WTS International is pleased to announce the 2025 Recognition Award Recipients! We look forward to celebrating this year’s award winners at the WTSI and WTS Foundation Scholarship and Awards Gala, held during the 2025 WTSI Annual Conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 7th to 9th. Join us in congratulating these outstanding awardees!

2025 Recognition Award Recipients

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Woman of the Year 

Cassaundra Rouse, Executive Director, Illinois Tollway

 

 

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Member of the Year

Alexa Gangemi, WTSI Board of Directors 2024-2026, Vice President and Senior Project Manager, HNTB

 

 

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Employer of the Year 

Jacobs

 

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Innovative Transportation Solutions Award 

Sarah Searcy, Emerging Technologies and Innovation Manager, North Carolina Department of Transportation

 

 

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Rosa Parks Diversity Leadership Award

Genoveva Arellano, Owner and Principal, Arellano Associates

 

 

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Honorable Ray LaHood Award

David Didier, Chief Operating Officer - East Region, AECOM

 

 

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Mary Peters Inspirational Leader Award

Mary Jane O’Meara, Vice President and National Tolling Representative, HNTB