The Board of Directors is responsible for the high level strategic planning, governance, and direction of the organization. The Board recruits annually beginning in October-December, with new members onboarded in April every year. Recruitment for our Technical Advisory Council is twice a year in March-April and September-October.
At Greenroads, social equity is part of our core definition of sustainability. We believe in creating an inclusive and just volunteering environment for everyone and actively commit to removing barriers to success, no matter who you are, what you look like, or who you love.
Joining the Technical Advisory Council is a great way to develop leadership skills and contribute to Greenroads as a volunteer in your area of expertise.
Jesse Thomsen is Vice President at Perteet, Inc. He has designed and managed transportation design projects for many agencies throughout the Northwest for Perteet Inc. Jesse focuses on sustainable project design through pavement design, LID (low impact development) drainage solutions, and creating multimodal corridors that enhance the public transportation experience. Jesse is also practiced in the application of the Greenroads Rating System through his work as project manager for the City of Kirkland’s NE 120th Street Roadway Extension project, as well as through several pilot projects for the City of Seattle.
Ashley Hernandez is a civil engineer with 10 years of experience, specializing in Sustainable transport infrastructure. Ashley is a Sustainable Transport Professional (STP) accredited with Greenroads and an Infrastructure Sustainability Accredited Professional under the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia. She has also been involved in Road Safety Auditing (completed the Queensland University of Technology Road Safety Auditing and Crash Investigation course in Brisbane, Australia); pedestrian and cyclist safety; access and mobility planning and design; public transport planning and design (predominantly the Eastern Busway, Brisbane, Australia); road design; traffic analysis; and other transport related projects. Ashley has worked in Australia, the United Arab Emirates and South Africa.
Shelley Richards is a Vice President and Client Account Manager for Transportation at Jacobs and a civil engineer with over twenty years of experience managing the design, construction, and environmental aspects of transportation projects. She is responsible for business development and clients in the transportation industry in Oregon (roadway, bridge, rail, transit, ports, airports). Previously, she oversaw environmental permitting and transportation engineering needs to meet design and construction requirements and was responsible for planning, design, construction, project administration, client relations, and quality control. As an environmental manager at her previous company she assisted contractors in integrating sustainable practices and communicating those efforts to the public. Her team developed a sustainability framework and a goal tracking system for major infrastructure projects, including the Oregon Department of Transportation’s program to replace 300 bridges across the state. She is passionate about helping in her community and her boxers, Cinder Haven and Bentley.
For the past eight years Maleena served as an environmental engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Seattle District. Within her technical role, she has worked to reduce the environmental impacts of Department of Defense operations and clean up some of our nation’s highest priority hazardous waste sites. Following her passion for sustainability, she did a detail in 2013–14 at the USACE headquarters in Washington, D.C., where she worked with top leadership in support of their Sustainability and Energy Program. She learned a great deal about organizational policy, program development, and selecting appropriate sustainability goals and metrics. She believes that one of the keys to effecting change in an organization like the Corps (or an industry like transportation) is education and she served as a course developer and instructor for two sustainability-related training courses.
Jeanne Acutanza is a transportation planner with project management, facilitation, and technology expertise. From tolling to transit, Jeanne has worked to convey complex technical analysis for a lay audience. Jeanne has volunteered as a member of her Transportation Commission and in local chapters of Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) and Women & Transportation Seminar (WTS). She has helped coordinate regional and national conferences for COMTO, Railvolution, and TRB HOV. She has served as a board member of Transportation Choices Coalition and the Seattle Freight Advisory Board. Jeanne holds a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from Lehigh University.
