Public Work

Articles, Presentations, and Podcasts

Four-part series with Transit Center on transit workforce challenges
Part 1: Passionate, Public Service-Oriented People Seeking Healthy, Rewarding Working Environments
Part 2: Facilitating Mental Health and Well-Being for the Transit Workforce
Part 3: Public Service and Making an Impact
Part 4: The Centrality of Human Resources to Transit’s Success

Equity and Inclusion are Spatial, article in Transit Center zine Subtext, January 9, 2023.

For Justice in Transportation, We Cannot Just be Planners, article in State of Transportation Planning 2022, American Planning Association, Transportation Planning Division, August 2022.

Transit Research in Practice: Making change from inside an agency, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies weekly seminar, April 8, 2022.

The inside/outside approach to win more equitable transit, High Frequency Podcast from Transit Center, posted November 12, 2021

Building back more equitable transit service: The How, not the What (presentation from 2:34:28 to 3:21:09), Research to Practice Transit Symposium, with Anna Gartsman, October 12, 2021.

Service changes are hard but necessary, Transit Center guest blog post, September 1, 2021

Bus is finally get the respect it deserves, Commonwealth Magazine, July 2, 2021

Boston Globe op-ed on low-income fares and free bus, April 23, 2021

WGBH Forum on free fares, April 23, 2021

Mobility Roundtable on Public Transit, January 21, 2021

Transit Center COVID Planning Roundtable, October 22, 2020

Transit Center interview on transit ridership, June 4, 2018

Talking Headways interview, May 26, 2016