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Jaime de la Vega

Title: General Manager, Los Angeles DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Mr. de la Vega is responsible for leading the department as well as day-to-day operations. LADOT is a multifaceted transportation organization with over 1,700 employees and an annual budget of US$493 million (FY 2012-2013). LADOT enforces state and local parking laws; provides traffic control services to support public safety agencies and special events; designs, operates, and maintains the most advanced traffic […]

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Jane Martin

Title: Owner, Shift Design Studio and Director, Plant*SF
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Jane Martin AIA/ASLA/LEED AP is principal of Shift Design Studio, a San Francisco certified green business specializing in building and landscape design. She is an architect and artist whose work embraces all scales from urban planning to sculpture and performance. She has been named by SFMOMA as one of the Bay Area’s leading experimental designers. […]

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Mike Lydon

Title: Principal, The Streets Plans Collaborative
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Mike Lydon is a founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative. Before launching the firm in 2009, Lydon worked for Duany Plater-Zyberk and Company (DPZ), an international leader in the practice of smart growth planning, design, and research techniques. As a planner, writer, and advocate, Mike’s work has appeared in or been featured by NPR, […]

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Ed Janoff

Title: Public Spaces Operations Manager, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Since arriving in 2008, Ed Janoff’s primary responsibility at NYC DOT has been to oversee management and operation of the agency’s  growing inventory of public plazas – currently numbering 26 sites – primarily through public-private partnership agreements with local nonprofit organizations. He has also played a significant role in developing a range of other public […]

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Paul Chasan

Title: Parklet Project Manager, City of San Francisco, Pavement to Parks Program
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Paul manages the Parklet program at the San Francisco Planning Department and is the lead urban designer for the Department’s Green Connections project—a citywide green street plan currently underway that seeks to improve access to open space by building sustainable corridors that facilitate walking and biking for people of all ages, reduce stormwater runoff, calm […]

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Jessica Wurwarg

Title: Chief of Staff, External Affairs, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Jessica Wurwarg has a background in both urban development and food. Currently she is the Chief of Staff of External Affairs at NYC’s Department of Transportation and manages the Summer Streets Program. She is an Adjunct Instructor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and at the New School University’s Food Studies Program, teaching the courses on […]

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Ricardo Olea

Title: City Traffic Engineer, San Francisco MTA
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

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Luann Hamilton

Luann Hamilton

Title: Deputy Commissioner, Chicago DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Luann Hamilton has worked at the Chicago Department of Transportation and its predecessor agency, the Department of Public Works, for more than 31 years.  Since 2005, Luann has served as the Deputy Commissioner of the CDOT Division of Project Development.  She is responsible for Transportation Planning and Programming, Traffic Design, Livable Streets Implementation, Citywide Services […]

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Raisa Saratovksy

Title: Urban Designer, Pedestrian Projects Group, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

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Sameeh Barkho

Title: Chieft of Highway Design & Construction, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Sameeh S. Barkho has been with NYC DOT since 1989, and for the last seven years, has been the Chief of Highway Design & Construction. He began his tenure with the agency in the Bureau of Bridges, moved to Geometric Design and currently manages more than 70 employees in his division.  His team is instrumental […]

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