TRANSPORTATION 101
Alumni
The Transportation Alliance’s Transportation 101 course has graduated more than 200 students from all over Baltimore.
Here are some of our graduates, their action plans and projects they've worked on since completing our course.
Ruth Farfel
Ruth, through her work at the Fund for Educational Excellence, has been advocating for better public transit for Batlimore City Schools students.
Alice Huang
Alice is working on a Citywide Transportation Strategy for Food Access
Robin Redding
Robin has been advocating for traffic calming in her neighborhood in Northeast Baltimore.
Audrey Sellers
Audrey's action plan focused on improving access to transportation for people with disabilities in Anne Arundel County. Since she graduated in 2019, she has joined the staff of Disability Rights Maryland, where she continues to advocate for people with disabilities.
Brian Seel
Advocated for protected bike lanes in Baltimore City and developed TransitTrack at the Baltimore Hackathon.
Colin Hayward
Is working on a road diet and traffic calming for Orleans Street in Baltimore.
Chelsea Hayman
Chelsea is working with the Inclusive Transportation Committee under the Maryland Transit Administration and two Centers on Independent Living to administer a transportation survey of affordable housing buildings in Central Maryland.
Marlene Hendler
Marlene is a member of our first graduating class. As a result of Marlene's advocacy, in 2022 MTA approved a new bus connection between Howard County and Baltimore City to improve access for riders who commute between the two areas. The new route debuted in 2023.
David Drasin
David's action plan involved improving transit connections in Howard County.
Dan Knopp
Dan created a transportation data hub for his Transportation 101 classmates.
Lowell Larsson
Photo-mapped Baltimore's Light Rail stations to improve wayfinding for transit riders.
Logan Mitchell
Successfully advocated to have a bus top moved at the MARC station to improve rider transfers.
Emily Ranson
Emily is engaging environmentalists as transportation advocates.
Jacquie Greff
Produced a video series on how transportation impacts people’s lives. You can watch "Better Transportation for a Better Region" here.
Marion Vessels
Organized an Accessible Transportation Forum in Howard County in 2018.
Larry Schoen
Larry organized several safety walks in Howard County. These resulted in new traffic signal installations.
Tia Hopkins
Tia is supporting changes in Baltimore City law so that renters without cars don’t have to automatically pay for parking.
Raychel Santo
Launched a project to get Johns Hopkins University to give transit passes to its staff, faculty, and affiliates as an employee benefit.. The transit pass pilot debuted in 2023.
Maggie Fulcher
A longtime Mobility paratransit user, Maggie wrote a letter to Governor Hogan about the declining quality of Mobility service. She served on Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott's transition team and was recently quoted in a Baltimore Sun article about paratransit service.
Sachin Hebbar
Sachin is working to improve transit connectivity to grocery stores in Baltimore County.
Warren Wortman
Warren established a Complete Streets subcommittee for the Oakland Mills village board in Howard County, Md.
