
Nadine Lee came into her position with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Office of Extraordinary Innovation two years ago after learning about its mission.
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Growing up in Panama City, Panama, Nuria Fernandez’s earliest experience with transit was riding what she calls the “rather unorthodox bus system” of her hometown.
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Dawn Distler’s involvement in the transportation industry began serendipitously.
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Ann Derby, director of marketing and events for INIT Innovations in Transportation Inc., got her start in education.
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With a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and a master’s in business administration, Alice Bravo graduated and hit the ground running. She began her professional career at design firm PBS&J (now called Atkins) in 1991 as a bridge designer and highway engineer.
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She is currently the longest-serving transit CEO in the nation. Her career with the authority spans 43 years, 32 of them as CATA’s CEO.
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Most recently, she served as acting administrator in the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration.
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When Nuria Fernandez was growing up in Panama, water was a big part of her world. In addition to living by the water, she spent a couple summers interning at one of the canal locks of the Panama Canal, a feat of engineering that her great-grandfather had helped to construct...
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Prior to joining the firm in 2006, Adams was with the Illinois Department of Transportation for 18 years as an employment specialist.
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Sue Dreier began her transit career on the ground floor as a part-time bus operator for Lane Transit District (LTD) in 1990 in Eugene, Ore., as she went back to school to earn her BA in public administration while also raising her two daughters.
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