Jan 24, 2020
Anna Ziolecki is Adjunct Professor and Director of Partners for Action at the University of Waterloo, an applied research network of collaborators, from academia, government, the private sector and non-government organizations, who are committed to advancing flood resiliency in a changing climate. Anna has conducted interdisciplinary research on many contemporary policy issues, including on property…
Jan 24, 2020
Jason Thistlethwaite is an Associate Professor in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) and Associate Director for Partners for Action (P4A). His research evaluates climate change risk management strategies designed to reduce economic vulnerability. His current research…
Jan 23, 2020
George P.R. Benson is a resilience thinker and practitioner working on climate displacement, urban planning, and economic resilience. He has worked in Canada, the Philippines, and Bangladesh. He is a Co-founder of the Climate Migrants and Refugees Project, and has sat on the British Columbian planning association’s Climate Action Task Force, the Canadian planning association’s…
Jan 23, 2020
Anna is a community planning and development consultant in Vancouver working to facilitate collaborative processes of planning, policy and design in communities across the province. After completing her Masters of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, Anna co-founded the Climate Migrants and Refugees Project with a mission to develop resources for…
Jan 17, 2020
Eve joined NewCities in 2019 as Communications and Media Relations Manager. She worked in Toronto, London, Paris and Brittany for non-profit organizations, governmental entities and large corporations in the transportation, health and technology sectors. She is passionate about new trends and gender issues together with creating great content for NewCities’ online and offline communities. Reach…
Nov 25, 2019
The Hon Mark Bailey, MP is the Minister for Transport and Main Roads in the Australian state of Queensland, home to more than five million people. Mr Bailey oversees one of Australia’s largest state-controlled road networks (over 33,000kms), along with 19 state-owned ports and Queensland’s urban and freight rail network. Maintaining and improving Queensland’s vast…
Nov 25, 2019
Andrea San Gil is an Environmental Engineer, with a Masters in Sustainability, Planning and Environmental Policy. She is passionate about reducing social vulnerability and increasing quality of life through city design and sustainable solutions. She founded the Center for Urban Sustainability in Costa Rica (CPSU) in 2014 and directed it until 2018. She has worked…
Nov 25, 2019
Naomi Doerner is a transportation planner and equity strategist with over a decade of experience building community capacity and coalitions for inclusive transportation planning processes, projects, and policies within the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. As the first-ever Transportation Equity Program Manager at the Seattle Department of Transportation, she leads a team and advises on…
Nov 25, 2019
Sam Zimbabwe has been Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) since January 2019. He came to SDOT from Washington, DC, where he served in senior management positions at the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), first as the Associate Director for Policy, Planning & Sustainability, and then as DDOT’s first Chief Project Delivery Officer,…
Nov 22, 2019
Mary Mwangi is the Flone Initiative’s Programs Manager; she has been doing program management at Flone Initiative since 2016. During this time, the organization has grown in size, scope and capacity. She has led five research projects that have significantly added to the knowledge base of gender and mobility issues in Kenya. Mary is a…
Nov 21, 2019
Malcolm Cain is currently the director of the newly-created Office of Inclusion at New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission. The City Council and the TLC created the Office of Inclusion to examine, address, and end discriminatory service refusals in New York City. Malcolm has worked for the TLC since 2015, most recently as the…
Nov 21, 2019
Hana Creger, Environmental Equity Program Manager, works on the development and implementation of policies leading to clean transportation and mobility investments that will benefit low-income communities of color. She was the lead author of the Mobility Equity Framework, a tool that can be used to maximize equity outcomes and community engagement in transportation planning and…