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Randy Wade

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

Randy Wade A.I.C.P. has been redesigning NYC streets as the Pedestrian Projects Group Director for the NYC Department of Transportation since 1997. She supervises a multidisciplinary and talented team of planners, engineers and urban designers seeking to improve pedestrian safety, increase accessibility and enhance the environment. She created the first “instant” public space in the […]

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Sam Zimbabwe

Title: Acting Chief of Project Delivery, District DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Sam D. Zimbabwe is the Acting Chief of Project Delivery, a new position in DDOT that brings together planning, traffic engineering, transit, and capital projects. Equipped with a wealth of experience in urban design, bicycle and pedestrian planning and urban ecology, Mr. Zimbabwe guides DDOT’s development of the District’s multi-modal transportation network. Previously, Sam served as […]

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Allen Zerkin

Title: Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration, Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, NYU

Allen J. Zerkin has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Public Administration at NYU’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service since 1988, teaching courses on negotiation and conflict management. Since 1999, he has been conducting a popular one-day workshop on negotiation at the American Planning Association’s annual National Planning Conference. He earned his J.D. […]

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Eric Womeldorff

Title: Senior Associate, Fehr & Peers

Eric Womeldorff, PE, Senior Associate with Fehr & Peers, has spent nearly the past decade focusing on the dynamic between land use and transportation in the often challenging political environs of the City of San Francisco and the greater San Francisco Bay Area region. His areas of expertise include the most advanced, state-of-the-practice transportation analysis […]

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Viktoriya Wise

Viktoriya Wise

Title: Chief of Staff, Sustainable Streets Division, SFMTA

Since 2015 Ms. Wise has served as the Chief of Staff for the Sustainable Streets Division of the SFMTA and is currently serving as its Acting Director. Prior to that, Ms. Wise spent 10 years at the SF Planning Department as Deputy Director of Environmental Planning and Senior Transportation Planner.  She served on the San […]

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Andy Wiley-Schwartz

Andy Wiley-Schwartz

Title: Manager, Bloomberg Associates
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Andy Wiley-Schwartz has nearly 20 years of experience working with cities and communities to envision and redevelop transportation infrastructure into public spaces, and helping transportation agencies change through new policies, programs and plans. Since 2014, Andy has been a consultant at Bloomberg Associates where he works with city governments on transportation and public space issues.  He […]

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Rich Weaver

Title: Director, Planning, Policy and Sustainability, American Public Transportation Association
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Rich Weaver is Director, Planning, Policy and Sustainability, under the Policy Department of the American Public Transportation Association ( APTA) in Washington, D.C. He serves as staff advisor to the APTA State Affairs Committee, the APTA Policy and Planning Committee, and its subcommittees. He oversee the work of APTA Sustainability Committee and APTA Mobility Management […]

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Valerie Watson

Title: Transportation Planning Associate II, Los Angeles DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Valerie Watson works for the City of Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) as an urban designer and transportation planner. Valerie, along with her colleagues in the LADOT Active Transportation Division, works to promote implementation of pedestrian- and bicycle-focused design, develop active transportation plans and policies, establish effective partnerships within the City and with advocacy and community organizations, […]

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Chris Ward

Title: Senior Vice President, AECOM
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Chris Ward leads strategic growth and profitability of AECOM’s Design and Consulting Services group in the New York City Metro area.  Areas of responsibility include transportation, water and wastewater, environment, power, and buildings and places, which encompasses more than 1,600 architects, engineers, scientists and support staff. Prior to joining AECOM, Ward most recently served as executive vice […]

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Mark Van Elsberg

Title: Project Manager, Transportation Services, City of Toronto

Mark Van Elsberg is a Project Manager with Transportation Services at the City of Toronto. He has been involved in the transformation of the City for more than 23 years. First in the private sector, then with the Urban Design team in City Planning and now his energy is focussed on pedestrian projects in the […]

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