PANEL SESSIONS

Tuesday, April 3rd - Wednesday, April 4th

Key themes and strategies in design, planning, and implementation will be explored at Intersections: Creating Culturally Complete Streets. The panel sessions will draw from the diverse experiences and expertise from Complete Streets pioneers with backgrounds ranging from community organizing activists, engineers, artists, community health practitioners, and public sector leaders. Each session will bring a combination of unique perspectives that range in discipline, sector, and geography with the goal of sharing knowledge, addressing challenges, and gaining momentum to better invest in integrated solutions that create streets that are not only safe for everyone, but also better reflect the unique character of their communities.

Photo courtesy of Metro DOT Pilot Collaborative (Michael Briggs and Jonathan Cleghon)

A New Approach to Complete Streets with AARP Livable Communities and Better Block

Bill Armbruster, AARP

Andrew Howard, Team Better Block

Wednesday, April 4 (10:15am - 11:45am)

Crossing the Street: Building DC's Inclusive Future through Creative Placemaking

Anna Muessig, Gehl

Philippa Hughes, Pink Line Project

Brandon Hill, No Kings Collective

Tuesday, April 3 (1:45pm - 3:15pm)

Glass Street: Using Art and Placemaking to Raise up a Neighborhood

Bert Kuyrkendall, Gresham Smith and Partners

Blythe Bailey, Chattanooga Department of Transportation

Nicole Lewis, Glass House Collective

Josiah Golson, Glass House Collective

Greg Heath, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Wednesday, April 4 (1:45pm - 3:15pm)

Changing our City by Completing the Street: Legislating from the Sidewalk Up

Benjamin Groff, Tidemore Group
Tafadzwa Gwitira, Opportunity Coalition
Tiffany Davis, Johns Hopkins University Center for Government Excellence
Liz Cornish, Bikemore
Dr. Celeste Chavis, Morgan State University
Ryan Dorsey, Baltimore City Council
Kristen Jeffers, The Black Urbanist
LaKeisha Henderson, Bike & Brunch Tours

Wednesday, April 4 (1:45pm - 3:15pm)

Transportation and Health: Making Cross-sector collaboration work

Kate Riordan, Health by Design
Mike Sewell, Gresham, Smith and Partners
Carol Kachadoorian, Toole Design Group

Tuesday, April 3 (10:15am - 11:45am)

Statewide and Local Community Design Interventions to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Public Health

Margo Younger, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dan French, New York State Department of Health
Sarah Taylor Watts, Iowa Department of Health
Ernie Bradley, Florida Department of Health

Jennifer Church, Kansas Department of Health and Environment

Danielle Schaeffner, Hawaii State Department Of Health

Mike Thompson, Commissioner's Fellow (Tennessee Department of Health)

Tuesday, April 3 (3:45pm - 5:15pm)

Creating a multimodal DOT

Marshall Elizer, Washington Department of Transportation

Jeff Riegner, Whitman, Requardt & Associates, LLP

Doug Wiersig, City of Fort Worth, TX

Michele Wynn, City of Atlanta

Wednesday, April 4 (3:45pm - 5:15pm)

Painting a Different Picture for Public Health

Marisa Jones, Safe Routes to School National Partnership
Stephanie McCullough, Mayor Barry's Office of Neighborhoods and Community Engagement

Mike Bulger, Common Ground Health

Jen DeMelo, KaBOOM!

Tuesday, April 3 (1:45pm - 3:15pm)

Holistic Community-Centered Advocacy

Nedra Deadwyler, Civil Bikes
Zahra Alabanza, Red, Bike, and Green and the Untokening
Jeffrey Nolish, Mobility Advocate, Detroit, MI
Marian Liou, We Love BuHi
Timberley Jones, Spokes Digital Media

Tuesday, April 3 (10:15 am - 11:45am)

Evaluating Transportation Equity - Project Selection Criteria and Performance Measures

Jesse Cohn, Fehr & Peers DC
Bridget Obikoya, Arlington County
Jamie Chriqui, University of Illinois at Chicago
Zan Gibbs, Portland Bureau of Transportation

Wednesday, April 4 (10:15am - 11:45am)

The Collaborative Complete Streets Implementation Approach

Denise Bottcher, AARP Louisiana

Rachel DiResto, Center for Planning Excellence
Lynn Maloney-Mujica, ELOS Environmental, LLC
Jeanne George, AARP Louisiana
Donna Collins-Lewis, Councilwoman District 6

Tuesday, April 3 (10:15am - 11:45am)

Speeding and the 85th Percentile

Rock Miller, Stantec
John Lower, Iteris
Leah Shahum, Vision Zero Network

Tuesday, April 3 (1:45pm - 3:15pm)

Engaging People, Art and Public Space via Tactical Urbanism

Jonathan Flynt, Looney Ricks Kiss
Daniel Ashworth, Alta Planning + Design
Catherine Pena, Collabortory
Dane Forlines, Memphis Medical District Collaborative