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Jessica Zenk

Title: Deputy Director, San Jose Department of Transportation

Jessica Zenk is Acting Deputy Director for the City of San Jose Department of Transportation, where she leads an exceptional team professionals planning, designing and building a more accessible and sustainable San Jose. Jessica is an urban planner with expertise in economic development, transportation, infill and redevelopment, and the arts. Prior to joining the City of San Jose, Jessica directed […]

Andy Thornley

Title: Senior Analyst, SFMTA

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Andy Thornley is a practitioner with the SF Municipal Transportation Agency, currently leading the SFMTA’s on-street car share pilot project, placing hundreds of shared vehicles in curb parking spaces across the city. Andy was part of the team working on the SFMTA’s SFpark program, an award-winning federally-funded pilot rationalizing the way San Francisco manages parking […]

Lauren Mattern

Title: Senior Associate, Nelson\Nygaard

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Lauren’s forward-looking perspective and broad public sector experience result in successfully implemented, bold projects. She is an industry expert on the intractable role of parking within the built environment and public health realms and provides expertise on multimodal planning and transportation management strategies. She has a passion for data-driven decision making and great user design, […]

Jack Madans

Title: Government Partnerships, Code for America

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Jack Madans (Government Partnerships Manager) Jack’s work with CfA’s government partners ranges broadly from innovation policy and open data efforts to change management and community organizing. He cut his teeth as a community organizer early on when he founded the pilot project, FoodCycle, while studying at the London School of Economics. While interning at the […]

Jay Nath

Title: Chief Innovation Officer, SF Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Jay Nath became San Francisco’s first Chief Innovation Officer and White House Champion of Change after establishing the nation’s first open source government software policy and San Francisco’s open data legislation. In collaboration with the White House, Nath launched the Mayor’s Entrepreneurship-in-Residence program offering an on-premises incubator at City Hall, meant to apply startup ingenuity […]

Julie Lein

Title: President and Co-founder, Tumml

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Julie is the Co-founder and President of Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator based in San Francisco. A nonprofit, Tumml’s mission is to empower entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. Since Tumml’s inception less than two years ago, the organization has supported over 50 entrepreneurs from 17 startups, working to solve community issues from homelessness to workforce […]

Jennifer Borden

Title: Member, SFMTA Board of Directors

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

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 […]

Gabriel Metcalf

Title: President and CEO, SPUR

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Gabriel Metcalf is the President & CEO of SPUR, a nonprofit membership organization that promotes good planning and good government through research, education and advocacy. Under his leadership, SPUR has grown dramatically in influence and membership. Gabriel has authored or co-authored such notable articles as “The Northern California Megaregion,” “Civic Planning in America,” “Regional Planning without […]

Jennifer Pahlka

Title: Founder and Executive Director, Code for America

NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America. She recently served as the US Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is known for her TED talk, Coding a Better Government, and is the recipient of several awards, including the Oxford Internet Institute’s Internet […]

Jeffrey Tumlin

Title: Director of Transportation, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA)

NACTO Title: NACTO Treasurer

Jeffrey Tumlin was named Director of Transportation of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency in December 2019. He oversees the Municipal Railway (Muni), parking, traffic engineering, bicycle and pedestrian safety, transportation accessibility and taxi regulation for the City & County of San Francisco. Jeffrey guided the SFMTA as it provided essential transportation services to San Francisco […]