Candace Cable

Candace Cable consults with business and organizations on design opportunities that will include everyone. She uses her four decades as a historian, curriculum creator, speaker, writer, Paralympic and Olympic athlete and governance careers, and her Community and Human Rights advocacy to affect and change the status quo and culture. Her work supports our worldwide collective liberation and inclusion of her beloved Disability Community of which she has been a member since 1975.

Ann Cheng

Ann Cheng is a planner focused on equitable transit oriented development, parking policy and community engagement transformation. She created www.GreenTRIP.org to catalyze low-traffic and parking housing through market and data tools adopted through the Bay Area and California. She currently consults on projects across the Bay Area to advance transit oriented communities with community, to grow and empower local leadership and serving as a Board Member for the Parking Reform Network.

Supervisor Janice Hahn

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn joined the Metro Board of Directors in 2017, and since July has served as its Chair. From long-term goals like expanding transit options for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games and bringing an overdue rail connection to the Southeast LA County communities she represents, to addressing urgent safety concerns today by installing physical barriers to protect bus operators and implementing a weapons detection pilot program now in its 2nd phase, Hahn has championed making Metro safer and more responsive to the needs of the hundreds of thousands of riders who depend on it, and the operators and staff who make it run.

Before joining the Board of Supervisors, Hahn served in Congress and on the L.A. City Council, where she has worked to expand access to mental healthcare, get guns off our streets, invest in our parks and libraries, and help guide our region through some of its toughest challenges.

Ken Husting

Ken Husting is the Principal Transportation Engineer for LADOT’s Parking Management. He is responsible for five parking divisions: Adjudication, Facilities, Meters, Operations, and Permits. Ken leads a team of over 100 engineering, technical and administrative staff charged with managing and maintaining citywide parking operations and infrastructure assets, including 111 parking facilities and 35,000 metered spaces and pay stations. His responsibility includes managing a combined annual revenue of $200 million from parking facilities, meters, and citations.

Jody Litvak

Jody Litvak is a Senior Fellow with UCLA’s Institute of Transportation Studies. She has over 35 years experience delivering major transportation and infrastructure projects and policies across greater Los Angeles, including as an Executive Officer at LA Metro. She is known for innovating community engagement tactics for planning, and has successfully developed and implemented strategies to build alliances and coalitions among public officials, opinion leaders and diverse stakeholders, often with competing interests. She has frequently been asked to present and guest lecture on these topics and is a long-time adviser to UCLA ITS for the annual Arrowhead Symposium. Early in her career, she worked for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee helping to deliver the 1984 Olympic Games.

Jill Locantore

Jill Locantore is Executive Director for the Denver Streets Partnership, which advocates for the cultural and systemic changes necessary to reduce Denver’s unsustainable dependence on cars and to design communities that put people first. Previously, Jill was the Executive Director of the pedestrian advocacy organization WalkDenver, and also worked for the Denver Regional Council of Governments and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, where she supported regional efforts to coordinate land use and transportation planning.

Michael Manville

Michael Manville is Professor and Chair of the Department of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Juan Matute

Juan Matute, Deputy Director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS), leads research initiatives that bridge the gap between academic inquiry and practical transportation decision-making. As Deputy Director, Juan Matute leads UCLA ITS’s annual UCLA Arrowhead Symposium on urban and regional planning and is the Program Manager for the national Center of Excellence on New Mobility and Automated Vehicles.

At UCLA ITS, Juan spearheads research projects that delve into public transit, transportation finance, and governance. His interdisciplinary approach, rooted in problem-solving and systems thinking, enables him to unravel complex transportation challenges and develop effective solutions.

Juan’s dedication to public service extends beyond UCLA. He actively serves on various state, regional, and city committees, contributing his expertise to initiatives such as the Transit Transformation Task Force, Open Data/Big Data – Smart, and Connected SCAG Region Committee. Juan’s involvement in working groups and boards, such as the Los Angeles Parking Reform Working Group and the Downtown Santa Monica, Inc. Board of Directors, demonstrates his commitment to improving transportation systems at the local level.