Catherine Prince is a Senior Transportation Project Manager at WSP, Miami, FL. She assists agencies in implementing multimodal infrastructure improvements to achieve their safety, mobility, and sustainability goals. Catherine is leading the effort for the Vision Zero Implementation Plan, Miami-Dade County, and part of a team leading the Project Development and Environment (PD&E) study of three of a total five premium transit corridors of Miami-Dade County’s Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan. She brings a unique and multifaceted perspective in creating desirable and active urban spaces, thanks to her background in architecture, town-planning, and urban design. In her previous role at the City of Fort Lauderdale, Catherine executed numerous pilot projects, including an electric bicycle cargo delivery program in collaboration with UPS. During her tenure she also managed a number roadway design and construction projects, giving her a strong combination of the planning as well as the execution challenges, along with the importance of working with the community to make innovative ideas successful. Catherine has also worked on multiple local and international Transit-Oriented-Development (TOD) area plans to create walkable, bikeable communities anchored around transit. She was part of the ‘Built Environment and Transportation’ workgroup, South Florida Climate Change Compact, a regional working group that recommends policy changes and provides guidelines for a resilient South Florida. When Catherine is not on the drawing board, she is biking or playing ‘Catan’ with her boys.
Amlan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Michigan Technological University. His research and professional interests focus on studying sustainability and resilience of civil infrastructure systems using methods in life cycle assessment, stochastic analysis and simulations. Dr. Mukherjee currently holds professional memberships with the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Construction Research Congress (CRC), and Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE). He serves on the Federal Highways Sustainable Pavements Technical Working Group, and on the Board of Directors for the Green Building Initiative. He is also the founder and partner at Trisight, LLC. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University at Buffalo, (SUNY) and a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India. He is a licensed professional engineer in the State of Michigan.
Brett Ogilvie is a director at Tonkin + Taylor Group Ltd., and an executive leader for the company's environmental team. He has 25 years of international experience in environmental investigations, research, and EIA, working with clients in numerous sectors including roads and highways, ports and harbours, minerals, industry, wastewater, water supply, power generation, and oil and gas. He is currently the designated ecology lead or environmental manager for several New Zealand Transport Agency projects. While he has a strong technical background in ecology and water quality, he has significant experience in leading multidisciplinary environmental investigation and assessment teams for large infrastructure projects. His educational background includes environmental economics, zoology, and biology.
Anna Pablo is a Senior Software Engineer and Product Manager at Microsoft and is pursuing her MBA with the University of Washington Foster School of Business. As a technologist, she brings perspective from a variety of technical angles. At Amazon and Microsoft, she built web apps, services, tools, and infrastructure, and managed projects. She enjoys challenging projects that involve marketing, financial analysis, and planning. Anna enjoys reading about financial markets, the global economy, and politics. She reads foreign fiction in order to gain perspective on struggles of people from cultures, religions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. She loves languages and has an ambition to learn a few.
S. Elysha Luken is a Partner in the Fort Lauderdale office of Smith, Currie & Hancock LLP, and is a Florida Bar Board-Certified Construction Attorney. She has practiced construction law for over 18 years. She specializes in representing and advising contractors, owners, design professionals, suppliers and sureties on public and private construction projects, from bid protests to contract drafting to claims, and from dispute resolution to litigation and arbitration. In her practice, she has seen an increasing call for sustainability in construction, from planning to design to construction and operation. She has advised clients on projects with sustainable goals and obtained a LEED Green Associate credential to assist in addressing legal matters associated with green building. She has lectured extensively on legal issues related to sustainable construction, including interpretation and utilization of standard contract forms by AIA, DBIA, and others that provide for sustainable project goals as a contract requirement. Having recently obtained her STP credential, she is extremely impressed with the thoughtfulness and insight in the credential system and is excited to assist in spreading the reach of Greenroads. Elysha received her B.A. degree from the University of Florida, and her J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Florida State University, serving as Legislative Editor and Editorial Board member for the Florida State University Law Review. Prior to joining Smith Currie, Elysha worked as a Staff Attorney at the Florida Supreme Court and held several clerkships.
Ian McPherran is a project manager for Kiewit Infrastructure West Co. He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Tufts University and has worked with Kiewit for 13 years on design-build transportation infrastructure projects in Oregon, Washington, New York, and Quebec. He has worked on several design-build cable-stayed bridge projects and is experienced in planning and constructing trestle and cofferdam installations, structural steel erection, precast and cast-in-place concrete bridge deck installation, and cable stay and post tensioning installation. Ian has estimated project costs on bridge construction and retrofit projects, including procurement, scheduling, MOT, and project phasing.
