sullivan
Planner, InterPlan
Tim Sullivan is a native of Utah, and brings almost a decade of experience in multi-modal transportation planning, land use planning, street design, and urban design in California and the West. Tim has led projects ranging from citywide transportation corridor plans to detailed street designs to design manuals to transit access studies. He uses expertise in policy, design, public involvement, economics, transportation, and ecology to enable vital and sustainable urban neighborhoods, corridors, and metropolitan regions. He communicates and problem-solves among professionals in diverse fields to deliver successful planning projects. He specializes in planning and urban design that supports pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit, and he has helped to innovate some of the latest best practices in these fields. Tim was a contributor to the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) publication Sustainable Street Network Principles, and is leading a team in developing a joint CNU/American Public Transit Association guidance document for transit networks. To all of his work, Tim consistently brings creativity and initiative.

Tim has also written extensively about the particular issues facing cities in the American West. A former journalist for several Utah publications, he is the author of the book No Communication with the Sea: Searching for an Urban Future in the Great Basin (University of Arizona Press, 2010) and is working on a forthcoming travel book about getting around the West without a car.

Mike Lydon
Founding Principal, The Street Plans Collaborative
Before launching the The Street Plans Collaborative in 2009, Lydon worked for Smart Growth Vermont, the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition, and Ann Arbor's GetDowntown Program. From 2006 - 2009 Lydon worked for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ).

As a planner, writer, and advocate, Mike's work has appeared in or been featured by CNN Headline News, Planetizen, Grist, Utne Reader, Next American City Magazine, New Urban News, Planning Magazine, Streetsblog, the Miami Herald, the El Paso Times, and The Village Voice, among other publications.

Mike collaborated with Andres Duany and Jeff Speck in writing The Smart Growth Manual, published by McGraw-Hill in 2009, and honored by Planetizen as one of the top ten planning books of 2010. A founding member of the New England Chapter of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), a Board Member for CNU New York, and a steering committee member of the Next Generation of New Urbanists, Lydon remains active in both local and national planning, design, and smart growth advocacy issues. Mike also speaks regularly at trainings and conferences on the topics of smart growth, planning and social media, complete streets, tactical urbanism, and active transportation. Mike remains a regular contributor to Planetizen and is a founding co-editor of A Living Urbanism. Mike was selected in 2009 as one of 34 Urban Vanguards by Next American City magazine. Mike is the primary author and editor of The Open Streets Project and Tactical Urbanism: Short-Term Action, Long-Term Change, two research efforts contributing to Pattern Cities, a project about cities and the ideas they incubate.

While living in Miami, Mike served as a member of the City's Bicycle Action Committee, where he helped spearhead the creation of the city's first Bicycle Action Plan, and the formulation of a monthly open streets initiative, entitled Bike Miami Days. He currently serves on an Executive Committee for Transportation Alternatives - one of the country's leading active transportation advocacy organizations, based in New York City and is an advisor to the Bicycle Coalition of Maine. Mike received a B.A. in American Cultural Studies from Bates College and a Masters in Urban Planning from the University of Michigan. Mike is a CNU-Accredited Professional and he encourages you to trade four wheels for two.

Rock Miller
Senior Principal, Transportation Planning & Traffic Engineering, Stantec
From traffic signal design, operation, and traffic impact analysis, to the design of transportation improvements for all users and training of young professionals, Rock has the experience our clients trust. Many know Rock as past President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers, while others know him as a leading authority on bicycle friendly design.

Rock has not only worked on a wide variety of unique transportation projects, but has prepared transportation policy plans and completed controversial and complex transportation studies. He’s no stranger to projects with intense public opposition and litigation by other public agencies. Whether it’s effective communication with government leaders, membership in influential committees, or testimony in court, Rock has unique qualifications that can be vital for challenging projects.

Rock has been invited to speak, regionally and nationally, on a range of topics from pedestrian circulation and innovative bikeway design to traffic calming and transportation policy.

Joseph Readdy
Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Portland State University
Joseph has a 30-year career in design, architecture, and urban design. Joseph’s projects range in scale from regional- and city-scale projects to individual design projects as small as the building, the room, and the object. Large scale projects include: regional plans, city plans, urban design; campus design; and hospital and healthcare facility master plans, Architectural projects include: hospitals and medical office buildings; wineries, restaurants, retail stores, and food-service facilities; residences; and “one-of-a-kind” projects – Center for Extreme Ultra-violet Astrophysics at U.C. Berkeley or C-141 Flight Simulator, Travis Air Force Base, Fairfield, California. Industrial design projects include: furniture design; interior design for the British Air Concorde; and surgical equipment – Arthroscopy stand surgical support equipment. Graphic design projects include: corporate identity graphics for Nissan Motor Corporation of America; graphic marks and logotypes; and typefaces.

Joseph is a member of the American Institute of Architects and is registered to practice architecture in Oregon and California. He is also certified by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. He is a LEED accredited professional. Joseph is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture, Portland State University where he introduced a graduate-level seminar on Urban Design Methods in 2008. Joseph is a graduate of Washington State University where he studied architecture and regional planning.

Norman Marshall
President, Smart Mobility
B.S. Mathematics, Worcester Polytechnic and M.S. Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College. Before co-founding SMI in 2001, Mr. Marshall worked at Resource Systems Group, Inc. from 1987-2001. He has managed many transportation modeling and planning projects for governments at all levels, and for non-profit public interest groups. These include projects in over 20 different states, and work for the Federal government.

