Akshali Gandhi, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Awarded a Fulbright-Nehru fellowship to India to understand street design and its impact on children and caretakers, in conjunction with ITDP India, GDCI India, and Urban95 Pune. Funded by a U.S. State Department Fulbright-Nehru cultural exchange grant to advance diplomatic ties between the United States and foreign countries.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Project manager in the Transit Integration team launching Metro's new Transit Hubs Program, starting with our first pilot project, 12th and Jackson Transit Hub.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Transportation planner on the Connecting To Transit team, focusing on parking management, mobility hubs, and Safe Routes to Transit bike-walk program development. I helped launch Metro's first Paid Permit Parking.
• Eastgate Mobility Hub Planning
• Access to Transit, Rapid Ride K Line

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Planning Associate with the Transportation & Urban Design teams in MBI's Moon Township headquarters, focusing on traffic engineering and analysis, smart transit, planning studies, and business development.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Assisted on a variety of transit master plans, parking studies, multimodal, and TDM plans:
• Arlington County TDM Monitoring Studies (Building Surveys and Mode Share Analysis)
• Kansas City Swope Area Connectivity Study (Research and writing)
• Las Vegas High Capacity Transit Plan (Graphics, Research, and Stakeholder Engagement)
• New Orleans RTA Strategic Plan (Graphics, Outreach and Admin support)

Pittsburgh, PA

• Conducted planning and development review for the department of City Planning, including reviewing traffic impact studies, site plans, and street vacation requests. In long-range work, I co-authored the City's Complete.
• Pittsburgh Bike Plan
• Downtown to Oakland Bus Rapid Transit
• USDOT Smart Cities Competition proposal

New York City, NY

Assisted with transit planning, GIS mapping, engineering survey fieldwork, research, marketing, and data entry

Chicago, IL

Helped oversee the 2015 Local Technical Assistance program and Call for Projects serving communities in the seven-county CMAP region. In addition, I drafted portions of the Existing Conditions Report for the City of North Chicago's Comprehensive Plan, researched sustainability initiatives for the DuPage County Sustainability Plan, and worked on existing.

Chicago, IL

Provided technical support to a Midwest-based consulting firm, focusing on community outreach, past plans analysis, precedent research and GIS mapping for community plans and studies across the Midwest. The projects I assisted with covered communities in Illinois and Michigan.

Pittsburgh, PA

UDream Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s summer urban design program through the Remaking Cities Institute in the School of Architecture. After completing summer coursework at CMU, I interned for a non-profit neighborhood development organization (the Kingsley Association) in the East End of Pittsburgh focusing on neighborhood planning.

Greater Chicago Area

Completed a wide variety of transit-oriented policy projects, including report writing, data collection and analysis, field work, survey design, marketing, mapping, and memo writing for the City's Transportation, Engineering and Development department. My primary work consisted of analyzing bus ridership trends and the effectiveness of parking and transit.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Community And Regional Planning, International Studies

Activities and Societies: • George Washington Carver Scholar • University Honors Program • Study Abroad in Turkey and New Zealand

Master Of Regional Planning, City And Regional Planning

Activities and Societies: • Semester in New York City • First Place Team, Ed Bacon Urban Design Competition • Hon. Mention, APA Holzheimer.