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Katherine Watkins

Title: Supervising Engineer, City of Cambridge
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Katherine Watkins is a Supervising Engineer for the City of Cambridge Department of Public Works.  She manages a group of consultants and engineers responsible for designing and constructing street, sidewalk, sewer and storm drain infrastructure projects.  She successfully developed and implemented the City’s 5-Year Street and Sidewalk Plan; prioritizing reconstruction projects with a strong commitment […]

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Rob Viola

Rob Viola

Title: Director, Safety Policy & Research, Division of Transportation Planning & Management, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Rob Viola is Director of Safety Policy & Research at the NYC Department of Transportation. He works within the Research, Implementation and Safety (RIS) unit, which identifies, designs and implements safety programs and street improvement projects on NYC’s streets, develops safety policy and manages crash data for NYCDOT. RIS has also taken the lead in managing […]

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Trent Lethco

Trent Lethco

Title: Principal, Arup
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Trent Lethco is a Principal and leader of Arup’s Integrated Planning Group in New York. He has over 15 years of experience working in New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and the San Francisco Bay Area He has led transportation planning projects both large and small most of which emphasize multimodal transportation solutions […]

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Robert Piccolo

Title: Deputy Commissioner, New York City Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

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Valerie Fletcher

Title: Executive Director, The Institute for Human Centered Design
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Valerie Fletcher has been the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Centered Design since the beginning of 1998. Valerie currently oversees a wide range of projects including a global web-based collection of case studies of universal design in the built environment, demonstration projects for a public school and a community development initiative that pair […]

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Janet Barlow

Title: Principal, Accessible Design for the Blind
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Janet M. Barlow is President of Accessible Design for the Blind.  As a certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist, she has extensive experience teaching street crossing skills to pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired and has worked for the past ten years on research related to accessibility of sidewalks and street crossings to pedestrians with […]

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David Weber

Title: Founder and President, NYC Food Truck Association
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

David Weber is an entrepreneur, small business consultant and advocate. Weber is the founder and President of the NYC Food Truck Association (NYCFTA), which brings together small businesses that own and operate premium food trucks in NYC focused on innovation in hospitality, high quality food, and community development. Through his work at the NYCFTA, Weber […]

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Joanne Massaro

Title: Commissioner, Boston Department of Public Works
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

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Brett Burmeister

Title: Blogger, Food Carts Portland
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Brett Burmeister, a Portland, Oregon native, is the managing editor and co-owner of Food Carts Portland, a resource for street food enthusiasts. He ate at his first food cart in 1991 and has never looked back, having logged roughly 1000 visits to street vendors in Portland and beyond. Brett has been featured by CNN, The […]

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Gabriela Juarez

Title: Planner, Los Angeles Department of City Planning
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Ms. Gabriela Juarez is a land use planner for the Department of City Planning for the City of Los Angeles.  Her current role in city planning deals primarily with processing entitlement requests in the Central City/Downtown, Westlake and Hollywood Community Plan Areas.   In the seven years she has been with the Department, she has also […]

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