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Frank Hebbert

Title: Product Manager, Motivate
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Frank leads the talented OpenPlans team, exploring how technology, planning, citizens, and government come together. He thinks we can make better places and beat climate change with the winning combo of planning, technology and public participation. Frank holds a Masters in City Planning from MIT. He blogs intermittently on open source planning, tweets slightly more, […]

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Sam Hashemi

Title: Co-founder, Transitmix

Sam is a user experience researcher and designer working at Code for America to build a new generation of urban planning software. Previously he worked NASA where he led an effort to redesign the 1990s era systems aboard the International Space Station with modern iPad and iPhone apps. He holds a Masters in Human-Computer Interaction […]

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Nina Haiman

Title: Deputy Manhattan Borough Commissioner, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Nina Haiman is the Deputy Manhattan Borough Commissioner at the New York City Department of Transportation. In this position she conducts outreach for agency projects such as protected bicycle paths, intersection/corridor safety treatments, and transit initiatives. Nina has an undergraduate degree from Wesleyan University and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Rutgers University.

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Karen Haley

Title: Executive Director, Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc.

Karen Haley is the Executive Director of Indianapolis Cultural Trail Inc. She formerly served as the first director of the city’s Office of Sustainability. In the Office of Sustainability, which Indianapolis created in 2008, Haley oversaw activities like energy audits of city buildings and creating rain gardens. Haley has undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech in […]

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Vineet Gupta

Vineet Gupta

Title: Director of Planning, Boston Transportation Department
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Vineet Gupta is the Director of Planning for the Boston Transportation Department. In that role he has directed the City’s recently published transportation plan, Go Boston 2030, and its national award winning Complete Streets Guidelines.  His team implements bike lanes and Green Links paths; manages the Blue Bikes bike-share system; and redesigns major corridors and squares […]

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Chris Ganson

Title: Senior Planner, California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research

Chris Ganson is a Senior Planner with the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, working on issues at the intersection of transportation and land use planning. Chris’ recent efforts have included crafting the parameters of CEQA streamlining for infill and developing transportation greenhouse gas emissions quantification methodologies. Currently, he serves at technical lead for the […]

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Tim Frémaux

Tim Frémaux

Title: Senior Transportation Engineer, Los Angeles DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Tim Frémaux works as a Senior Transportation Engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, overseeing LADOT’s two San Fernando Valley District Offices. District Offices serve as the front lines for the Department, evaluating issues and concerns brought up by constituents, elected officials, and other stakeholders, and responding to those inquiries with transportation solutions. Tim […]

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Cara Ferrentino

Title: Manager of Strategic Initiatives, Philadelphia Mayor's Office of Transportation & Utilities

Cara Ferrentino is a planner with the Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Transportation & Utilities (MOTU). At MOTU she is a project manager for the city’s forthcoming bike share system, with responsibility for station planning, community outreach, contract management, and other aspects of program development. Prior to joining the City of Philadelphia, Cara served as a […]

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Ivy Dunlap

Title: Landscape Architect, Sustainable Stormwater Division, Portland Bureau of Environmental Services

Ivy Dunlap, RLA, ASLA, is a landscape architect at Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services Sustainable Stormwater Division. Her recent projects — all of which integrate community-inspired design, public art, bike safety and sustainable stormwater landscaping — include Holman Pocket Park, Tabor to the River, and Dekum Stormwater/Art/Bike Corral. Ivy served as a policy advisor to […]

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