2023 Distinguished Speaker Series
2023 WTS Distinguished Speaker Series
The WTS International 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series highlights the voices of top-level experts, speakers, authors, and academics, speaking on topics crucial to equity diversity, and access in transportation. WTS members, partners, and transportation stakeholders will learn about the history of travel, social justice, designing equitable infrastructure, gender-based policy and research, civil service, and much more.
Pricing:
$35 | WTS Members
$95 | Non-members
$15 | Students
These sessions are eligible for CM credits from APA.
October 19, 2023 | 1–2:30 PM ET
VERONICA O. DAVIS, PE
Engineer, transportation expert, and AUTHOR: Inclusive transportation: a manifesto for repairing divided communities
Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities shines a light on the inequitable and often destructive practices of transportation planning and engineering. Davis' book calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks that connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other. Join 2023 WTS International's Rosa Parks Diversity Award recipient Veronica O. Davis, PE as she discusses her career and newest publication.
PAST SESSIONS
February 17, 2023
Dr. Mia Bay
American Historian and Author, Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
March 8, 2023
Dr. MISSY CUMMINGS
U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot; former Safety Adviser, NHTSA; and Scholar
July 27, 2023
Sarah M. Kaufman
Interim Director, NYU Rudin Center for Transportation
Questions? Contact [email protected].