Archie has over 16 years of experience in construction industry with focus on Transportation and Marine Construction. The majority of this experience was in the Northwest, with a few years in Nebraska and Kentucky. Currently Archie is Senior Project Manager for Atkinson Construction, and is working in the Seattle Area. Archie received both his Bachelor’s and Master of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University and is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Washington.
Martin Pastucha is the Public Works Administrator for the City of Renton, Washington. He is a retired Public Works and Airport Director for the City of Santa Monica, California. He has been active with the League of California Cities, serving as the President of the Public Works Officer Department in 2010 and on the Board of Directors. He is also a member of the International Affairs Committee of American Public Works Association, the Board of Directors of Southern California Chapter of the American Public Works Association, and CALTRANS Transportation Advisory Committee.
Tim Sexton is an Assistant Commissioner and the Chief Sustainability Officer for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT). Mr. Sexton is responsible for implementing state goals to reduce carbon pollution from the transportation sector, increase efficiency of agency operations, improve transportation system resilience, and strengthen connections between the transportation and public health communities. He has more than 15 years of transportation experience throughout the United States and has contributed to the state-of-the-practice through leadership roles with AASHTO, mentored young professionals through APA, and nurtured research as chair of Transportation Research Board committees. His work has focused on reducing the environmental impacts from transportation, including authoring the WSDOT Noise Policy, creating the first guidance for incorporating GHG emissions into NEPA (WSDOT), and developing and implementing a strategic plan to reduce transportation carbon pollution in Minnesota.
Lee Anne Dixon facilitates operations for Civil, Water Resources, Transportation, Traffic and Planning at Walter P Moore. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, she champions teamwork in delivering solutions that go beyond client expectations. Her career began in traffic engineering and transportation planning where she focused on improving safety and mobility for all modes. She values an approach that looks at both the big picture and the fine details, identifying strategic improvements that best benefit all parties. Clients often comment on her responsiveness and attention to detail. She enjoys soliciting public opinion through public meetings or one-on-one conversations with stakeholders to best identify key issues and ideas.
Pamela Yonkin is the Sustainability & Resiliency Transportation Director for HDR. She has more than 20 years of experience in infrastructure, primarily focused on transportation and solid waste projects. For the past 10 years, Pam has been a part of HDR’s Economics and Finance group, where she has led regional economic analyses, planning studies, economic development studies, benefit-cost analyses, Sustainable Value Analyses, and alternatives analyses. Pam has also led a number of rail and freight planning studies, including those in urban areas, and she has been a key contributor on long range transportation plans. Prior to joining HDR, she taught economics at New England College in Henniker, NH. Currently, Pam leads HDR’s sustainability and resiliency efforts within transportation. In this capacity, she supports and leads the firm’s planning efforts to incorporate triple bottom line, as well as resiliency and redundancy, considerations into decision-making. She also helps agencies develop sustainability plans and is certified in third party sustainability rating systems. Pam received her B.A. in Mathematics from Hobart & William Smith Colleges and her M.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia. Pam lives in New Castle, New Hampshire, with her husband Tom Maher and their two children, Sophie and Cole. Pam enjoys kickboxing and bicycling along the NH coast.
Stephanie Oslick is West Coast Director of Environmental Services at Moffatt & Nichol. With more than 25 years of experience managing the environmental planning process on a wide array of infrastructure-related projects, Stephanie’s responsibilities span all project phases and include preparing and supervising preparation of environmental documents and reports to comply with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and other environmental regulations, obtaining regulatory permits and coordinating with local, state and federal officials. During her more than seven years of experience at Caltrans, Stephanie served as general environmental planner, district biologist, and District Liaison to the California Coastal Commission for the Division of Environmental Planning.
