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Louis Pappas

Title: Co-founder & Principal, Electric Avenue

Louis is a Co-founder and Principal at Electric Avenue. He served for 5 years in the Obama-Biden White House, first in public procurement policy and eventually on transport and logistics as an advance aide to President Obama. He helped found the RFP response teams at Via Transportation and at Bird, where he most recently led […]

Melinda Hanson

Title: Co-founder & Principal, Electric Avenue

Melinda is Co-founder and Principal at Electric Avenue, a public affairs and mobility policy firm whose mission is to accelerate the transition to human-scale, zero-emission mobility. She’s spent her career working at the intersection of transport and climate, including as Head of Sustainability at Bird, Deputy Director at NACTO’s Global Designing Cities Initiative, and Portfolio […]

Siddharth Shah

Title: Planner + Engineer, Sam Schwartz

Siddharth Shah is a Planner + Engineer at Sam Schwartz with expertise in data analysis and project delivery of traffic safety improvement projects. Mr. Shah works closely with the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) on the Vision Zero Chicago program. He is involved in the planning, designing, and implementing improvements to equitably make Chicago streets […]

Po Sun

Title: Senior Planner, Sam Schwartz

Po Sun is a Senior Planner at Sam Schwartz specializing in communicating complex ideas and plans through thoughtful design strategies that help communities make informed decisions. He has over six years of public and private sector experience, managing and performing numerous transportation planning studies that designing Complete Streets to provide equitable and safe environments for […]

Lian Farhi

Title: Senior Planner, Sam Schwartz

Lian Farhi is a Senior Planner at Sam Schwartz specializing in public space design, complete streets, and placemaking. She possesses a multidisciplinary background and years of experience practicing architecture, urban design and multi-modal transportation planning. Ms. Farhi has designed, implemented, and managed a range of real-world projects to create safe, livable, and future-ready streets.

Alex Hanson

Title: Senior Planner, Sam Schwartz

Alex Hanson is a Senior Planner at Sam Schwartz who works with cities across the country to better connect their transportation policies and street design to community goals like safety, resiliency, and equity. Alex specializes in helping cities translate their mobility goals into meaningful performance metrics and creating new organizational processes and structures to better […]

Donna Williams

Title: Administrator of the Department of Economic & Community Development, City of Chattanooga

Donna C. Williams is a mayoral appointee and serves as the Administrator of the Department of Economic & Community Development for Mayor Andy Berke in Chattanooga, TN. Her department includes several divisions: Community Development & Housing, Economic & Workforce Development, Land Development Office, Regional Planning Agency, Public Art, Open Spaces, Code Enforcement, Real Property & […]

Alex Johnston

Title: Civic Designer, Cities Reimagined

Alex Johnston is a civic designer and social entrepreneur. In 2014, Alex founded Cities Reimagined, a civic design firm that employs principles of design to solve complex challenges in urban cities. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics with a Master’s Degree in Cities. Alex started her career as a social worker, […]

Jennifer Godzeno

Title: Director of Engagement

Jennifer Godzeno directs NACTO’s member engagement strategy, leadership programs, and the Designing Cities conference. She is an engaging facilitator and public speaker who has spent over a decade centering the civic power of communities of color in planning decisions. She led the government technical assistance unit as Deputy Director at the Participatory Budgeting Project, and […]