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Benito Pérez

Benito Pérez

Title: Policy Director, Transportation for America
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Benito O. Pérez, AICP CTP CPM CAPP (he/him) is the Policy Director of Transportation for America. He previously served in various roles at Washington DC’s District Department of Transportation since 2012, which included Curbside Management & Operations Planning Manager, Curbside Management Planner, and Transportation Policy Specialist. During his DDOT tenure, he worked on and managed […]

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Steven Higashide

Steven Higashide

Title: Director of Research, TransitCenter
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Steven Higashide is Director of Research for TransitCenter, a New-York-based foundation that supports innovations in urban transportation across the country. He directs TransitCenter’s research aimed at measuring American attitudes toward public transit, and develops policy guides and workshops that help cities enact transit-supportive policy. His research has been widely cited by mainstream and industry media, including the Washington Post, Vox, and Wired. In […]

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Josh Rogers

Josh Rogers

Title: President & CEO, NewTown Macon
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Josh Rogers leads the non-profit NewTown Macon, where he works to attract, leverage and invest in self-sustaining transformation for downtown Macon, Georgia.  Over his career, Rogers has become an innovator in using real estate to spark and sustain revitalization in communities desperate for reinvestment.   One of Rogers’ signature abilities is to use market forces to […]

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Gustavo Pinheiro Lessa Parente

Gustavo Pinheiro Lessa Parente

Title: Engineer, Fortaleza Department of Non-motorized Transportation
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Gustavo has a degree in Civil Engineering at the Federal University of Ceará (2008). Between 2008 and 2013 he worked in Fortaleza’s Traffic Management and Traffic Lights management. Since 2014, Gustavo has been working on the Cycling Mode Management Sector of Fortaleza’s City Hall. His work mainly involves the planning, implementation and monitoring of cycling infrastructure, […]

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Beatriz Rodriguez

Beatriz Rodriguez

Title: Urban Design Coordinator, BIGRS
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Beatriz Rodrigues Andrade is an Architect and Urban Designer with over four years of experience. Beatriz is working within the Public Services and Conservation Department in the Safer Mobility and Safer Streets focus area as Urban Design Coordinator. Prior to joining the initiative, Beatriz worked in Public Services and Conservation Department serving as Transportation Planner […]

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Charles Brown

Charles Brown

Title: Senior Researcher, Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center
Adjunct Professor, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Charles T. Brown, MPA is a self-proclaimed “street level researcher,” working at the intersection of transportation, health, and equity. He serves as a senior researcher with the Alan M. Voorhees Transportation Center (VTC) and adjunct professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, both at Rutgers University. He has 17 years of […]

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Dr. Daniel Moser

Dr. Daniel Moser

Title: Professional and Presentation Skills Director, Northwestern University

Dr. Moser specializes in the art and science of communications training for professionals in financial, business, engineering, medical, design, and other technical fields.

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Jessica Noon

Title: Manager, Green Infrastructure Partnerships, ‎Philadelphia Water Department

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