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UC ITS Webinar: Partnering with Historically
Underserved Communities in Transportation Planning
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Thursday, June 10, 2021
10:00 a.m. -
11:30 a.m. PDT
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This webinar will provide transportation professionals
with recommendations and best practices in partnering in
transportation planning with historically underserved communities.
Transportation agencies are seeking more dynamic ways of engaging
with historically underserved communities in planning processes. This
webinar will present ten key practices for successful engagement with
historically underserved communities. These practices were identified
through a study of four successful community engagement processes in
California centered on transportation. Each process involved robust
planning with the community, which resulted in outcomes that better
met community needs. This webinar will be of interest to
professionals and researchers wishing to rethink the role of
community expertise in planning and growing their commitment to
transportation equity.
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Sarah Rebolloso McCullough
Associate
Director, Feminist Research Institute
University
of California, Davis
Sarah
Rebolloso McCullough, Ph.D. conducts sociocultural research on
mobility justice and transportation equity, particularly as it
relates to sustainable and active transportation. She has a
Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from UC Davis and is the Associate
Director at the Feminist Research Institute. She is an
affiliated faculty in Science & Technology Studies and the
Institute for Transportation Studies. McCullough also leads a
National Science Foundation project that integrates
justice-oriented frameworks into STEM research. She is applies
her expertise in ethnographic methods, discourse and power
analysis, and science & technology studies to create trainings,
programming, and research partnerships between STEM
researchers, community partners, and cultural scholars.
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Chanell Fletcher
(Guest Respondent)
Deputy
Executive Officer of Environmental Justice
California
Air Resources Board
Chanell
Fletcher was appointed to the position of Deputy Executive
Officer of Environmental Justice in January 2021. Ms. Fletcher
oversees CARB’s Environmental Justice and Community Air
Protection Program and is responsible for developing CARB-wide
environmental justice policies. She plays a key role in CARB’s
programs designed to address disproportionate impacts from air
pollution and climate change and associated chronic health
conditions affecting Black, Latinx and other communities of
color across the state. Ms. Fletcher is the executive lead for
AB 617 and its related programs. She is focused on moving away
from a top-down equity model to one that centers on building
relationships and trust with partners in the environmental and
racial justice movement at the community level. Prior to
joining CARB, Ms. Fletcher served as Executive Director of
ClimatePlan. She also served as Senior Policy Manager for the
Safe Routes to Schools National Partnership.
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Dr. Susan Handy
(Moderator)
Director,
National Center for Sustainable Transportation Professor,
Environmental Science and Policy
University
of California, Davis
Susan
Handy is the Director of the National Center for Sustainable
Transportation and a Professor in the Department of
Environmental Science and Policy at UC Davis. Dr. Handy's
research focuses on the relationships between transportation
and land use and on strategies for reducing automobile
dependence. Her recent work includes a series of studies on
bicycling in Davis, including an exploration of the formation
of attitudes towards bicycling, a study of factors affecting
bicycling to high school, and the use of electric-assist bicycles.
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The UC Institute of Transportation Studies (UC
ITS) is a network of faculty, research and administrative
staff, and students dedicated to advancing the state of the art
in transportation engineering, planning, and policy for the
people of California. Established by the Legislature in 1947,
the UC ITS has branches at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine,
and UCLA. Research featured in this webinar was made possible
through funding received from the State of California through
the Public Transportation Account and the Road Repair and
Accountability Act of 2017 (Senate Bill 1).
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