Juan’s passion for transportation extends to the classroom, where he has taught numerous courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels at UCLA. His courses cover a wide range of topics, including transportation, environmental assessment, and climate planning.

Juan holds an MBA and Urban Planning MA from UCLA and a BA from Pomona College. He lives in Santa Monica, CA., where he and his wife Sirinya bike, walk, and use transit regularly with their son.

Jessica Meaney

Jessica Meaney is the founder and executive director of Investing in Place, a leading voice for reimagining Los Angeles’ public realm—sidewalks, streets, and infrastructure. For two decades, Jessica has led efforts in LA to promote inclusive decision-making and equitable resource allocation in public works and transportation funding to create accessible and well maintained public spaces that enhance quality of life.

Adam Millard-Ball

Adam Millard-Ball is professor of urban planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, and affiliated faculty at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. His research and teaching focus on transportation and climate change, and on how data science can support urban planning research and practice.

Jim Newton

Jim Newton is a veteran Los Angeles journalist and the founding editor of UCLA’s Blueprint magazine. Also an author, his biography of Jerry Garcia will be released by Random House on Aug. 5.

Seleta Reynolds

Seleta has 25 years of experience in transportation in both the public and private sector. As CIO of LA Metro, her responsibilities include delivering the mobility program for the 28 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as a mobility wallet and a strategy for transitioning the agency to a Zero Emission Bus fleet. Formerly, she was the General Manager for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation where she launched Vision Zero, a goal to get to zero traffic deaths, in Los Angeles after leading a similar effort in San Francisco. She is the founding chair of the Open Mobility Foundation, an open-source project to build digital infrastructure for the public realm and serves on the Executive Committee of the ITS America Board of Directors.

Daniel Rodman

Daniel Rodman is a senior member of the City of Los Angeles Office of Major Events, where he coordinates the city’s work on planning, operations, and legacy for the 2028 Olympic & Paralympic Games and 2026 FIFA World Cup. Dan works collaboratively with City departments and key stakeholders to deliver mega-events that are safe, successful, and fiscally responsible while maximizing economic opportunity and legacy investments for all Angelenos. Previously, Dan served as Deputy Director of Transportation for the LA Mayor’s Office and as a social worker with Street to Home Manhattan. Dan holds a master’s in urban and regional planning from UCLA and a bachelor’s from NYU.

Natalie Sparrow

Natalie Sparrow is the City of Los Angeles’s ADA Coordinator for the Pedestrian Rights of Way, the city’s primary administrator on disability access for public pedestrian facilities. Her work spans across multiple city departments and includes policy development, oversight of technical compliance, and managing the fulfillment of the City’s $1.4-billion Willits Settlement Agreement. Natalie brings a wealth of knowledge to uniquely support this moment for the city and its residents, including 8 years of experience managing the accessibility of large scale temporary events and lived experience of disability as a child. Natalie is a Certified Access Specialist (CASp) and Certified ADA Coordinator. She has earned a Master’s degree in Public Health from Tulane University.

Greg Spotts

Greg Spotts most recently served as Director of the Seattle Department of Transportation (September 2022 through February 2025). Previously, Greg served the City of Los Angeles in various capacities from 2009-2022, including Director of Transportation Project Delivery for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Assistant Director and Chief Sustainability Officer for StreetsLA.

Nithya Raman

Nithya Raman (RAH-men) is an urban planner, a mother of two, an immigrant to America, and a member of the Los Angeles City Council representing District 4. She ran for City Council in 2020 and won a historic victory, becoming the first Asian American woman and the first South Asian ever to serve on the City Council. In March 2024, she was elected to her second term. Since taking office, Councilmember Raman has prioritized delivering people-centered and effective services for people experiencing homelessness, building more affordable housing, and moving with greater urgency to meet our city’s climate goals. She serves as Chair of the Housing and Homelessness Committee, Vice Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Governance Reform, and member of the Transportation and Energy and Environment Committees. She also represents Los Angeles on the Governing Board of the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and was recently nominated by Mayor Karen Bass to serve as Vice Chair on the LA County Executive Committee for Regional Homeless Alignment.