Stephanie Pollack Email & Phone Number

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Washington, Dc, Us

Currently serves as Senior Advisor for BIL and Project Implementation in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) Pete Buttigieg at USDOT, helping to support, coordinate and improve implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the delivery of projects funded by BIL competitive grants. In this role she works as a colleague, change agent and catalyst to ensure that DOT achieves the strategic outcomes made possible by BIL’s historic level of infrastructure investment and USDOT’s growing portfolio of transformative, grant-funded projects in communities across the country. She works alongside colleagues and teams within OST and across the Operating Administrations, using data and streamlining processes to help improve DOT’s implementation of dozens of new competitive grant programs and management of thousands of projects funded by those programs.

Washington, Dc, Us

Named Deputy Administrator for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) on January 27, 2021 and, in the absence of a Senate-confirmed Administrator, served as Acting Administrator for most of 2021 and again for part of 2022. In this role, provides executive leadership and strategic direction to this 2,700-person agency whose budget grew to $70 billion annually with the passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). After helping to shape the policies and programs in the law, leads FHWA's efforts to implement BIL including four new formula funding programs as well as new discretionary grant programs. In the face of growing numbers of roadway fatalities, keeps all FHWA divisions and programs focused on roadway safety while broadening FHWA's work to fully embrace the climate and equity goals and priorities of the Biden-Harris Administration and US Department of Transportation.

Served for six years as Secretary & CEO of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and in the Cabinet of Governor Charlie Baker and Lieutenant Governor Karyn Polito. MassDOT is an integrated, multi-modal transportation agency with Highway, Rail and Transit, and Aeronautics Divisions and the Registry of Motor Vehicles. Served on Board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and after July 2015 oversaw the control board for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) which was responsible for the ongoing turnaround of the transit system serving eastern Massachusetts. As Secretary, • Focused MassDOT on improving customer experience with initiatives such as All-Electronic Tolling and reducing wait-times at the Registry of Motor Vehicles;• Oversaw development of MassDOT’s first asset management plans and statewide bicycle, pedestrian, freight and rail plans as well as Focus40, the 2040 Investment Plan for the MBTA;• Led efforts to establish project selection criteria and transform the five-year, $18.3 billion Capital Investment Plan into a multimodal investment portfolio focused on improving reliability for the traveling public by modernizing Massachusetts’ transportation assets;• Focused MassDOT on performance, establishing on online Tracker with 2- and 4-year performance targets for safety, customer experience, system condition and sustainable transportation; • Assisted more than 200 of Massachusetts’ 351 cities and towns to embrace Complete Streets by adopting policies, preparing prioritization plans and building Complete Streets projects, all for a five-year investment of $60 million;• Incorporated bicycle, pedestrian and later transit facilities into roadway design, requiring design exceptions for projects that do not meet requirements for accommodating all users; and• Harnessed data and research to inform comprehensive reports on topics including Congestion in the Commonwealth and the Future of Transportation in the Commonwealth.

Boston, Ma, Us

Served as Associate Director of the Kitty & Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University overseeing the Center’s transportation research agenda as well as conducting research projects in the areas of transportation, transit and transit-oriented development policy and sustainable and equitable development.• Professor of the Practice in the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, teaching courses in public policy strategies, transportation policy, housing policy and land use policy;• Principal investigator on a joint project with the Boston District Council of the Urban Land Institute on transit-oriented development, a joint project with A Better City on using transportation investment as a strategy for supporting metropolitan Boston’s life sciences cluster and a joint project with Action for Regional Equity on equitable transit-oriented development in greater Boston;• Collaborated with government agencies, business groups and advocacy organizations to translate research into policy, providing strategic leadership and research support for 2009 and 2013 transportation legislation in Massachusetts;• Developed performance metrics for mobility in the City of Boston, for the sustainability of local and regional transportation systems in Massachusetts and for equitable transit-oriented development;• Reshaped understanding of neighborhood change in transit-served neighborhoods and equity issues in transportation and transit-oriented development with ground-breaking research; • Provided strategic policy support services to philanthropic foundations, including updating The Boston Foundation’s Boston Indicators website in the areas of transportation, environment /energy and health and evaluating the Barr Foundation’s green design grant making; and• Synthesized and framed innovative policy approaches to issues of transportation, sustainability and equity for diverse audiences as an in-demand keynote speaker and workshop facilitator.

Solo strategic consulting practice advising non-profit, institutional, philanthropic and for-profit clients on transportation projects and policy, transit-oriented development and sustainable development issues. • Provided strategic transportation consulting services to clients including Partners HealthCare; and• Advanced long-term strategic planning and early action solutions for the Massachusetts Port Authority on challenges ranging from ground access to Logan Airport to transportation and real estate development in South Boston to revitalizing the maritime mission.

Partner in BlueWave Strategies, a strategic environmental consulting firm focused on advancing smart growth, transit-oriented development, brownfields redevelopment and “green” real estate projects. • Advised for-profit, not-for-profit and institutional developers on sustainability strategies for real estate projects with an emphasis on larger-scale smart growth and transit-oriented developments;• Led development of sustainability strategy, regulatory frameworks, permitting and infrastructure funding issues for the master developer of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station;• Facilitated settlement of longstanding environmental permitting dispute at Brayton Point power plant; and• Provided sustainability strategy and community and governmental outreach services for large-scale projects in the City of Boston including Jackson Square (a super green mixed-use/affordable housing development on the Roxbury/Jamaica Plain border).

Boston, Ma, Us

During nearly two decades at New England’s premier environmental advocacy organization, worked to catalyze policy change and change "on the ground" in Boston, in Massachusetts and throughout New England using both traditional litigation and opposition strategies as well as pro-active strategies to create positive examples of environmentally-responsible and equitable development. Worked on a broad range of issues including transportation and transit policy and planning, smart growth development, affordable housing, energy and climate, environmental health and lead poisoning prevention. • Held increasingly senior leadership positions including Vice President for Southern New England, Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Communications and Acting President;• Launched and directed the Lead Poisoning Prevention/Environmental Health, Transportation and Greater Boston Institute programs;• Crafted and executed comprehensive “campaign” strategies to achieve CLF objectives, particularly on issues of urban redevelopment and environmental health, that included both legal (litigation, legislative and regulatory) and non-legal (coalition/constituency building, media, and political outreach) components;• Litigated in state and federal court;• Drafted and successfully built coalitions for passage of environmental, housing and transit legislation, including MBTA forward funding legislation in 2000;• Developed and executed comprehensive regulatory, planning and coalition-building strategy to shape development and transportation planning for the South Boston waterfront; and• Led efforts to secure legislation and regulations addressing lead-based paint hazards at the state and later federal level, helping found two national advocacy groups working on healthy housing issues.

Clerked for chief judge of the federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Public Policy

Jd, Law

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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