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NACTO19, Registrant List, As of 09.03.19.Xlsx Designing Cities 2019 Attendee List as of 09.04.19 First Name Last Name Job Title Organization Majed Abdulsamad Program Associate NACTO-GDCI Sandra Abelaye Planner Honolulu Department of Transportation Services Rabi Abonour Research Associate NRDC Tobiah Abramson Project Lead Toronto Transportation Services Zak Accuardi Technical advisor, transportation NRDC Christine Acosta Board Member Tampa Bay Mobility Alliance Greg Adelberg Urban Designer HDR Ruchika Aggarwal Project Engineer City of Palo Alto Rit Aggarwala Head of Urban Systems Sidewalk Labs Gloria Aguessy Transportation & Traffic Analyst FNX-INNOV Eduardo Aguilar Valdez City Council City of San Pedro Michael Ahillen Project Manager Fitzgerald & Halliday Kelly Akasaki Traffic Engineer Honolulu Department of Transportation Services Dayo Akinyemi Deputy Director City of Detroit Laurie Alemian-Derian Director of Finance & Administration NACTO Jeffrey Alexis Principal Civil Engineer City of Boston Joseph Al-hajeri Engineering Associate City of Austin Amanda Alves Traffic Engineering Fortaleza City Hall Michael Amabile Senior Planner Arup Paloma Amayo-Ryan Transportation Supervisor Austin Transportation Department Katy Aminian Project Manager Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation Shamez Amlani Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market Gizachew Andargeh Transportation Planner District DOT M'Milo Aongya Planning and research coordinator BIXI-Montreal Rob Armstrong Trails & Transportation Program Manager Philadelphia Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability Eric Asboe Transportation Administrative Manager Chattanooga DOT Rachael Ashton Senior Planner Victoria DOT Alex Atchison Senior Engineer Parametrix Emiko Atherton Director National Complete Streets Coalition Janet Attarian SmithGroup Viola Augustin GLX Project Liaison City of Somerville Eduarda Aun Program Associate NACTO-GDCI Angela Ayers Michigan Mobility Strategy Ford Smart Mobility Joni Baboci City of Tirana, Albania Liz Babson Director, Department of Transportation Charlotte DOT William Bacon Policy and Financial Analyst Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission John Bailey Climate Advisor NRDC Linda Bailey Vision Zero Director District DOT Justin Bak Toronto Transportation Services Chris Balerna Senior Project Manager Kleinfelder Yvonne Bambrick Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market Steven Bannasch Engineering Services Coordinator City of Detroit Jonathan Barfoot Business Development - Solutions Architect Verizon Emily Barkdoll City Strategist NRDC Joseph Barr Director of Traffic, Parking, and Transportation City of Cambridge Saikat Basak Project Manager Toronto Transportation Services Becky Bavinger Public Health Department Bloomberg Philanthropies Daniel Beard Transportation Planner WSP Cary Bearn Chief Bicycle Officer Atlanta City Planning Department Matthew Beaulieu Transportation Operations Engineering & Design Manager Seattle DOT Cameron Beck Associate Engineer SFMTA Craig Beck Director of Public Works Long Beach Public Works Will Becker Transportation Planner Salt Lake City Transportation Division Antoine Belaieff Sponsor, Fare Integration Metrolinx Olga Beltsar Civil Engineer III City of Norfolk Andy Bemis Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Coordinator Tucson DOT Lubka Benak Director of Livable Streets Chicago DOT Dana Benjamin Traffic Engineer City of Cambridge Keith Benjamin Director, Department of Traffic and Transportation Charleston Department of Traffic and Transportation Amy Bennett Assistant Planner City of Wauwatosa Mikey Bennington Analyst, Research and Policy Region of Peel Zabe Bent Director of Design NACTO Sasha Berger Program Manager NACTO Will Bernstein Climate Advisor, Pittsburgh NRDC Pierre Berté Business development in Innovation Colas Canada Jennifer Besenski Business Development Director, Canada Cubic Transportation Systems Ghulam Bham Senior Traffic Engineer City of Boston Sindhu Bharadwaj Policy Associate NACTO John Biesak Business Dev Associate SADA Systems Ashley Biggins Sr. Civil Engineer City of Boston Ashley Biggins Sr. Civil Engineer City of Boston Saul Billingsley Executive Director FIA Foundation Ben Bird Mobility Strategist Ford Motor Company Peter Bird Active Transportation Planner City of Nashville Edward Birnbaum Office of the Mayor, Director of Important Things City of Toronto Matthew Blackett Publisher Spacing Magazine Oni Blair Executive Director LINK Houston Stéphane Blais Engineer - Streetscaping Projects and Programs Ville de Montreal Joe Blankenship Senior Transportation Planner City of Boston Erin Blay Supervisor, Service Design & Projects Halifax Regional Municipality Juan Pablo Bocarejo Secretary Bogota Secretary of Mobility Stephanie Bohdanow Lead, Land Use Sector Development, Green