Smart Mobility, Inc. was established in 2001 as a consulting firm based in Norwich, Vermont that integrates transportation and land use modeling, engineering, and planning.

Lynn Richards
President and CEO, CNU
Prior to joining CNU, Richards had a long and distinguished career at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), holding multiple leadership roles over 13 years including Acting Director and Policy Director in the Office of Sustainable Communities. She worked with dozens of state and local governments to implement placemaking approaches by developing policies, urban design strategies, and environmental solutions for vibrant, prosperous neighborhoods. Additionally, she produced groundbreaking research on water and land use strategies.

Before joining the EPA, Richards worked briefly in the private sector at a consulting firm. She lived and worked in the former Soviet Republics from 1988 to 1995, helping environmental groups increase their organizational and political effectiveness. Richards was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studies at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in the 2012-2013 school year. She has a dual Masters in Environmental Science and Public Affairs from Indiana University.

Rick Hall
President, Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc.
Based on his extensive transportation planning and conceptual design experience, the firm focuses on both Planning and Preliminary Engineering, especially the vital interface between Planning and Design. Transportation aspects of community plans, subarea/sector plans and corridor studies are key HPE emphasis areas. Expert witness, public participation and charrette tasks are routinely performed by HPE. Traffic engineering, site impact studies and private and public growth management related studies are also special skills of the firm. Other practice areas of the firm include hurricane evacuation studies and calculation of the all important evacuation clearance times and specialty data collection including origin/destination and trip generation studies.

Mr. Hall serves as a Visiting Professor in the Florida State University Department of Urban and Regional Planning where he teaches land use and transportation courses at the master's degree level. Extensive readings in the "New Urbanism," Neo-traditional neighborhood design and other emerging concepts led to a strengthened commitment to land use-based transportation planning. His academic background combined with active charrette and workshop design experience have made him uniquely qualified to deal with controversial transportation and land use projects.

Jacky Grimshaw
Vice President of Policy, Center for Neighborhoods Technology
Jacky joined CNT in 1992 and has since developed its capacity to engage in public policy advocacy, transportation research, public participation tool development, GIS mapping, and community economic development. Jacky created and has led CNT’s transportation and air quality programs and has led CNT’s Transit Future Campaign in the fight for mass transit reform in the Chicago region.

Jacky serves on numerous boards, including: Chicago Transit Authority, RTA Strategic Plan Advisory Committee, Smart Growth Network, and the IL53 Advisory Council. She recently completed terms on the National Academy of Sciences’ Transportation Research Board’s Committees on Women’s Issues in Transportation and Environmental Justice. She was appointed to the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel’s Transition Team. She has participated on several Advisory Committees for Illinois Governor Pat Quinn, including the Economic Recovery Commission, the Illinois Tollway Transition Team, and the Elgin-O’Hare West Bypass Advisory Council. She was recognized in 2009 with a Leon M. Despres Award from the Midwest Academy. She was a member of the Energy and Transportation Task Force of the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, and on the Boards of Congress for New Urbanism, CTA’s Citizens Advisory, Renew America-Renew the Earth and Smart Growth America, and also on the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership Steering Committee, and has been a longtime activist for social justice.

Prior to CNT, Jacky spent time as a researcher in hematology and gastroenterology, worked in both state and federal government, for the Chicago Public School district and served in numerous other capacities, including political advisor for the late Mayor Harold Washington and Director of the Mayor’s Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, Deputy City Treasurer, talk show host for the Chicago NPR and ABC affiliates, and columnist for Crain’s Chicago Business. Jacky has completed the MA in Public Policy requirements at Governors State University and holds a BS in Biology from Marquette University in Milwaukee.

Kenneth Voigt
Senior Traffic Engineer, Ayres Associates
In addition to working as CNU Wisconsin's President, Kenneth served as the 2009 International President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers. He has served as a technical reviewer of the recent CNU/ITE handbooks on ‘Designing Walkable Urban Thoroughfares: A Context Sensitive Approach’ and ‘Transportation Impact Analysis for Site Design’. Mr. Voigt has published papers and given presentations on ‘Rethinking Street Design for Living’, ‘Transportation’s Role in Sustainability’ and ‘Traffic Calming for Neighborhood and Arterial Streets’. In his role as an adjunct professor at the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Voigt has taught courses on the environmental impact of transportation, complete streets, context sensitive design, pedestrian/bicycle facility design and roundabouts along with classes on traffic operation and roadway safety analysis. Mr. Voigt was actively involved in the initial development of the City of Charlotte Street Design Guidelines.

Wesley E. Marshall, PhD, PE
Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering & Adjunct Professor in Urban and Regional Planning , University of Colorado Denver
Dr. Wesley Marshall is currently an assistant professor of Civil Engineering and adjunct professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Colorado Denver, program director of the University Transportation Center through the Mountain Plains Consortium, co-director of the Active Communities/Transportation (ACT) research group, and an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (CSIS) that houses the NSF IGERT Program. I received my Professional Engineering (P.E.) license in 2003 and focus on transportation teaching and research dedicated to creating more sustainable urban infrastructures, particularly in terms of road safety, active transportation, and transit. Other recent teaching and research topics involve: transportation planning and land use modeling, parking, health, and street networks. Having spent time in the private sector with Sasaki Associates, and Clough, Harbour and Associates, I have been working on planning and site design issues related to civil and transportation engineering for the last fifteen years. A native of Watertown, Massachusetts, I am a graduate of the University of Virginia, the University of Connecticut, a recipient of the Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship, and winner of the Charley V. Wootan Award for Outstanding TRB Paper in the field of Policy and Organization.