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Colleen Gants

Co-President | National Transportation Sector Lead

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Keri Shoemaker

Co-President | East Coast Environmental Sector Lead

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Diana Steeble

Principal | National Healthcare Sector Lead

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Malika Klingler

Managing Principal

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Leadership Team

Diana Steeble
Diana Steeble

Principal | National Healthcare Sector Lead

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Greg Eppich
Greg Eppich

Senior Director of Creative & Marketing

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Kyana Wheeler
Kyana Wheeler

Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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Lynnette Bradbury
Lynnette Bradbury

Chief Financial Officer

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Lynsey Burgess
Lynsey Burgess

Senior Director

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Malika Klingler
Malika Klingler

Managing Principal

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Traceé Strum-Gilliam, AICP
Traceé Strum-Gilliam, AICP

Senior Director of East Coast Business Development | Transportation Sector Lead

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Alex Sobie
Alex Sobie

Design Director

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Brett Houghton
Brett Houghton

Director of Facilitation

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Chris Hernandez
Chris Hernandez

Creative Director

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Colleen Gants
Colleen Gants

Co-President | National Transportation Sector Lead

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Jennifer Rash
Jennifer Rash

Director, Transportation West

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Kate Gunby, Ph.D.
Kate Gunby, Ph.D.

Director of Research and Client Services

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Katherine Diers
Katherine Diers

Senior Associate Director

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Keri Shoemaker
Keri Shoemaker

Co-President | East Coast Environmental Sector Lead

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Kristen Bishop
Kristen Bishop

Director, PRR Portland

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Laura LaBissoniere Miller
Laura LaBissoniere Miller

Director

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Leigh-Ann Eng
Leigh-Ann Eng

Media Director

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Marshall Bell
Marshall Bell

Associate Director, Public Affairs Practice Lead

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May Sanders
May Sanders

Administrative Manager

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Miles Pomeroy
Miles Pomeroy

Director of IT

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Mindy Fitzgerald
Mindy Fitzgerald

Marketing Director

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Equity Team

Ayako Shapiro

Community Engagement Specialist

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Brit Anderson

Human Resources Associate

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Chris Hernandez

Creative Director

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Kyana Wheeler

Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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María Villarreal

Language Services Program Manager

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Michelle Auster

Community Engagement Specialist

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I’m an undercover transportation nerd, spending most of my time in my position as the construction communications manager for WSDOT’s I-405/SR 167 Megaprogram and as a strategic advisor on many construction projects around the Puget Sound Region. My role allows me the opportunity to meet face to face with stakeholders, elected officials and community members to keep them informed and up to date about some of the region’s largest transportation infrastructure projects. I’m an eastside native and can be found on the ski slopes in the winter, wake surfing on Lake Washington in the summer and jumping out of airplanes as a tandem skydiving instructor year-round!
Craig Smiley
Senior Consultant
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Community Engagement
I use translation and transcreation processes to adapt messages into Spanish. By making information available to our Limited English Proficiency (LEP) populations in their native language, we are creating a more inclusive society. In this sense, being a language specialist at PRR allows me to fulfill my passion for serving my community. Some of my previous volunteer work includes participating in Casa Latina’s Day Worker Center (DWC) arranging work placement opportunities for Latina/o immigrants; doing design work for Community To Community, an immigrant rights organization; and interpreting at the annual Seattle/King County Free Clinic. In my free time, I like hiking, traveling and taking trips up to Bellingham to visit family. I also like exploring new restaurants here in town and leaving—mainly good—reviews.
Daniel Ruiz
Senior Spanish Language Services Specialist & Community Engagement Specialist
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Community Engagement
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Language Services
Through my role as a Senior Community Engagement Specialist, I strive to center humanity in all our work. I bring a background in anti-racist practices, applying a racial equity lens to engagement frameworks and building connections between unlikely partners. I love that PRR culture includes a growth-mindset, which means my colleagues join me in introspection and learning every day. My work in the community extends to the performing arts and aiding in mother’s lifelong support of those suffering PTSD in the decades since the Balkan War. At home, I love reading fantasy novels and hanging out with my two cats and wonderful husband. If I’m not being a hermit, I’m out on the town with my queer community, my punk family, or my wonderful and vast array of friends.
Dayana "Dayo" Vice
Senior Community Engagement Specialist
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Community Engagement
I work by the motto: do it all to learn it all. This makes me a jack-of-all-trades in practice, though the best part of my job is coming up with creative new ways to engage the public. My role is enhanced through collaboration with my PRR colleagues, who inspire me to be more creative and think further outside the box. Outside the office, I love to hang out with my adopted Husky puppy, Swayze, or get my sweat on at a yoga or crossfit class.
Diana Barreto
Senior Consultant
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Community Engagement
Language Services
My first love in communications was food and nutrition work. Through my work at PRR, I broadened that focus to healthcare and other strategic communications work that can contribute to more equitable communities. Today, I also guide our client services, creative studio, and market development teams to make it meaningful in everything they do. I am very honored to have a place on PRWeek’s national “40 Under 40″ list (not saying which year!). I am also Past President of the Atlantic Street Center’s Board of Directors and proud former foster parent for cats at PAWS (I only kept two – Guillermo and Barack – as well as a pup named Quincy!).
Diana Steeble
Principal | National Healthcare Sector Lead
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I am a Social Media Specialist working as an extension of our MDOT MTA client on the Red Line project, a future high-frequency, high-capacity light rail line for the Baltimore region. Working at PRR, I am supported by great people who help me succeed and best serve our clients. Outside of work, I was a high school football coach for three seasons, which changed my life. I also enjoy writing and watching Green Bay Packers football.
Donald Whitaker
Social Media Specialist
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I help clients meaningfully communicate, engage, and collaborate with the communities they serve. PRR allows me to position for and support this community-focused work, with a great and open culture. Outside of my day-to-day work, I'm proud of my contributions to the design and administration of STEM curricula to local high schoolers. I also enjoy reading, hiking, yoga, and participating in my son’s school and sports activities.
Elisabeth McCollum
Senior Consultant
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Community Engagement
Social Marketing
As a Community Engagement Specialist, I evoke my urban planning and public policy background to understand and build relationships with communities served by our clients. I grew up in a tight-knit Seattle community and am passionate about uplifting voices historically overlooked in government planning and decision-making processes. PRR allows me to collaborate and problem-solve with a passionate team on projects that address intersecting issues in our region. As a consistent “jack of all trades, master of none,” I love discovering new activities to try. You will often find me experimenting in the kitchen, singing with friends, playing ultimate frisbee, reading an enjoyable book, playing board games, writing creative novels, or planning a future traveling adventure!
Emily Aoki Yamashita
Community Engagement Specialist
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Vision statement of anti-racism.

An anti-racist PRR dismantles systems of advantage based on race when and wherever possible. We engage staff of all racial identities in dismantling white supremacy culture at work. This  includes personal ideologies, beliefs, and behaviors. And, it includes removing white supremacy culture from the systems, cultural messages, institutional policies, procedures, and practices that PRR and our staff interact with and inform. We believe it is not enough to be “not racist.” We must be “anti-racist.”