Yvette Kirrin is Principal and President of Southstar Engineering & Consulting, Inc. She is a civil engineer with over 27 years of experience in managing the planning, design, construction phases of small- and large-scale transportation infrastructure projects. For the past five years, she has overseen the Complete Street Master Planning Initiative for the Gateway Cities Council of Governments (GCCOG), which includes over 27 cities and jurisdictions in southeastern Los Angeles County. Two multijurisdictional corridors, each over 10 miles, have sustainable corridor master plans resulting from the initiative, and seven additional corridors are fully funded for the next 1-3 years. After determining the transportation deficiencies, opportunities, and constraints for each jurisdiction, Yvette recommends sustainable infrastructure improvements and possible funding options to design and construct these projects. Increasing live-work access by providing safe and efficient multimodal access through adequate bicycle, pedestrian and transit facilities is central to her work. The GCCOG subregion contains several of California’s most disadvantaged communities, resulting in very dense population bases with a large, unfunded need for transportation infrastructure. This subregion benefits the most by investment in sustainable transportation infrastructure, which has been a focus in the state.
Charles Penland is the Director of Civil Engineering Services for Walter P Moore. He has more than 35 years of experience in engineering design, project management, and construction with a special interest in hydraulic design, hydrologic analysis, and flood protection. Mr. Penland has given presentations on flood protection design and flood emergency preparation. He teaches the Rice University Civil and Environmental Department’s Senior Design class. He served on the Harris County Flood Control Low Impact Development guidelines committee and the Houston Land and Water Sustainability Forum.
Franklin Sherkow has more than 35 years of experience. His expertise includes transportation and traffic engineering, urban and transportation/transit planning, project management, land development, maglev and fixed-guideway planning and design, airport development and operations, port planning and design, transportation construction/operations/ maintenance. It also includes public and private finance development, and experience in service and facility privatization, and managed competition. He has extensive experience with public outreach. Mr. Sherkow has held senior executive positions in state, regional and local transportation agencies since 1978 and was recognized as one of the Top 50 County Public Works Directors in the nation by Governing magazine. He has 20 years of public-sector experience, six years on the Civil Engineering faculty at Oregon State University, and 20 years as a consultant with national and regional firms. He is a registered engineer in seven states, and an Envision™ Sustainability Professional (ENV SP) for the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. He is a Fellow Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and Past President of Oregon ASCE Section. Mr. Sherkow served as Chairman and Member of Visiting Committee, University of Wisconsin, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department.
Josh serves as Director of Environmental Codes & Standards for UL’s Environment & Sustainability Division. He is responsible for authority having jurisdiction engagement and outside code participation for UL. In this role he helps develop and track the environmental rating systems/standards/codes/
Kristofer Casselman Assoc. AIA, PMP is a senior team member responsible for developing the bricks and mortar growth strategy for the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, one of America's largest and fastest growing airports. Prior to this role, Mr. Casselman worked as a Design Build Manager and Senior Architect in AECOM's global aviation business line with stints in the US Northwest, Middle East and Southern California. He has extensive hands-on experience in developing aviation mega programs for global clients and ensuring these complex design and build visions are sensibly realized, efficiently executed and built as defined. His program work emphasizes building performance, project delivery and staff engagement.
Maurice A. Henderson II was Director of Government Partnerships at Bird. He has worked both domestically and internationally in the public and private sectors and on a number of political and advocacy campaigns across the country. Whether in his time as an educator, in his roles in the public sector, advocating for working people under the banner of organized labor, or on the campaign trail for individuals and causes he supported, nearly his entire professional career has been spent working towards providing equitable access to opportunities, most recently through his work in the Smart Cities arena. He has served as the Chief Operating Officer for the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet) in Portland, as the Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler's Chief of Staff, as the Deputy Director at the Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT), as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Technology Office in Washington, D.C., and as the Deputy Press Secretary for former Virginia Governor, now U.S. Senator, Tim Kaine. His service has included membership on a number of non-profit boards, currently including the North American Bikeshare Association (NABSA). He is a member of the inaugural class of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. In 2021, he was appointed as Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Kelsie is a registered Professional Engineer in California. She has 18 years of experience as both a private consultant in large highway design, and public sector in land development regulation, municipal transportation engineering, and regional long-range transportation planning. Ms. Anderson currently works for Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) in Irvine, CA and also serves on the WTS Orange County TransportationYOU Committee. Kelsie has a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Irvine (Zot! Zot! Zot!).
