Staff

Corinne Kisner

Title: Executive Director

As Deputy Director of NACTO, Corinne oversees the organization’s national programs and publications, manages an incredible team of NACTO staff, and liaises with a network of leading city transportation officials to advance people-oriented urban design.

Alex Engel

Title: Senior Manager, Communications

Alex leads NACTO’s communications and manages the annual Designing Cities Conference. You’ll also see him riding transit and trying out bike share in all the NACTO member cities.

Aminah Ricks

NACTO Title: Senior Program Manager, Capacity Building

Aminah joins NACTO as Senior Program Manager, Capacity Building leading the strategy for curricular opportunities that train city transportation professionals to advance sustainable and just design, policy, and organizational culture. Aminah is an architect, urbanist, writer, and teacher who created Future Planners to include and empower children in the process of improving our cities. […]

Billy Richling

Title: Program Manager, Communications

Billy is a Program Manager for Communications at NACTO, where he strategizes and executes communications plans for the organization’s campaigns. He previously wrote about politics, real estate and everything Brooklyn as a staff reporter for the community news site Bklyner. He also helped manage the Crossroads of the World as Constituent & Communications Manager at […]

Camille Boggan

Title: Program Associate

Camille is a Program Associate at NACTO. She supports NACTO’s peer network programming, including the American Cities Climate Challenge, and conducts quantitative analyses for projects and publications. Before joining NACTO, Camille served as a policy analyst at a nationally-recognized community development financial institution and as a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for […]

Cary Bearn

NACTO Title: Senior Program Manager, Biking

Cary is a Senior Program Manager leading NACTO’s bicycle and shared micromobility programs. Cary is leading the update to the Urban Bikeway Design Guide, a multi-year effort that includes releasing seven working papers used to expand the scope of the updated guide. Cary also convenes roundtables, facilitates Cities for Cycling and Shared Micromobility peer network […]

Celine Schmidt

Title: Visual Communications Manager

Celine Schmidt is NACTO’s Visual Communications Manager, where she produces and coordinates NACTO’s visual communications, ensuring that they are effective, accessible, and engaging for all audiences. She is committed to improving visual education and storytelling strategy for nonprofits, and has previously worked in both creative and program roles with the Participatory Budgeting Project, WaterAid America, […]

Dana Jacks

NACTO Title: Events & Operations Associate

Dana is the Events & Operations Associate at NACTO, where she is responsible for event and training logistics of the American Cities Climate Challenge (ACCC) and other NACTO workshops throughout the year. She joined NACTO with experience in project management and event planning, allowing her to help NACTO and participating cities in the ACCC fulfill […]

Fielding Hong

Title: Program Manager, Capacity Building

Fielding Hong is a Program Manager on the Capacity Building team at NACTO, supporting curricular opportunities that train city transportation professionals to advance sustainable and just design, policy, and organizational culture. Throughout his career he has worked at the intersections of education, art and design, civic engagement, and social justice. Fielding has worked as both […]

Hannah McCasland

Title: Senior Events Manager

Hannah manages dynamic events that advance NACTO’s goal to connect, challenge, and champion the city transportation professionals working towards equitable, sustainable mobility policy and people-centered street design. As Senior Events Manager, Hannah leads the production of the Designing Cities conference. Hannah brings over 5 years of experience managing events of many formats and sizes. Most […]

Jenny O’Connell

Jenny O’Connell

NACTO Title: Senior Program Manager, Safety

Jenny O’Connell is a Senior Program Associate at NACTO. Many of her projects focused on the impact of transportation on greenhouse gas emissions and on the relationship between active transportation and public health.

Katya Tabakina

Title: Senior Manager, Finance & Administration

Katya Tabakina is the Senior Manager of Finance & Administration at NACTO. Prior to joining NACTO, Katya worked as an Associate Director of Finance at the National Network for Safe Communities, a project of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In this role, Katya oversaw complicated grants and served as a key resource for problem solving […]

Kris Chandler

NACTO Title: Program Associate

Kris is a Program Associate at NACTO working cross functionally to achieve departmental goals. He supports programmatic efforts by way of curating case studies and other publications in order to showcase the work accomplished by NACTO’s peer network and member cities. Prior to joining NACTO, Kris served as a program associate for a New York […]

Lauren Nixon

NACTO Title: Associate Director, People and Culture

Lauren Nixon is a people and culture leader who is energized by mobilizing and coaching high-impact teams to connect to one another and their organizational mission. She also guides organizations toward building strong, equitable internal processes and operational infrastructure. Lauren has a rich background in people and culture work, team management, operations, organizational development, professional […]

Laurie Alemian-Derian

Laurie Alemian-Derian

Title: Director of Finance and Administration

Laurie Alemian-Derian joined NACTO in 2015 and serves as Director of Finance and Administration. In this role, she oversees the non-program operational functions and manages financial, human resources and administrative aspects of the organization.

Matthew Roe

Title: Technical Lead

Matthew leads NACTO’s street design work in North America, serving as technical editor of the organization’s design guidance.

Samaiyah Patrick

Samaiyah Patrick

NACTO Title: Program Associate

Samaiyah works at NACTO as a Program Associate. She supports NACTO’s Engagement Team efforts, helping to curate curricular opportunities that train city transportation professionals to advance sustainable and just design, policy, and organizational culture. She joins NACTO with experience in community focused approaches to urban planning and a commitment to equity and inclusion. Samaiyah previously […]

Yadira Cabrera

Title: Engagement Manager

Yadira is NACTO’s Engagement Manager. Prior to joining NACTO, Yadira worked on the logistics of domestic and international trade shows, conferences, and conventions in the pharmaceutical, food production, information technology, and healthcare industries. In 2015, she joined an event technology company where she supported the planning, development and implementation of event logistics. Recently, she worked […]