Kate is Senior Transportation Associate at Stantec. An urban planner, policy-maker, and creative problem-solver, Kate has almost 20 years of transportation policy experience working for and with North American cities, including New York City. Kate has worked extensively developing guidance on urban bikeway design, shared micromobility, agency structure, managing emerging technologies and transportation equity. Under Mayor Bloomberg and Commissioner Sadik-Khan, Kate worked at the New York City Department of Transportation where she designed and implemented Citi Bike, the nation’s largest and most heavily used bike share program. Also at NYCDOT, under Commissioner Trottenberg, Kate was a lead author of New York City’s Vision Zero Action Plan, creating the policy framework to help bring traffic deaths in New York City to their lowest recorded levels.

Luba is Principal and Head of Via’s Strategy team, helping municipalities and transit authorities across the world improve their public transit systems to be more efficient, equitable, and sustainable. Prior to her role at Via, she was Assistant Director at the NYC Department of City Planning.

Mary Kimball is an urban planner with Arcadis with a focus on community resilience planning and climate adaptation. As the Urban and Community Resilience Team Leader she leads a team that works on adaptation planning, climate risk assessment, and implementation of resiliency project across the country, including the New York City metro area, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and the Bay Area. She has over a decade of experience in working on resilience planning in the New York City on numerous complex, interdisciplinary planning projects at multiple scales, including large state or regional policy initiatives and coastal resilience master plans.

Neg Lakew is Senior Advisor to the Deputy Mayor of Operations. At the Office of the Mayor, he works closely with New York City infrastructure related to climate resiliency and environmental protection, with a key focus on planning, design, budgeting and policy. Neg leads by providing guidance and insight from City Hall for over $5.3 B in coastal flood protection projects while assisting and advocating for environmental protection and quality of life for all New Yorkers.

Tiffany-Ann Taylor is the Vice President for Transportation at the Regional Plan Association (RPA). She previously worked at DOT and EDC where she led transformative passenger transportation projects, freight policy, and truck safety and compliance initiatives. Tiffany worked for the Suffolk County Department of Economic Development & Planning where her projects centered on passenger transportation, open space, and economic development. She holds a B.A in Government from The College of William & Mary and a M.S in City & Regional Planning from Pratt Institute.