Andrew Oshrin is a registered Professional Engineer in California. He has 26 years of experience in the public sector delivering freeway and conventional highway projects in Orange County and three years of experience as the acting Sustainability Program Manager in District 12. Andrew also served in the private sector, delivering land development projects. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from California State University, Long Beach and a Master of Business Administration with a marketing emphasis from University of Southern California. Andrew has served as an application author and examiner for California Awards for Performance Excellence, a Malcolm Baldrige- based award for California businesses. He also helped found and lead Newcomb Academy Foundation, a nonprofit fundraising organization that has raised and invested close to $2M since inception towards a single public K-8 school in Long Beach, California.
Grant is the Vice President of Strategy and Innovation at Superior Bowen. A graduate of Saint John’s University, with majors in Pre-Medicine (emphasis in biochemistry), Political Science, and Constitutional Law, Grant has been a guest speaker for state DOTs, APAs, and Universities on topics ranging from best practices in using Recycled Materials to Basics in Asphalt Chemistry and Modification. He has designed and overseen DOT pilot paving projects in NC and TX. Grant is a member of AAPT, MoDOT Technical Advisory Committee, a friend of the National Center for Asphalt Technology’s Application Steering Committee, FHWA Resource Responsible Asphalt Mixtures Technical Advisory Committee, APA Northcentral Technical Advisory Committee, APA Northcentral Director’s Advisory Team, and most recently the Asphalt Institute Foundation’s Strategic Asphalt Research Symposium.
Jennifer has more than 25 years of experience in the Green Building industry. They are a LEED Accredited and Living Future Accredited Professional, a Certified Erosion and Sediment Control Lead, HAZWOPER 40 Hour certified, and studying to achieve a Registered Environmental Manager certification. Jennifer spent almost two decades with Sellen Construction Company, Inc. as a Construction Project Manager and Sustainability Program Manager, before joining Sazan Environmental Services. Jennifer serves as an advocate for clients and the community, helping achieve 3rd party certifications, custom sustainability programs, and environmental regulatory compliance. Jennifer has been a member of various advisory groups including General Services Administration Federal Office of High-Performing Buildings Green Building Advisory Group, Association of General Contractors of America – Environmental Steering Committee, Association of General Contractors of Washington Environmental + Sustainability Committee, Port of Seattle Commissioners Energy + Sustainability Advisory Committee, and Washington Businesses for Climate Action Leadership Committee.
Hugh Milliken brings over twenty years’ experience in civil engineering and management of large civil infrastructure projects in both Australia and New Zealand. His years spent in the construction industry has given Hugh first-hand experience in construction management. He is a relatable and practical Project Director and Civil Engineer who is familiar with all aspects of construction management and project delivery and he has been involved in the design and construction management of a wide variety of civil engineering projects. Previous projects have included dams, tunnels, wastewater treatment plants, port facilities and rail projects. Hugh is currently the Alliance Manager on the Mount Messenger Bypass which is a $200M road construction project. Hugh’s previous role as the Memorial Park Alliance won first place in the 2018 CCNZ construction excellence awards for project between $20M and $100M. His experience includes many delivery methods, from construct only models, Design and Construct projects and lately in full collaborative alliancing models responsible for complete multidisciplinary delivery of complex infrastructure.
Maggie Sciubba, president of Knowledge Resource, has a bachelor’s in political science with a minor in business management and language from Pace University. Maggie has more than 20 years of construction experience and has spent more than a decade on projects seeking sustainability pathways and certifications. In her experiences as a subcontracting/procurement manager and sustainability project advisor, she learned the importance of client service, scheduling priorities, and budget compliance. Prior to starting her LEED Administration/Subcontracting Consulting business, Maggie spent 10 years as the Subcontracting/Procurement Manager and another three years as a Green Project Advisor within the construction world. Both of these positions offered her great opportunities to experience construction building and see the green movement materialize.
