Emiko Atherton is the Director of the National Complete Streets Coalition, a program of Smart Growth America. As the Director, Emiko oversees the Coalition’s federal advocacy, communications, research, and technical assistance programs. She has used her expertise in transportation policy, public health, land use, economic development, and legislation to consult with communities across the United States on how to create better transportation networks. Emiko is an international voice on Complete Streets and has spoken to audiences across the country about the value of this approach.

Before joining the Coalition, Emiko served as the Chief of Staff for a King County Councilmember in Washington State. In that role, she worked closely with local and state governments, federal agencies and Congress, and MPO’s on policy development and implementation, coalition building, and transportation planning. This included engagement on Transportation 2040, the Puget Sound Regional Council’s long-term transportation plan; the development of pedestrian and bicycle connections to Sound Transit’s line rail stations in underserved communities; the integration of public health goals into the region’s transportation and land use plan; and working with a diverse range of stakeholder to include equity goals into King County’s strategic plan for transportation. Emiko received her Master’s in Public Administration from Evans School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Washington.

Amanda Baxter has 20 years of experience in the development of complex transportation and infrastructure projects. Ms. Baxter served as VDOT’s Program Manager for the Transform 66: I-66 Inside the Beltway consisting of a suite of multimodal transportation improvements including the implementation of peak-hour Express Lanes. Ms. Baxter was also responsible for the project development of the I-395 Express Lanes that extend to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia as well as the extension of the I-95 Express Lanes to Fredericksburg, Virginia. Amanda has extensive knowledge of environmental policy and engineering principles related to the construction and design of roadways and infrastructure. She maintains a strong knowledge of transportation laws, regulations, policies, and procedures to include federal, state, and local planning and land use regulations. Amanda applies her experience in public policy, local politics, and business practices related to transportation issues to negotiate and lead discussions to reach desired results and has the skill and ability to positively interact with team members, the public, and government officials. She is skilled at maneuvering through complex political situations effectively while demonstrating sensitivity to how people and organizations function.

Maureen Bock is ODOT’s OReGO Program Manager. Maureen has an undergraduate degree in accounting from California State University-Fullerton and her juris doctor from the University of Arkansas. Maureen was formerly the fuels tax manager with ODOT. Maureen left ODOT in 2011 to work with the Oregon Department of Energy, where she led in redesigning its tax credit programs including those affecting transportation. She returned to ODOT in 2014 to become the Road Usage Charge Business Implementation Manager. In that role, she worked with a team of business and IT professionals, as well as three commercial vendors, to design and implement the business processes and systems that support the collection of road usage charges. That program was branded “OReGO.” As the OReGO Program Manager, she continues to lead the OReGO Program through its evolution towards a sustainable funding solution. This includes working on a number of evolutionary projects such as EV opt-in, interoperability pilots with WA and CA, and local area pricing.

Dongho Chang is the City Traffic Engineer for Seattle. He has worked over 25 years in the transportation engineering field focused on improving safety and mobility for all travel modes. Dongho has worked as the Traffic Engineer for City of Everett and Area Engineer for Washington State Department of Transportation where he was responsible for traffic signals group, traffic analysis and channelization review, and traffic safety program. Dongho is active with Institute of Transportation Engineers and NACTO.

Evan Corey Costagliola serves as Seattle Department of Transportation’s New Mobility Program Manager, bringing experience in emerging transportation technology policy, shared mobility planning, shared mobility-transit integration, transit-orientation strategies, TDM, and Complete Streets design and policy. Evan provides a unique and holistic perspective to new mobility and its relationship to mobility, access, and right-of-way allocation.

Prior to his time at Seattle DOT, Evan was a Senior Associate at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates working on street design, transit access, and shared mobility projects throughout North America. He graduated from University of California at Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and received his Master of Planning degree from the University of Southern California.

Benjamin de la Peña serves as the Seattle Department of Transportation’s Chief of Strategy and Innovation. Under his guidance, SDOT produced Seattle’s New Mobility Playbook.

Benjie thinks a lot about cities, systems, and design. He’s worked on urban issues that cover public life, engagement, technology, sustainable transportation, and informal systems. He’s been published in Citylab, Next City, FutureEverything, and TED City 2.0. He’s spoken in national and international conferences including Bloomberg and Atlantic’s Citylab, Smart City Expo, Designing Cities, and Transforming Transportation. He spent nearly a decade in philanthropy supporting pioneering work such as Walk Score, Transit Score, Digital Matatus, CityCamp, TransportationCamp, the BRT Standard, the Informal City Dialogues, Code for America, and Gehl Institute.

Benjie is local to Seattle, Miami, New York, Baltimore, D.C., Boston, and Metro Manila. He has an MA in Urban Planning from Harvard University and BA in Communication (Journalism) from the University of the Philippines.

