Julia Friedlander’s career in New York City and San Francisco as a public policy architect, manager and lawyer drew her into many periods of transformational change, including the public health crisis of HIV, restructuring of the telecommunications market and emergence of high speed internet infrastructure, the LGBT civil rights and marriage equality movements, and the restructuring of San Francisco transportation governance and funding.  She served as General Counsel to the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency for 11 years.  After a three year stint in higher education law, she returned to the SFMTA in 2018 to focus on local, state, and federal policy related to driving automation.