Advancing Equity through Agency Actions

October 28, 2020 @ 1:30 pm - 3:15 pm PDT

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Advancing Equity through Agency Actions

What is the role of transportation agencies in the pursuit of equity and justice? Speakers will share their perspectives from a very large agency, a board member at a transit agency with a large police force, and the model of a non-profit partnering with agencies and cities to augment their internal capacity to advance equity.

Executive Officer, Equity and Race

KeAndra Cylear Dodds
Senior Community Planner

Jamario Jackson
President of the Board, BART

Lateefah Simon
Research Project Manager

Jacob Wasserman

Executive Officer, Equity and Race

KeAndra Cylear Dodds

KeAndra Cylear Dodds is the Executive Officer, Equity and Race at LA Metro. Prior to Metro, she oversaw the County’s affordable housing preservation and homeownership programs as Manager of Preservation at the LA County Development Authority. Her career began as a state affordable housing attorney at Western Center on Law and Poverty. KeAndra received her law degree from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law and her bachelor’s from the University of Pennsylvania.

Senior Community Planner

Jamario Jackson

Jamario is a Senior Community Planner at TransForm, which is a non-profit in Northern California shaping transportation related decisions by advocating for community needs. Jamario leads TransForm’s East Oakland mobility justice partnerships. Prior to joining TransForm, Jamario worked for a member of the California State Assembly, a public transit agency, and a member of the United States Senate. In part, his time in the public sector has shaped his lens concerning political and legislative landscapes.

President of the Board, BART

Lateefah Simon

A nationally recognized advocate for civil rights and racial justice, Lateefah brings over 20 years of executive experience advancing opportunities for communities of color and low-income communities in the Bay Area. Raised in the Fillmore District of San Francisco, Lateefah began organizing at age 15 for the Center for Young Women’s Development. At 19-years-old she was appointed Executive Director of CYWD, where she served 11 years and brought the organization to national acclaim. At 26, her work earned her the distinction of the youngest woman ever to receive a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. She went on to lead the creation of San Francisco’s first reentry services division under the leadership of then-District Attorney Kamala D. Harris. Lateefah later served as Executive Director of the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights and Program Director at the Rosenberg Foundation.

Research Project Manager

Jacob Wasserman

Jacob Wasserman is a Research Project Manager at the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies. With a background in transportation equity, finance, and demand management, Wasserman coordinates research into public transit and other mobility issues, with recent projects on pre-pandemic transit ridership trends, homelessness in transit environments, and sources and gaps in transit ridership data. Prior to joining ITS, he worked for the Cities of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Haven on capital budgeting and active transportation. He also served as a Transportation Justice Fellow for Bay Area Rapid Transit Director Lateefah Simon, coordinating passage of the system’s Safe Transit sanctuary policy. Wasserman has a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

At the conclusion of this session, registered participants will have the option of joining a 30-minute small-group breakout session.

This session will be simulcast on YouTube for observer access.

On-demand AICP CM credits

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