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Ratna Amin

Title: Transportation Policy Director, SPUR

Ratna Amin leads SPUR’s work to create a high quality transportation system in the cities of San Francisco and San Jose and across the entire Bay Area region. Her areas of focus include growing transit usage, agency strategic planning, technology, and community processes. Her previous roles include chief of staff to the Oakland City Council president, […]

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Diana Alarcon

Title: Director of Transportation and Mobility, Ft Lauderdale

Diana Alarcon brings more than 25 years of private and public sector experience to Ft Lauderdale in the position of Director of Transportation and Mobility. This newest of City department’s raises the profile of sustainable transportation policy, planning and engineering to an executive level in the organization. Fort Lauderdale is at the epicenter of South […]

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Robin Abad

Title: Urban Designer, San Francisco Planning Department

Robin Abad Ocubillo is an Urban Designer with the San Francisco Planning Department. He currently manages the City’s Parklet Program as well as other Pavement to Parks projects, while also coordinating human use studies of public spaces. His current and past scholarship has focused on the production and performance evaluation of small urban open spaces; […]

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Emily Snyder

Emily Snyder

Title: Urban Mobility Manager, Denver Public Works
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Emily Snyder is the Urban Mobility Manager with Denver Public Works Transportation and Mobility and oversees the planning and multimodal transportation programs. She has over 15 years’ experience in transportation planning and project development, most recently serving in leadership role on the Mayors Mobility Action Plan and Denver’s GO Bond.

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Jamie Parks

Jamie Parks

Title: Livable Streets Director, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

Jamie Parks manages the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s Livable Streets Division, which oversees the city’s programs for bicycle and pedestrian capital improvements, traffic calming,  bikeshare, and school crossing guards. Under Jamie’s leadership, Livable Streets has implemented over 11 miles of protected bike lanes in 2017 and 2018, overseen policy and legislative changes to integrate […]

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Peter Koonce

Peter Koonce

Title: Division Manager, Signals & Street Lighting Division, City of Portland
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Peter Koonce, P.E., manages the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Signals, Street Lighting, & ITS Division and is responsible for the oversight of an annual budget in excess of $13 Million. He has served as an adjunct professor at Portland State University teaching graduate level courses in transportation engineering. He is a member of […]

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David Vega-Barachowitz

David Vega-Barachowitz

Title: Graduate Student, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT
NACTO Title: NACTO Staff Emeritus

David Vega-Barachowitz joined the staff of NACTO in February 2011. From 2011 through 2014, he served as the first Director of NACTO’s Designing Cities initiative (2013-14), the Sustainable Initiatives Program Manager (2011-13), and a NACTO Fellow (2011). Under the leadership of former New York City Transportation Commissioner and then-NACTO President Janette Sadik-Khan, David shepherded many […]

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Mike Amsden

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

Mike oversees CDOT’s Bike and Pedestrian Planning and Design Programs and is involved in various other surface transportation planning projects. Mike oversees infrastructure work related to Chicago’s Vision Zero Initiative and has served as Project Manager for two major CDOT Bicycle Initiatives – Chicago’s Protected Bike Lane Initiative and the Streets for Cycling Plan 2020.

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Nicole Freedman

Nicole Freedman

Title: Chief of Active Transportation, City of Seattle
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Nicole Freedman recently started working as Chief of Active Transportation for the City of Seattle where she is overseeing the expansion of bike share, creation of Summer Parkways programs, a new TDM 2.0 program and more. Previously, she worked as Director of Bicycle Programs for the City of Boston which was part of Mayor Menino’s […]

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Dr. Harriet Senie

Title: Director of Museum Studies, City College Art Department
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Harriet F. Senie is director of museum studies and professor of art history at City College and the CUNY Graduate Center.  In fall 2000 she was visiting distinguished professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Previously she worked as Associate Director of The Art Museum, Princeton University and Director of the Amelie Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury.  […]

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