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Katherine Freund is the founder and President of Independent Transportation Network of America (ITNAmerica). Katherine has a Master of Arts degree in Public Policy from the Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She Chaired the Task Force to Study the Safe Mobility of Maine’s Aging Population, served on the Advisory Committee for the 2005 White House Conference on Aging and as a National Transit Institute Fellow. She has served for twelve years on the Transportation Research Board’s Committee on the Safe Mobility of Seniors where she Co-chaired the Joint Subcommittee on Transportation Options for Seniors. In 2013, Katherine testified about ITNAmerica and sustainable senior transportation before the US Senate Special Committee on Aging. In her home state of Maine, she is a member the Senior Driver Safety Coalition.
Katherine is a 2012 Askoka Fellow. She was featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of the “12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement,” and on CNN’s “Breakthrough Women” series. She has received AARP’s Inspire Award, the Maxwell Pollack Award from the Gerontological Society of America, and the Social Enterprise Alliance award for Leadership in Innovative Enterprise Ideas. Katherine is also the recipient of the Access Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, the Archstone Award for Excellence in Program Innovation from the American Public Health Association, and the Giraffe Award for sticking her neck out for the common good.
In addition to 14 National Transit Institute Workshops, Katherine has participated in more than 150 national and international panels, conference sessions, and speaking engagements on alternative transportation for seniors. Her international speaking engagements have taken her to Australia, Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan to present ITN abroad. She lives in Portland, Maine, and has two adult children.
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Katherine is a 2012 Askoka Fellow. She was featured in the Wall Street Journal as one of the “12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement,” and on CNN’s “Breakthrough Women” series. She has received AARP’s Inspire Award, the Maxwell Pollack Award from the Gerontological Society of America, and the Social Enterprise Alliance award for Leadership in Innovative Enterprise Ideas. Katherine is also the recipient of the Access Award from the American Foundation for the Blind, the Archstone Award for Excellence in Program Innovation from the American Public Health Association, and the Giraffe Award for sticking her neck out for the common good.
In addition to 14 National Transit Institute Workshops, Katherine has participated in more than 150 national and international panels, conference sessions, and speaking engagements on alternative transportation for seniors. Her international speaking engagements have taken her to Australia, Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, Switzerland and Taiwan to present ITN abroad. She lives in Portland, Maine, and has two adult children.
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Sheryl Gross-Glaser is the Assistant Director of the Community Transportation Association of America. She writes for and performs technical assistance as the Assistant Director of the National Center for Mobility Management (NCMM). She also provides technical assistance for metropolitan planning organizations and researches innovations in transportation. Ms. Gross-Glaser offers guidance to transportation professionals about federal motor carrier regulation of interstate transit and transportation services, as well as anti-kickback regulations relating to transportation access to healthcare services.
Ms. Gross-Glaser develops and promotes NCMM trainings, resources, peer networking, workshops, webinars, and conferences. She provides technical assistance to MPOs, transit systems, medical facilities, human services agencies, and others to expand transportation options and improve public engagement. Ms. Gross-Glaser is the founding director of the Partnership for Mobility Management, which, under her leadership, has grown to over 1500 members. She writes the Mobility Management News and she works with national advocacy groups and professional associations that represent major stakeholders in public and human services transportation.
In her first career, Ms. Gross-Glaser was a criminal defense attorney at the appellate level and a manager and editor of publications for criminal defense attorneys. As a lawyer, Ms. Gross-Glaser won significant victories in New York’s highest court and in the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She has authored research reports on DNA evidence and eyewitness identifications as well as a host of forensic and procedural topics.
Ms. Gross-Glaser develops and promotes NCMM trainings, resources, peer networking, workshops, webinars, and conferences. She provides technical assistance to MPOs, transit systems, medical facilities, human services agencies, and others to expand transportation options and improve public engagement. Ms. Gross-Glaser is the founding director of the Partnership for Mobility Management, which, under her leadership, has grown to over 1500 members. She writes the Mobility Management News and she works with national advocacy groups and professional associations that represent major stakeholders in public and human services transportation.
In her first career, Ms. Gross-Glaser was a criminal defense attorney at the appellate level and a manager and editor of publications for criminal defense attorneys. As a lawyer, Ms. Gross-Glaser won significant victories in New York’s highest court and in the federal Second Circuit Court of Appeals. She has authored research reports on DNA evidence and eyewitness identifications as well as a host of forensic and procedural topics.
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Carol Schweiger, President of Schweiger Consulting, has 39 years of experience, and is nationally and internationally recognized in transportation technology consulting. Her wide-ranging and in-depth expertise is in several specialty areas including systems engineering, technology strategies for public agencies, public transit technology, and traveler information strategies and systems. Ms. Schweiger has:
Ms. Schweiger serves as Chairperson of New England ITS, the Co-Chair of the TRB Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies, a Charter Member of the Public Transportation Systems and Services (PTSS) Committee of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), and member of the Program Committee of the ITS World Congress and TRB ITS Committee.
She received an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Tufts University.
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- Provided over 50 transportation agencies with technology technical assistance.
- Co-developed and was the lead instructor for five transit technology training courses for the National Transit Institute (NTI).
- Developed and delivered (via webinar) six modules regarding transit technology standards.
- Authored numerous Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis reports and full TCRP reports.
Ms. Schweiger serves as Chairperson of New England ITS, the Co-Chair of the TRB Committee on Emerging and Innovative Public Transport and Technologies, a Charter Member of the Public Transportation Systems and Services (PTSS) Committee of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America), and member of the Program Committee of the ITS World Congress and TRB ITS Committee.
She received an M.S. in Civil Engineering from Cornell University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Tufts University.
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The last day to register for TransportationCamp Ithaca is June 14. Registration fee is $25. Students are $15.
Any questions? Contact:
Dwight Mengel, Chief Transportation Planner, Tompkins County DSS, dwight.mengel@dfa.state.ny.us, 607-274-5605
Any questions? Contact:
Dwight Mengel, Chief Transportation Planner, Tompkins County DSS, dwight.mengel@dfa.state.ny.us, 607-274-5605
