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Polly Trottenberg

Polly Trottenberg

Title: Commissioner, NYC DOT
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities Conference

Polly Trottenberg was sworn in as Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation on January 27, 2014. Responsible for one of the largest portfolios of any municipal agency, DOT provides for the safe, efficient and sustainable movement of people and goods throughout the five boroughs. With an annual operating […]

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Saravana Suthanthira

Title: Senior Transportation Planner, Alameda CTC

Saravana Suthanthira, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner with Alameda CTC, has over fifteen years of transportation planning and engineering experience. Her work focuses on congestion management, particularly performance measurement using big data. She recently led and completed a comprehensive performance evaluation effort of the I-680 Express Lane, the first Express Lane in the Bay Area, to […]

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Hermanus Steyn

Title: Principal Engineer, Kittelson & Associates

Hermanus has experience in a variety of transportation studies for all types of roadways—from local streets to freeways—with a particular focus on conceptual and detailed geometric design. On such projects, Hermanus considers impacts to natural resources, constructability, phased implementation opportunities, traffic control, and cost estimating in establishing the appropriate improvements. He has developed master plans […]

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Richard Steinberg

Title: CEO, DriveNow USA

Richard Steinberg is CEO of DriveNow (USA), a flexible, premium car sharing program from BMW introduced to the U.S. market in San Francisco, exclusively featuring BMW ActiveE electric vehicles. DriveNow is designed to be as convenient as having your own car. Customers can take a drive on their own terms with more flexibility than traditional […]

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Tom Sorrentino

Title: Senior Project Manager, Charlotte Department of Transportation

Tom Sorrentino is a Senior Project Manager with the Charlotte Department of Transportation (CDOT), where he manages and oversees the planning, design and implementation of a wide variety of new and retrofit “complete streets” projects. He was a key participant in the development of the city’s first Transportation Action Plan (TAP) and Urban Street Design […]

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Seth Solomonow

Seth Solomonow

Title: Manager, Bloomberg Associates

Seth Solomonow works in the Bloomberg Associates transportation practice, helping cities develop winning communications strategies around transformative projects. Seth was the chief media strategist for the New York City Department of Transportation department under Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan and Mayor Bloomberg and during a period of unprecedented change, helping message the addition of 450 miles of […]

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Lacy Shelby

Title: Director of Resiliency Planning and Management, New York City Department of Transportation
NACTO Title: Speaker, Designing Cities conference

Lacy Shelby, Director of Resiliency Planning and Management, New York City Department of Transportation, has spent her career adapting aging infrastructure to the demands of a rapidly changing climate. In her former role as Director of Green Infrastructure, Shelby was a major force in the City’s plans for the reconstruction of critical street infrastructure following […]

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Susan Shaheen

Title: Co-director, Transportation Sustainability Research Center, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley

Susan Shaheen is a co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also adjunct professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. She was the first Honda Distinguished Scholar in Transportation at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis, from 2000 to […]

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Stefanie Seskin

Stefanie Seskin

Title: Director of Policy and Practice

As Director of Policy and Practice, Stefanie shapes NACTO’s strategy to change the paradigm for city transportation policy and street design across North America. She provides strategic direction for NACTO’s technical design portfolio and guides major policy initiatives. She manages a multidisciplinary team of policy, design, and communications staff working to serve, empower, and partner […]

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Nicole Schneider

Title: Executive Director, Walk San Francisco

Nicole leads Walk San Francisco’s policy and programmatic work, strategic communications, administration and operations. Nicole came to Walk San Francisco in 2013 with a background in active transportation, urban planning, and public health. As a consultant, Nicole helped develop climate change adaptation plans for the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Program on Health, Equity […]

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