Category Archives: People

Alexa Mills is the Director of Media Projects at the MIT Community Innovators Lab. She curates the organization’s blog, CoLab Radio. She has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and a masters degree in City Planning. The combination of those two degrees generally sum up her abilities.

Ronald is a graduate student in City & Regional Planning at the Pratt Institute (where he focuses on Transportation Planning) and works as a research associate for the Brooklyn-based planning consulting firm The Street Plans Collaborative. Hailing from The Netherlands, Ronald brings knowledge of time-tested sustainable urban planning and design concepts to the table . [...]

Now retired after nearly 37 years of continuous service with New York City Transit I continue to be passionate about the importance of public transit. As a resident of Forest Hills, Queens and non-auto-owning pedestrian (regularly threatened by reckless drivers) and transit patron I’m particularly interested in the implementation of vehicular traffic calming measures as [...]

Mike Lydon is the founding Principal of The Street Plans Collaborative. As a planner, writer, and activist, Mike’s work has appeared in or been featured by CNN Headline News, Planetizen, Next American City, New Urban News, Planning Magazine, the Miami Herald, and The Village Voice, among other publications. Mike has also collaborated with Andres Duany [...]

Julia is the Director of Transportation and Health at Transportation Alternatives where she shows how streets are public spaces that should serve everyone. She develops infrastructure projects and policies to support this goal. Prior to T.A. she worked with the Project for Public Spaces and the League of Young Voters. Julia’s involvement with Planning Corp [...]

Josef Szende currently works with Charles Komanoff for the Nurture Nature Foundation on policy to properly fund transit in the New York City region. He also believes that collaboration and knowledge sharing are the greatest tools planners have. Josef holds a Masters in Urban Planning from Columbia University but he’s actually from Toronto, Ontario. He [...]

Brendan Shera is a 2010 of Columbia University’s master’s program in urban planning. He is currently interning with the Department of Transportation’s Bicycle Program, and has previously worked for Bus Planning at New York City Transit, Brooklyn’s Fifth Avenue Committee, and the Office of the Erie County Executive. Mapping, transit planning, bicycle planning, affordable housing, [...]

Shin-pei started Planning Corps with Frank when she was the Deputy Director of Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit focused on transportation issues in New York City. She is currently the director of the Leadership Initiative for Transportation Solvency in the Energy and Climate Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also served as [...]