Stevan Gorcester is a 35-year career professional in public management, transportation and capital finance. His successful efforts to turn around an ailing state grant agency earned him multiple awards for financial excellence and innovation. He speaks and teaches nationally in the areas of Lean government, grant administration, and data dashboards. He has studied and applied Lean (Toyota Production System) in a variety of state and local governments. Stevan led development of the Pierce County Transportation Plan. He advised the Metropolitan King County Council in its capacity as the Metro Transit board from 1994 to 2001. He evaluated and educated board members on the Metro Transit budget and redeveloped the transit capital program. He was the principal analyst on the Benton-Franklin PTBA team that formed Ben Franklin Transit.
Doug Feremenga is an Environmental Planning Manager for California’s largest tolling agency, the Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA) in Orange County. Doug's responsibilities include managing TCA’s nearly 2,200 acres of open space, preparing environmental documents, obtaining permits, and coordinating with various federal, state, regional, and local agencies. He works on conservation and roadway ecology issues, looking at wildlife connectivity for various species including the Santa Ana mountain lions. As an urban and environmental planner, Doug has over 20 years of professional experience providing environmental resource management; project planning and management; project permitting; preparation and/or review of environmental documents; construction and mitigation monitoring; technical support, and coordination with various stakeholders in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.
Michael Green is a practiced executive with broad legal, compliance and sustainability experience working for a multibillion dollar publicly traded company, as well public accounting and the government. He currently serves as director of compliance and counsel, chair of sustainability council for Granite Construction. Michael loves devising creative and ethical solutions to complex legal and regulatory business problems, as well as leading interdisciplinary teams through complicated regulatory investigations. He brings a unique background and leadership ability in corporate social responsibility to the Greenroads Team.
Andrew Reker is an emerging professional in the public transit planning field. He is currently working as Assistant Transportation Planner for the City of Cambridge in Massachussetts. Andrew's focus areas include public transit equity and justice analysis, public engagement, active/bike-ped transportation systems, land use-design-transportation issues, and regional planning initiatives. He is fluent in many languages including English, Spanish, and conversational Japanese and French.
Ed Luce is the Director of Technical Services for Cemex and is based in San Diego, California. He has over 30 years of construction-industry experience including working in materials laboratories for both asphalt pavement materials and ready-mixed concrete materials. Ed is currently serving as co-chair of the Caltrans-industry Rock Products Committee for the California Asphalt Pavement Association. He is also an active supporter for local charities serving children living in foster care and children with Type 2 diabetes.
As HDR’s Transportation Sustainability Director, Janet is responsible for the organization’s sustainability practice across the spectrum of transportation services. Her work focuses on advancing sustainability initiatives and helping clients address challenges surrounding infrastructure vulnerability and resiliency. Janet’s background provides for a diverse approach to the sustainable development and implementation of community planning and transportation projects. Her experience includes transportation program management, planning and community design projects, leading sustainability visioning sessions for clients, and public involvement and stakeholder facilitation in bilingual capacity.
As Executive Communications Manager for King County, Washington, Jamie Holter is a welcome addition to our team of engineers, because she knows how to talk transportation and translate our technical terms and data for broad communication. She's a seasoned professional communicator, or as she calls it, a "recovering journalist." Far away from her former land of CNN, she found herself in the abyss of civil engineering and construction as Washington DOT Director of Communications for Puget Sound for a decade. She then wandered into the world of traffic data at INRIX and can nerd out on travel times and routes with the best of them.
With 15 years of experience, Kimbra Wellock develops innovative public engagement programs for a variety of planning and infrastructure projects including high-capacity transit, wastewater, and bicycle and pedestrian trails in all phases of project development. She is a member of the American Planning Association and holds a Master of Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Arts degree in international studies from American University.
Freeman Anthony is a registered Professional Engineer in Utah and Washington State. He has 12 years of experience as a both a private consultant and public sector engineer in municipal water, wastewater, stormwater and transportation infrastructure with a focus on sustainable design and construction. He has worked in New Zealand, Indonesia, and the United States. He currently works for the City of Bellingham, Washington, overseeing a $45 million wastewater treatment plant expansion via alternate delivery process. His design background includes water/wastewater facilities, multimodal transportation corridors and sustainable design concepts such as porous concrete, rain gardens, and pin foundations. With the City of Bellingham, he has worked on agency-wide sustainable construction specifications, transportation policies, and infrastructure facility plans. His projects have received project of the year awards in transportation for Washington State from both APWA and ASCE. He previously served as the chair of the APWA National Transportation Sustainability Subcommittee and currently chairs the APWA Transportation Committee.
