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Emily Castor

Title: Director of Community Relations, Lyft

A member of the Lyft team since launch, Emily built Lyft’s community of drivers and passengers from the ground up. As Director of Community Relations, she manages grassroots outreach and accessibility initiatives. Emily currently serves as the founding Chair of the Sharing Economy Advisory Network for the National League of Cities. Before working in tech, […]

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Christine Calabrese

Title: BRT Program Manager, Oakland

Christine Calabrese, PMP, CASp, has managed the $180 million East Bay Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Program for the City Of Oakland since 2012. Ms. Calabrese earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the State University of New York at Buffalo and honed her project management skills on major residential, hospital, and interior architectural projects […]

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Jessica Brooks

Title: Manager, Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation Program, Philadelphia Water Department

Jessica Brooks, PE is the Manager of the Green Stormwater Infrastructure Implementation Program for the Philadelphia Water Department’s Office of Watersheds. Throughout her career, Ms. Brooks has applied her engineering background to a wide range of water resource protection projects from the city block up to the watershed scale. Her primary focus at PWD is […]

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Dale Bracewell

Dale Bracewell

Title: Manager, Transportation Planning, Vancouver
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Dale Bracewell is the Manager of Transportation Planning for the City of Vancouver (Canada). Dale and his team lead the citywide and community planning implementation of Transportation 2040, the city’s long range transportation plan for all modes, including funding strategies and coordination with regional and provincial transportation plans and policies. Dale previously led the City’s Active […]

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Gwyneth Borden

Title: Member, SFMTA Board of Directors

Gwyneth Borden is the former manager of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs at IBM and a member of the SFMTA Board of Directors in 2014. Ms. Borden has served in a variety of civic roles including serving on San Francisco’s Planning Commission and as a former aide to then Supervisor Gavin Newsom. In 2013, she […]

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Josh Benson

Title: Assistant Commissioner, Street Improvement Projects, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Joshua Benson is Assistant Commissioner, Street Improvement Projects, at NYC DOT. Previously he served as the Director of Bicycle & Pedestrian Programs for the New York City Department of Transportation. He manages the DOT’s Bicycle Program, Pedestrian Projects Group and Office of School Safety Engineering. Mr. Benson has overseen the City’s unprecedented expansion of the on-street […]

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Urshula Barbour

Title: Principal, Pure + Applied

Urshula’s approach to design is informed by a multidisciplinary background that includes architecture, anthropology, communications, public policy and social history. Her background serves well P+A’s diverse projects and clients—they include archives, architects, artists, city agencies, foundations, libraries, magazines, museums, publishers, and universities. Prior to founding P+A she was a research fellow at the Center for […]

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Janet Attarian

Janet Attarian

Title: Deputy Director, Department of Planning and Development, City of Detroit
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Janet Attarian joined the City of Detroit Department of Planning and Development in June 2016. She brings 20 years of expertise in large-scale sustainable transportation programs from Chicago. Acclaimed as a promising and gifted innovator in design, management and policy, she forms part of the leadership team transforming Detroit.

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Allison Arieff

Title: Editorial Director, SPUR

Allison Arieff is Editorial Director of the urban planning and policy think tank, SPUR. She is a contributing columnist for the New York Times and writes about design, architecture and cities for numerous other publications including CityLab, the MIT Technology Review and Dialogue. Arieff lectures and consults regularly on architecture, design, and media. From 2002 […]

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Michael Andersen

Michael Andersen suspects he might be the only person to hold simultaneous membership in both the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals and the Online News Association. He moved to the urban transportation niche in 2010 after five years in daily newspapers. He’s the staff writer for the PeopleForBikes Green Lane Project, the news editor […]

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