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John Robert Smith

Title: President & CEO, Reconnecting America; former Mayor of Meridian, MS
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

John Robert Smith is the President and CEO of Reconnecting America, was formerly the Mayor of Meridian, Mississippi, and is a long-time leader on behalf of passenger rail. He is co-chairman of Transportation for America, a former Chairman of Amtrak’s board, and a former member of the transportation committees of the National League of Cities […]

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Harriet Senie

Title: Director of Museum Studies, City College of New York
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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Emily Colasacco

Title: Manager, Urban Art Program, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

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Aaron Naparstek

Title: Loeb Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Founder of Streetsblog
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Aaron Naparstek is the founder and former editor-in-chief of Streetsblog. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Naparstek’s journalism, advocacy and community organizing work has been instrumental in growing the bicycle network, removing motor vehicles from parks, and developing new public plazas, car-free streets and life-saving traffic-calming measures across all five boroughs. Naparstek is the author of […]

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Javier Lopez

Javier Lopez

Title: Chief Strategy Officer, Red Hook Initiative
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Javier William Lopez was recently appointed as the Red Hook Initiative’s first chief strategy officer, has spent the bulk of his career advancing racial, gender, social and economic equity for communities of color. Prior to joining the Red Hook Initiative, Javier served as one of the assistant commissioners at the Center for Health Equity, a […]

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Veronica Vanterpool

Veronica Vanterpool

Title: Deputy Director, Vision Zero Network
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Veronica Vanterpool is Deputy Director of the national Vision Zero Network which works with communities across the U.S. to eliminate all traffic fatalities and severe injuries while increasing safe, healthy and equitable mobility for all. Ms. Vanterpool is the former executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, a nonprofit advocacy organization, where she spent 10 […]

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Signe Nielsen

Title: Principal, Matthews Nielsen Landscape Architects
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Signe Nielsen, principal of Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects has been practicing as a landscape architect for more than 35 years. For 30 years she has been a Professor in both the graduate and undergraduate Schools of Architecture at Pratt Institute. A Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, Ms. Nielsen’s design work has received […]

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Ron Milam

Title: Principal-In-Charge of Technical Development, Fehr & Peers
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Ron Milam is the Principal-In-Charge of Technical Development with Fehr & Peers.  He is actively involved in a wide variety of project work but also finds time to: Co-lead the firm’s research and development efforts; Teach a UC Davis extension course on transportation and land use planning; Serve on the TRB Special Committee for Travel […]

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Joshua Schank

Title: President & CEO, Eno Center for Transportation
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Joshua L. Schank is President and CEO of the Eno Center for Transportation, a non-profit foundation with the mission of improving transportation policy and leadership. Schank, who is an urban planner, has worked on federal and state transportation policy over a decade. Before joining Eno, he directed the National Transportation Policy Project at the Bipartisan […]

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Ariel Ben-Amos

Title: Strategic Planner, Philadelphia Water Department
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Serving as a coordinator and liaison between the Office of Watersheds and SEPTA, the Streets Department, the PPA and other agencies, Ariel Ben-Amos ensures that green stormwater management infrastructure is integrated in transportation infrastructure investments. Previously, Ben-Amos was a planner and analyst for the Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities where he managed the development […]

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