Sarah will be working on the Healthy Here initiative with a focus on active transportation, the built environment and public health in the International District and the South Valley.  Sarah's experience in regional and community planning includes over 12 years of managing land use and transportation planning projects for public agency clients in urban and rural communities throughout New Mexico and Southern Colorado.  Sarah completed her masters of community and regional planning at UNM with an emphasis in the built environment and eventually became a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.  She was born and grew up in Los Alamos, fled to other parts of the world but kept returning to New Mexico over and over again. She recently returned to Albuquerque, after living in Santa Fe, and looks forward to slipping back into Burqueño lifestyle.

 

Jon will perform research and quantitative analysis related to social demography and the economy with an emphasis on transportation and land use planning issues. Jon grew up in Albuquerque, where he attended La Cueva High School and earned a bachelor's degree at the University of New Mexico. Jon started his career at Sandia National Laboratories and later earned an MBA with a concentration in Finance at Arizona State University. He moved into roles as a Research Specialist and a Transit Route Analyst at the City of Albuquerque after graduate school and recently was an Economist at the State of New Mexico. Jon's professional interests include financial analysis, ArcGIS mapping of demographic data, and forecasting transit ridership based on retail gasoline prices and population growth.  

MRMPO is pleased to add Sarah and Jon to its transportation planning team!  They can be reached by email at sijadi@mrcog-nm.gov  and jblaich@mrcog-nm.gov  or by phone at  505-724-3603 (Sarah) and  505-247-1750 (Jon).