President's Message - Spring 2025
Dear WTS-DC Chapter Members and Friends,
It has been a busy start of 2025 for our chapter. In March, we heard from a panel of distinguished leaders on Empowering Excellence: Building a Community of Support and Success and held a coffee chat with Laura Mason, WTS-DC’s 2024 Woman of the Year and Executive Vice President of Capital Delivery at Amtrak. In this rapidly changing environment, both events were powerful reminders of the importance of having a strong network and bold leadership to tackle new challenges.
WTS-DC provided a range of events this spring, from a professional development workshop on strengths to a bike tour of Alexandria. Our most recent event was a coffee chat featuring former California Transportation Secretary Davey Kim.
A large delegation from our chapter attended the 2025 WTS International Annual Conference, in May in Toronto, Canada. You can read their impressions from attending the excellent panels, technical tours and networking opportunities provided at the conference.
We have many more events planned for the summer, starting with a members-only networking event in June. We are also planning panel events with leaders across the modes and agencies, so please check our program calendar regularly.
I am always happy to talk about WTS and how we can improve what we do as a chapter, so please feel free to email me at [email protected] if you have any feedback or thoughts to share.
Wishing you all a good summer ahead,
Sophie Guiny
WTS-DC Chapter President