Deron Lovaas is director of state/federal policy & practice for NRDC’s Urban Solutions Group. He is an expert on a variety of issues and has testified multiple times before Congress on topics including energy efficiency, transportation infrastructure, and climate change. Prior to joining NRDC in 2001, Deron worked for the National Wildlife Federation, Maryland’s Department of Environment, Zero Population Growth, and the Sierra Club, where he directed a national campaign to reduce suburban sprawl. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. He blogs at https://www.nrdc.org/experts/deron-lovaas and tweets from @LovNRDC.
Murray served on the Board after retiring from his former position as Vice President of Sustainability for the Ledcor Group of Companies. He hails from the high north in Vancouver, BC and has been a critical connection to Greenroads getting its feet wet in projects in Canada, especially for P3 major redevelopment projects. Murray has been a longtime champion for sustainability in construction and the built environment, and knows what he's talking "aboot" when it comes to green.
Manfred Uken is Deputy Director BU Transport, Aviation and Planning at Royal HaskoningDHV in Cape Town, South Africa. Manfred is partly responsible for the small collection of Pilot Projects we've started down in South Africa, and leads the Interim Board of the South Africa Chapter of Greenroads International.
John J. Kennedy is a Sr. Principal with and Co-founder of VHB, a 1000 plus employee owned consultancy providing transportation, land engineering, environmental engineering and sciences and energy permitting and transmission. While he is based in the firm’s Watertown Massachusetts Corporate office, he remains active in supporting the firm’s transportation practice in all of the firm’s 22 east coast offices, with more than 43 years of engineering, operations, and planning experience.
As President and CEO of Perteet, Inc., Crystal Donner provides oversight and leadership for a technical team of over 70 people, who specialize in the planning and design of sustainable transportation infrastructure projects for public agencies. She has over 25 years experience designing and managing a wide variety of civil and transportation public infrastructure projects, including over two decades with Perteet. Along with being a founding board member of the Greenroads Foundation, Crystal serves as Vice Chair of Economic Alliance Snohomish County and sits on the advisory board of Washington State University’s College of Environmental and Civil Engineering.
Julia Anastasio was Director of Sustainability for the American Public Works Association (APWA) and was responsible for managing and directing the APWA Center for Sustainability during her term as Board Member for Greenroads Foundation. Prior to becoming Director of Sustainability, Julia was APWA’s Senior Manager of Government Affairs where she advocated on the legislative and regulatory affairs affecting public works agencies and public infrastructure, with a focus on environmental issues. Julia served on the board from 2012 until 2014.
Sam Seskin's innovative and successful planning assignments have won national awards from the American Planning Association, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Congress for New Urbanism. Sam is chairman of the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on Transportation and Land Development, and serves on the editorial advisory board of Transportation, an international journal devoted to the improvement of transportation planning and practice. Sam served as Vice President of Greenroads’ Board of Directors from 2011 to 2014 and is happily retired.
Adam Hand is a professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. He has been part of the Greenroads Board since 2011 and was formerly corporate Director of Quality Management at Granite Construction Incorporated. Prior to his work at Granite, Adam was an assistant professor at Purdue University, teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in topics such as construction materials, pavement design, and bituminous materials and mixtures. Adam also conducted research related to paving materials and mixtures, pavement design and analysis, pavement performance analyses, and specification development. He is a licensed professional engineer in multiple states, and serves on various local, state, and national technical committees, boards, and panels.
Steve Muench is an Associate Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a founding Board Member of Greenroads. At the UW, Steve studies sustainability, roadway design, construction, pavements, materials, and online learning. He is also a co-founder and board member of Pavia Systems, Inc., a company that creates web-based training solutions for the asphalt industry. Prior to working at the UW, Steve was a transportation design engineer at Perteet, Inc. and a submarine officer in the U.S. Navy.
