Executive Director
Contact Kelly at kelly [at] thinkstreetsmart.org
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Kelly Rodgers, MLA, LEED-AP, has 20 years of city planning experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors working in sustainable transportation, green infrastructure, and community design. Kelly is a member of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70), is the Vice-Chair of the ITE Transportation and Health Committee, and serves on the advisory board of the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health, and Equity. She also serves on the steering committee of Planning for Health Equity, Advocacy, and Leadership (PHEAL). In addition, Kelly is a PhD candidate in Urban Studies at Portland State University who is researching the use and influence of health indicators in transportation. She has a graduate degree in a landscape architecture from the University of British Columbia and an undergraduate degree in urban and regional planning from Miami University.
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Board of Directors
Many thanks to Denver Igarta, Complete Streets Supervising Planner at the City of Portland, Oregon, who served as an inaugural board member of Streetsmart.
Advisory Board
Brian Campbell, FAICP is an urban and regional planner with 35+ years of experience as a professional planner in Oregon. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the American Planning Association, currently serves on the Board the Oregon chapter of APA, and is a Fellow in the American Institute of Certified Planners. He recently chaired the development of APA's Climate Change Policy Guide.
Ed Christopher began in career in urban transportation in 1979 with the Chicago Area Transportation Study, and since worked for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the Metropolitan Planning Specialists for the Federal Highway Administration’s Resource Center. In 2015 Ed retired from Federal service and has been doing transportation consulting since. Ed is the co-chair of the Transportation Research Board Committee on Transportation and Public Health.
Andrew L. Dannenberg, MD, MPH is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle where he holds faculty appointments in environmental health and in urban planning. His research and teaching focuses on examining the health and equity aspects of community design including land use, transportation, urban planning, architecture, and other issues related to the built environment.
Nico Larco is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon, Director of the Urbanism Next Center, and Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sustainable Cities Initiative, a nationally and internationally awarded, multidisciplinary organization that focuses on sustainability issues as they relate to the built environment. Professor Larco’s research focus includes sustainable urban design and the impacts of emerging technology on cities. The Urbanism Next Center, which he leads, is focused on how technological advances such as autonomous vehicles, new mobility, e-commerce and the sharing economy are changing city form and development.
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Shawn Leight, PE, PTOE, PTP, works to develop transportation solutions that support community values by forging relationships and advancing forward thinking solutions. He is the vice president and a principal owner of CBB Transportation Engineers + Planners, where he manages day-to-day project delivery and business development efforts. Shawn is heavily involved in professional organizations that support the transportation engineering industry, serving as the President of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) in 2017. Shawn obtained a BS degree in Environmental Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a MS degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Andy Likuski, with a background in software development and urban planning, has created urban design and planning software packages for companies such as Sketchup and Calthorpe Analytics. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer for State of Place, a start-up that quantifies the value of urban design. Andy has a master’s in urban and regional planning from Tufts University.
Neil Maizlish, PhD, MPH is an epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience in quantitative research methods, statistics, and health informatics in local and state government, academia, community clinics, unions, and the private sector. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the Public Health Institute, where he focuses on the development of healthy community indicators. Previously he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Davis, where he modeled the health co-benefits of active transport as a greenhouse gas mitigation strategy.
Deborah Salon, PhD is an Associate Professor of Transportation in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University and Associate Director of the TOMNET University Transportation Center. Salon studies transportation in cities with the goal of better understanding of how these systems work, and how policies and smart investments might improve them.
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