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Kristen Simpson

Title: Revenue and Capital Development Manager, Seattle Department of Transportation

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Kristen Simpson specializes in working on projects before they become popular, including managing exploratory phases of car sharing, bike sharing, modern streetcars, and now congestion pricing. She helped create the SDOT’s project development division and currently manages a team that has secured more than $200 million in grants to leverage Seattle’s transportation levy funding. She […]

Chad Crager

Title: Division Manager, Community Services, Public Works Department, City of Austin

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Chad Crager is the Manager of the Community Services Division at the City of Austin Public Works Department, which includes the Urban Trails Program, Child Safety Program, and Neighborhood Partnering Program. Mr. Crager has been an avid cyclist in Austin for more than 10 years and wears normal clothes to ride a bicycle. Mr. Crager […]

Darby Watson

Title: Director, Project Development Division, Seattle Department of Transportation

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Darby Watson is the Director of the Project Development Division whose task is to package, define, and develop all types of transportation projects for the City of Seattle. For more than 17 years, Darby has strived to make streets more livable. Her work has included design of full streetscape projects, managing Vision Zero and Complete […]

Gina Fiandaca

Title: ‎Commissioner, Boston Transportation Department

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Lori Ardito

Title: Independent Consultant, iDEKOgov

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Lori Ardito is an independent consultant with iDEKOgov. Previously, Ms. Ardito served as First Deputy Commissioner for New York City Department of Transportation, a role she was appointed to in May 2007. As DOT’s chief operating officer, she oversaw the divisions in the Department that ensure the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible movement of people, goods, and vehicles […]

Ema Yamamoto

Title: ‎Asset Manager, Department of Streets, City of Philadelphia

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Mari Hunter

Title: Senior Transportation Planner, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Mari Hunter is a senior transportation planner with the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency. She studied Mathematical Economics at the Colorado College and civil engineering and urban planning at the University of Minnesota. For the past 4 years, she has been working at the SFMTA as a project manager on multimodal projects and more recently, […]

Al Alonzi

Title: Texas Division Administrator, Federal Highway Administration

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

In July 2014, Al was named the FHWA Texas Division Administrator. As a key member of the Agency management team, Al exercises executive direction over the $3.2 B annual Federal-aid apportionment to Texas, one of the largest and most complex Federal-aid programs in the Nation. As Division Administrator, he leads a multidisciplinary staff of 50 […]

Gregory Fenves

Title: President, The University of Texas at Austin

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Greg Fenves began his appointment as president of The University of Texas at Austin on June 3, 2015. Previously, he served the university as executive vice president and provost. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the highest national honor awarded to engineers in the United States, and holds the Cockrell Family […]