WTS International

Monday Member Meet Ups:

Professionals + Young Professionals

Monday, September 25, 2023

Zoom, 1:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Zoom, 1:00 p.m.

$35 Registration Fee

2023 WTS International Chapter Leadership Development



Submit Your Abstracts!

Call for Abstracts Now Open: 2023 CLD in Newport Beach

Do you have a success story you would you like to share with WTS Chapter leader peers? Submit your ideas for consideration for the #WTSCLD2023 program! Learn from one another and gather new, innovative ideas to implement in your own Chapter.

The following topics serve as general themes for breakout session content abstract submissions:

• Managing Board Dynamics and Running Effective Board Meetings
• Creating Welcoming & Inclusive Environments
• Delivering Content and Programming Creatively
• Effective Communications with Your Members
• Growing a Diverse Membership

Guidelines and Information:

• Submissions must outline an abstract of the program, plan, or activity your chapter has successfully implemented, with the best practices you'll be sharing. 
• Presentations will be 30 minutes in length (20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes for Q&A).
• No more than 3 presenters per abstract.

Selection Criteria Includes:

• Submission highlights key takeaways for your audience.
• Abstract reflects a fully developed and executed plan or activity, and highlights the lessons learned to be presented to other chapter leaders.
• Submission is a unique topic not covered in other CLD sessions; or able to illustrate other session topics effectively.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

Submissions are due by Friday, September 29, 2023.

Notifications will be delivered by Monday, October 16, 2023.

Save the Date!

Mark your calendars for the Fall Professional Development Program with Dr. Daniele Lyman-Torres on October 19!

The WTS Distinguished Speaker Series Presents:

Veronica O. Davis, PE

The WTS International 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series highlights the voices of top-level experts, speakers, authors, and academics discussing topics crucial to equity, diversity, and access in transportation.

Join us for our fourth installment of the series on October 19th, 2023 to hear from Veronica O. Davis, PE — engineer, transportation expert, author, and WTS International's 2023 Rosa Parks Diversity Award recipient.

Ms. Davis is the author of Inclusive Transportation: A Manifesto for Repairing Divided Communities, which shines a light on the inequitable and destructive practices of transportation planning and engineering and calls for new thinking and more diverse leadership to create transportation networks which connect people to jobs, education, opportunities, and to each other.

A self-described "transportation nerd," Davis holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and master's degree in engineering management from Cornell University. In 2009, she co-founded Nspiregreen, LLC, a planning firm dedicated to managing major transportation sectors and functions such as transportation planning, transit-oriented development, master planning, policy development, and long-range planning, and more. In 2012, she was recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House for her professional accomplishments and community advocacy, which includes co-founding Black Women Bike.

Today, Davis is the Director of Transportation & Drainage Operations at the City of Houston Public Works, where she oversees 900 employees, 15,000 lane miles, and over 1 million traffic lights. She is responsible for maintaining and improving the infrastructure that spans all 671 square miles of Houston, Texas, which includes, among other plans, the implementation of new projects designed to increase safety of bike lanes and sidewalks for school-going children and people with disabilities.

Don't miss out on Ms. Davis' thoughts on the importance of diversity and representation in the future of the workforce and transportation policies — register now.

WTS Distinguished Speaker Series Webinar: Veronica O. Davis, PE

Thursday, October 19th, 2023 | 1–2:30 p.m. ET

DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT (DART), PROGRAM MANAGER II

Performs complex business, financial, administrative functions for the Executive Office. Assignments involve work of a confidential nature, necessitating exposure to sensitive information and contacts requiring discretion, judgment, tact and diplomacy.