Municipal Fund Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Eric Bollich Division Manager, Transportation Engineering Austin Transportation Department Beaver Boonsook Assistant Transportation Engineer Oakland DOT Maria Borisova Director of Data Engineering City of Boston Amica Bose Supervising Engineer Austin Transportation Department Brendan Boyle Economic Development & Culture City of Toronto David Bragdon Executive Director TransitCenter Evan Brazeau Planning & Operations Manager Toronto Transportation Services Scott Bricker Executive Director Bike Pittsburgh Russell Brooks Founder Scale Consulting Tanya Brooks Assistant Director City of Fort Worth Transportation & Public Works Barrington Brown Public Works Manager, Sr. Atlanta DPW Brytanee Brown Transportation Planner Oakland DOT Catherine Brown VP, Marketing & Corporate Social Responsibility Aviva Canada Charles Brown Senior Researcher Voorhees Transportation Center, Rutgers University Chisara Brown Deputy Director City of Detroit Heather Brown Manager - Customer Communications Toronto Transit Commission Lily Brown Transportation Planner Oakland DOT Shannon Brown Shared Mobility Project Coordinator Austin Transportation Department Wesley Brown Planning and Capital Projects Central Atlanta Progress Christopher Browne Chief Communications Officer NYC DOT Roger Browne Acting Director, Traffic Management Section City of Toronto Jeannette Brugger Bicycle & Pedestrian Coordinator Philadelphia Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems Jessica Brunson Senior Transportation Planner San Antonio Transportation & Capital Improvements Steve Buckley National Director - Planning & Environment WSP Amy Buitenhuis Senior Strategic Policy Consultant, Resilience Office City of Toronto Eric Burkman Director of Transit Priority MBTA Gayle Bursey Director, Healthy Public Policy City of Toronto Tamika Butler Director of Equity & Inclusion and Director of California Planning Toole Design Yadira Cabrera Event Coordinator NACTO Eric Alan Caldwell Member, Executive Committee Ville de Montreal Jodi Callan Project Manager Toronto Transportation Services Lina Camacho Interim City Transportation Engineer City of West Palm Beach Megan Campbell Principal Planner City of Houston Catherine Campbell Toronto Transportation Services Mark Candland Engineering Technician City of Pleasanton Naz Capano Manager, Transportation Policy & Innovation Toronto Transportation Services Kevin Carder City Planner City of Omaha Planning Department Geoff Carleton Sr. Principal Traffic Engineers, Inc. Michael Carroll Deputy Managing Director Philadelphia Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability Shelley Carroll Councillor Ward 17 - Don Valley North Kris Carter Co-Chair, Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics City of Boston Jena Carver Transportation Engineer Salt Lake City Transportation Division Najah Casimir Communications Manager City of Cambridge Ellie Casson Head of Local Policy Waymo Sebastian Castellanos Research Manager NUMO Romina Castillo Community Planner MUSE Community + Design Gorka Castrillo International Market Development ZICLA Rebecca Caughey Technical Analyst Region of Peel Elise Cécyre Engineer Ville de Montreal Ankita Chachra Senior Program Manager NACTO-GDCI Jonathan Chai Project Manager / Senior Transportation Engineer HDR Sreyoshi Chakraborty Senior Planner Des Moines Area MPO Marlene Chamandy Manager, Government Relations Ford of Canada Anna Chamberlin Neighborhood Planning Manager District DOT Tosh Chambers Policy Analyst Pittsburgh Department of Mobility and Infrastructure Boris Chan CEO Roundtrip.ai Iris Chan Planning Analyst Metrolinx Jenn Chan Planner SFMTA Tien-Tien ("Tim Tim") Chan TDM Program Manager Austin Transportation Department Fiona Chapman Municipal Licensing and Standards City of Toronto Nancy Chater Toronto Parks, Forestry & Recreation Brad Chebott Director of Operations and Construction, Ontario Astral - Bell Media Elizabeth Chen Assistant Engineer SFMTA Yifan Chen Manager, Robotics & Mobility Research Ford Ran Chen Toronto City Planning Chester Cheng Project Manager Town of Tewksbury Phillip Cherry Engineer | Planner WSP Victoria Chong Transportation Planner/Outreach Coordinator SFMTA Tiffany Chu Co-Founder Remix Eric Chu Toronto Transit Commission Craig Chung Traffic Engineer Honolulu Department of Transportation Services Catherine Ciarlo Active Transportation + Safety Division Manager Portland Bureau of Transportation Amar Cid Senior Transportation Planner Caltrans Vince Cifani Founder Joyride Charlie Clark Mayor City of Saskatoon Chris Clark Chief Planner Honolulu Department of Transportation Services Bruce Clayton Manager, Traffic Operations Toronto Transportation Services Eulois Cleckley Executive Director Denver DPW Regina Clewlow CEO & Co-Founder Populus Linda Cogswell Associate Transportation
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