Naomi Doerner is a Transportation Equity Strategist with the Seattle Department of Transportation. Naomi is a dedicated urban planning professional with a passion and talent for engaging communities and growing coalitions. She specializes in sustainable and active transportation planning and advocacy, building support for walking, bicycling, and transit use. She has demonstrated leadership experience blending urban planning, advocacy, and innovative engagement strategies and successfully translates these into positive social change, a proud hallmark of her career.

She holds a Master of Urban Planning from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in New York, NY and a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs from Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, GA. Ms. Doerner is the co-founder of Velo City, a nonprofit urban planning education initiative that introduces young people to urban planning and design via bicycling.

Jenny A. Durkan is the 56th Mayor of Seattle and the first woman to lead the City in nearly a century.

She entered office on November 28, 2017, with the challenge of making Seattle affordable and inclusive for all. She is focused on the housing affordability crisis, helping those experiencing homelessness, providing free college tuition to Seattle’s high school graduates, and pushing reforms and restoring trust in the police department – while also delivering on basic city services. She also is committed to ensuring Seattle continues to lead the innovative economy and create new models for ensuring more security for workers.

Prior to becoming Mayor, Durkan was a civic leader and nationally-recognized attorney. From 2009 to 2014, she served as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington, becoming the first openly gay U.S. Attorney in our country’s history.

As U.S. Attorney, Durkan was the chief federal law enforcement officer in Western Washington and coordinated various federal investigative agencies. In addition, Durkan was a leader in recognizing the threat cyber criminals posed to privacy, the economy and security. She served for two years on the U.S. Attorney General’s original Advisory Committee and chaired the advisory Subcommittee on Cybercrime and Intellectual Property Enforcement throughout her term. Durkan testified before Congress on cyber issues for the Department of Justice and is known for her national role in fighting cybercrime, and for increasing the federal capabilities to meet cyber-based national security and terrorism threats. Durkan faced the reality of a terrorist threat when authorities discovered a plot to attack a military recruiting office in Seattle.

During her tenure, Durkan championed more proactive enforcement efforts, leading “hot spot” initiatives in areas of persistent crime and by targeting gun crimes. Durkan also formed a civil rights unit in the U.S. Attorney’s office that increased enforcement of civil rights laws, including housing and job discrimination protections and the rights of returning veterans. Working with civil rights groups and community leaders, she launched a civil rights investigation of the Seattle Police Department’s use of force and treatment of minority communities. The investigation led to a landmark consent decree that requires broad reforms and ongoing monitoring by the federal court.

Fearghal King was the Manager of Research and Analysis with the Staff Secretariat of the Mobility Pricing Independent Commission (MPIC) which was assembled by the Mayor’s Council on Regional Transportation and the TransLink Board of Directors for the region of Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from June 2017 to May 2018. In this role, Fearghal led a research team that was responsible for analyzing and identifying baseline congestion conditions as well as forecasting future conditions; assisting in the development of an evaluation framework; developing and modelling several decongestion charging scenarios; and guiding the Commission through the evaluation of these scenarios, which helped shape their recommendations. Fearghal has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Economics, as well as a PhD in Spatial Planning, from UCD Dublin, Ireland. He has lived in Vancouver for the past 6 years, and has recently transitioned back to TransLink where he is working on the next steps for mobility pricing.

Mollie Pelon McArdle is the Technology and City Transportation Program Manager at NACTO. She leads NACTO’s work on autonomous vehicle & technology policies in cities, including NACTO’s Blueprint for Autonomous Urbanism and the SharedStreets data sharing project. Mollie also leads NACTO’s policy work on congestion pricing.

Previously, Mollie was a transportation planner at Fehr & Peers. Prior to that she worked on transportation research for the Bay Area’s Metropolitan Transportation Commission, as well as the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development in Chicago, and the Congress for the New Urbanism. Mollie completed a Master of Science in Sustainable Urban Development at the University of Oxford, and received her BA in Geography from DePaul University.

Paul Moore is an expert in managing major urban design, land use, and transportation planning and engineering projects.

Paul has 25 years of experience in developing major transportation and transit planning projects, small area planning and redevelopment studies, and livable transportation solutions. Paul specializes in working with communities that want to use transportation spending as a tool to make broad community improvements.

Throughout his career, Paul has led engaging and meaningful public involvement processes as an integral part of his technical work. He builds strong relationships with local leaders who have become champions for positive change in their communities. Paul has managed many ground-breaking projects including major, citywide transportation plans for Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Louisville, and Omaha, among many others.

Francesca Napolitan serves as the Curb Access Manager for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s newly formed Curb Management Group which is tasked with developing a comprehensive curb management strategy for the agency. She has also worked on the creation of a permit program and legislation for Private Transit Vehicles and managed the city’s Commuter Shuttle Permit Program.

