Christine (Chris) Hagebaumer

Chris Hagerbaumer is the Executive Director of OpenAQ, a nonprofit that aligns disparate air-quality measurements from across the globe into a single, standardized open-source platform. Prior to her current position, Chris played a key role in advancing more equitable and climate-friendly transportation policies in Oregon. Many of the breakthrough initiatives that she helped to shape have received national and international attention and been emulated in other jurisdictions.

During her tenure at Oregon Environmental Council — as Deputy Director and as Program Director for Transportation & Climate — Chris advocated for a non-polluting transportation system that supports clean air, climate stability and healthy families living in economically viable neighborhoods. As an early advocate for pay-as-you-drive insurance, Chris worked with thought-leaders from across the nation to design Oregon’s tax credit program to incentivize the approach. She subsequently worked to secure passage of a law enabling pay-as-you-drive insurance in 2003. That first-in-the-nation legislation has consistently drawn auto insurance companies offering innovative products tailored to low-mileage drivers to the Oregon market. 

Chris played an integral role in securing the passage of other state-level transportation policies, including the first legislatively adopted low-carbon fuel standard in the nation; Oregon’s first significant dedicated source of funding for public transit; requirements for major metropolitan areas to consider mobility-related greenhouse gases in transportation planning; the Oregon Clean Car Standards; a requirement that the state determine “willingness to pay” through tolls on drivers when it plans major new capacity increases; and diesel engine clean-up.

She earned her master’s degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago and her bachelor’s degree in German Literature from Reed College.

Jerome A. Horne

Jerome A. Horne is the Red Line Communications Manager at the Maryland Department of Transportation, within the Maryland Transit Administration (MDOT MTA). In this role, he brings extensive experience in public transportation and community engagement.

Jerome’s career spans key roles at IndyGo (Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation), Foursquare ITP, and TransitCenter, a national advocacy and research organization.

A passionate advocate for car-optional living, he is dedicated to creating walkable, bikeable, and transit-oriented communities. His enthusiasm for these goals is infectious. Throughout his career, Jerome has focused on improving the rider experience, engaging communities proactively, and fostering greater diversity in transit leadership. His dedication to the transit field has earned him recognition in the "40 Under 40" lists of both Mass Transit magazine and the Association for Commuter Transportation. Jerome is also a graduate of the American Public Transportation Association’s Emerging Leaders Program.

A strong advocate for nurturing the next generation of transit professionals, Jerome founded and served as board chair for the Young Professionals in Transportation (YPT) Indianapolis chapter. From 2018 to 2020, he was Deputy Director of Communications for YPT International and also served as a Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Ambassador.

A resident of Baltimore, Jerome lives a car-free lifestyle, relying on transit, biking, and walking for both daily commutes and leisure. He enjoys spending time around the Inner Harbor, attending live performances, and visiting museums. Jerome is also the curator of a unique collection of transit memorabilia, known as the "International Micro Museum of Transit."

Peter Katz

Peter Katz is the founder and CEO of SmartGO. In this role he oversees the organization’s programs, operations and policy initiatives.

Prior to launching SmartGO, Peter was instrumental in the formation of the New Urbanism movement, which the New York Times called “the most important phenomenon to emerge in American architecture in the post-Cold War era.” Katz served as founding executive director of the Congress for the New Urbanism, an organization that recently convened its twenty-seventh annual meeting.  He’s also author of a seminal book on the subject—The New Urbanism: Toward an Architecture of Community (McGraw-Hill, 1994).

Peter was the lead advisor on the Contra Costa Centre Transit Village, a Transit Oriented Development in Northern California. The project, stalled for twenty years due to NIMBY opposition, employed a range of new urbanism best practices and gained municipal approval in just 18 months. It received the American Planning Association’s 2012 National Award for Implementation.