Prior to her time with the SFMTA she was a Senior Associate at Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates working transportation demand management, parking policy, and street design. Francesca received her Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley and her Master of City Planning degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Alex Pazuchanics serves as the Assistant Director of the City of Pittsburgh’s new Department of Mobility and Infrastructure. He managed Pittsburgh’s response to the USDOT Smart City Challenge, and now leads transportation planning, right-of-way management, and innovative mobility implementation in the City. Alex has testified before Congress and presented at South by Southwest on Smart City policy, and is a member of the PennDOT Autonomous Vehicle Policy Task Force. A graduate of The George Washington University and Carnegie Mellon University, Alex previously served as the Mayor’s Policy Advisor and has worked in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Pittsburgh City Council.

Benito O. Perez is a Curbside Management & Operations Planner with the District Department of Transportation. In this capacity, he works on creating, accessing, analyzing, visualizing, disseminating, and working with stakeholders to leverage data for policy development, resource allocation, and operations management of the District’s curbside. Prior to DDOT, Mr. Pérez was a Transportation Planner/Engineer with the Hampton Roads Transportation Planning Organization, involved with long-range transportation planning, active transportation, passenger rail, and intersectoral planning (Transportation and Land Use/Housing/Climate Change). Mr. Pérez earned his Masters of Arts in Urban Planning and Masters of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Florida in 2009.

Randall Rutsch, AICP, MPA, is a Senior Transportation Planner for the City of Boulder focusing on long range and regional planning, transportation finance and advance mobility. Work at the city includes managing four updates of the award-winning Transportation Master Plan; eight cycles of TIP funding applications securing more than 82 million dollars in federal funding; coordinating the Transportation Metrics program including the biannual Transportation Report on Progress; and participating in numerous planning efforts including the Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan, area plans such as the Boulder Transit Village Area Plan and regional studies including the US 36 EIS. Prior to working for the city, he was regional planner for the Denver Regional Council of Governments leading the development of the Metro Vision 2020 regional plan and has experience as a planner and consultant in GIS, environmental and land use planning at the city and county level.

Janna Smith is the Transportation Technology Project Manager at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT). Her work includes leading department-wide efforts around data sharing, working with other departments on Smart City projects, and implementing LADOT’s Transportation Technology Strategy through internal capacity-building, policy development, and delivering pilot projects around connected infrastructure, data analysis, and autonomous vehicles. Prior to working at LADOT, Janna worked at the City of Burbank and at LA Metro. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master of Planning, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing and Broadcast Journalism.

Rodney Stiles is the Assistant Commissioner for Data & Technology at the Taxi & Limousine Commission, the City agency responsible for licensing and regulating taxis and other for-hire services in New York City. His team researches impacts of policies through big data analysis, liaises with technology companies who want to work in the for-hire space, and develops regulations and policies for the use of technology. Previously, he was a demographic analyst at the Department of City Planning, responsible for creating long-range population projections.

Ben Stone is the Director of Arts & Culture at Smart Growth America and its program Transportation for America. Ben leads the organization’s broad efforts to help communities across the country better integrate arts, culture, and creative placemaking into neighborhood revitalization, equitable development, and transportation planning efforts. Ben holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Tufts University; and a Master in City Planning from MIT, where he focused on land use planning, urban design, and the intersection of the arts and community development. Prior to joining SGA, Ben served as Executive Director of Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc., where he employed an arts-based revitalization and placemaking strategy to guide development in the state-designated Arts District in Baltimore. Under Ben’s leadership, Station North became a national model for creative placemaking and equitable development through the arts and innovative collaboration. Ben has also served as an architectural designer/planner for the Baltimore Development Corporation, working on revitalization projects in Baltimore’s Middle Branch, Central Business District, and Station North. As a frequent conference speaker and guest lecturer and critic, Ben has advised students, practitioners, and artists on creative placemaking and community-engaged art. Ben has been recognized as a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Forum for Young Cultural Innovators (2014), a Baltimore Business Journal 40 under 40 Honoree (2014), and a Next City Vanguard (2012).

Kevin Webb is the Founder and Director of SharedStreets. SharedStreets is a project of NACTO and the Open Transport Partnership, a non-for-profit organization that builds tools for public-private collaboration around transport data. Blending technology and policy, they’re building software, digital infrastructure, and governance models to support new ways of managing and sharing data.

Prior to SharedStreets, Kevin served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Sidewalk Labs. He joined Sidewalk by way of Conveyal, a transportation technology firm. As a principal at Conveyal Kevin led projects related to open source software and open data strategy for the transportation sector. Conveyal led the development of several key software platforms including OpenTripPlanner, a widely used multimodal journey planner, and Transport Analyst, an accessibility analysis tool co-created by the World Bank and used by transport planners and researchers around the world.

Prior to Conveyal, he worked for the non-profit OpenPlans and the Sunlight Foundation. Although he’s spent much of his professional life working in technology sector, Kevin studied geography and urban planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.