Peter Katz has served in several public-sector planning roles. He worked as a senior planner in Oceanside, California, as Director of Smart Growth and Urban Planning in Sarasota County, Florida and as Director of Planning in Arlington County, Virginia. That work has given him a unique perspective on the challenges faced by local government as it attempts to accommodate new preferences in community planning using decades-old policy guidance and regulatory approaches.

Courtney Menjivar

Courtney Menjivar is a leading authority on mobility management and transportation demand management (TDM). She is Vice President of Wells + Associates, a transportation planning/engineering firm dedicated to improving mobility and expanding access for all.

A pivotal moment in Courtney’s career came when she was selected for an assignment in Perth, Australia. It was there that she collaboraed with noted researcher Werner Broeg, in the implementation of Western Australia’s pioneering TravelSmart program (now known as Your Move). That regional initiative, designed to reduce dependence on cars and promote smarter transportation choices, has since become a model for mobility programs across the globe. Now referred to as individualized marketing programs, or “indimarks,” these highly effective programs leverage behavioral psychology, rewards, data collection, coaching and peer support to better align individual commuting habits with community goals.

After Courtney’s experience in Australia, she returned to the United States to direct and advise on similar initiatives in Portland (OR), Seattle and Chicago. Her work on Portland’s Smart Trips program included a Federal Transit Administration Individualized Marketing Demonstration Project.

Courtney remains a passionate and dedicated global leader in the practice of TDM, committed to transforming travel behaviors across the United States and Canada. Her current work includes developing, implementing, and evaluating TDM programs and marketing campaigns for cutting-edge real estate projects and communities.

Courtney speaks, organizes, and participates in industry gatherings to promote and identify new ways to solve transportation and parking challenges. Hailing from Winnipeg, Canada, Courtney earned her Business Administration degree from the University of Manitoba. Following graduation, she significantly impacted the University of Manitoba Asper School of Business Transport Institute, a world-renowned research institute in transportation and logistics.

Michael Replogle

Michael Replogle, a senior advisor to governments and corporations, is globally recognized as a leading transportation expert. He is founder, director emeritus, and past president of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP), which promotes sustainable and equitable cities worldwide. He is campaigning to reform America’s broken transportation planning and project approval process by seeking more honest analysis and disclosure of investment impacts on environmental justice, climate, and health. Replogle advises Earthjustice on transportation agency action to respond to the climate crisis. He advises an electric vehicle charging start-up, itselectric, as they roll out on-street chargers powered by buildings in diverse urban neighborhoods. Recently Replogle served as an expert witness in support of thirteen youth plaintiffs who won a historic legal settlement with Hawaii’s Department of Transportation to ensure more timely progress in decarbonizing transportation by 2045.

From 2015-21, Replogle was Deputy Commissioner for Policy for the New York City Department of Transportation. There, his Vision Zero work cut pedestrian deaths by 40%. His decentralized, scalable Open Restaurants program design repurposed 10,000 parking spaces and saved 100,000 restaurant industry jobs during COVID. He oversaw CitiBike program expansion from 6,000 to 40,000 shared bikes and developed innovative freight, micromobility, carsharing, and electrification initiatives and plans.

In 2012, as co-founder and chair of the Partnership on Sustainable Low Carbon Transportation, he won a $175 billion 10-year commitment for more sustainable transport from the 8 largest multilateral development banks with reporting and monitoring. In 17 years as Transportation Director for the Environmental Defense Fund, Replogle managed campaigns to shift investment from roads to transit, walking, cycling, and Smart Growth and to help cities including New York, Portland (Oregon), Denver, Washington, DC, Mexico City, and Beijing enhance transportation planning and development of Bus Rapid Transit and congestion pricing. He spent a decade as transportation coordinator for Montgomery County, Maryland, pioneering sustainable transport scenario planning and innovations in transportation models. He has graduate civil and urban engineering and sociology degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He recently served as an Assistant Professor at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School for Public Service and as a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Transportation Sciences in Beijing.