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DBE Owners

Colleen Gants

Co-President | National Transportation Sector Lead

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Keri Shoemaker

Co-President | East Coast Environmental Sector Lead

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Diana Steeble

Principal | National Healthcare Sector Lead

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Leadership Team

Diana Steeble
Diana Steeble

Principal | National Healthcare Sector Lead

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Greg Eppich
Greg Eppich

Senior Director of Creative & Marketing

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Kyana Wheeler
Kyana Wheeler

Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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Lynnette Bradbury
Lynnette Bradbury

Chief Financial Officer

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Lynsey Burgess
Lynsey Burgess

Senior Director

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Traceé Strum-Gilliam, AICP
Traceé Strum-Gilliam, AICP

Senior Director of East Coast Business Development | Transportation Sector Lead

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Alex Sobie
Alex Sobie

Design Director

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Brett Houghton
Brett Houghton

Director of Facilitation

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Chris Hernandez
Chris Hernandez

Creative Director

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Colleen Gants
Colleen Gants

Co-President | National Transportation Sector Lead

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Jennifer Rash
Jennifer Rash

Director, Transportation West

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Kate Gunby, Ph.D.
Kate Gunby, Ph.D.

Director of Research and Client Services

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Katherine Diers
Katherine Diers

Senior Associate Director

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Keri Shoemaker
Keri Shoemaker

Co-President | East Coast Environmental Sector Lead

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Kristen Bishop
Kristen Bishop

Director, PRR Portland

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Laura LaBissoniere Miller
Laura LaBissoniere Miller

Director

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Leigh-Ann Eng
Leigh-Ann Eng

Media Director

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Marshall Bell
Marshall Bell

Associate Director, Public Affairs Practice Lead

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May Sanders
May Sanders

Administrative Manager

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Miles Pomeroy
Miles Pomeroy

Director of IT

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Mindy Fitzgerald
Mindy Fitzgerald

Marketing Director

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Equity Team

Ayako Shapiro

Community Engagement Specialist

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Brit Anderson

Human Resources Associate

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Chris Hernandez

Creative Director

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Kyana Wheeler

Senior Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

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María Villarreal

Language Services Program Manager

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Michelle Auster

Community Engagement Specialist

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By day, I’m a civic innovator, specializing in human-centered design and strategic communications for the public sector. As a Social Marketing Account Manager at PRR, I work with our clients to help them effectively connect, communicate, and engage with their customers and constituents through strategic communications and marketing. I use a human-centered focus to develop marketing and communications materials that reach our client’s audiences where they are. Using experience-design informed methods, I help PRR’s clients create positive public impact through marketing strategies, community engagement, and workshop facilitation. By night, I'm a travel content creator and planner, sharing my experiences with local communities across the world and helping others to have those experiences too. On my travel blog, discoverwithsam.com, I explore and highlight social impact travel experiences, find local hidden gems, and support small businesses. I love helping people experience the world through a connection to the local wherever they are.
Samantha Linnett
Social Marketing Account Manager
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Social Marketing
I help connect people with the projects planned in their communities so that their values, concerns, and priorities are considered and reflected in the outcome. Engagement looks different with every community and every project, but my day-to-day generally involves a lot of writing – e-newsletters, stories, postcards – and listening, whether at project open houses or community listening sessions. By connecting with people through this work, I feel connected to – and engaged with – what’s going on in my own community. I also really love learning about things I wouldn’t otherwise, like how a water main gets replaced or how neighborhood systems function behind the scenes. I’m passionate about walkable cities, and I’m an avid pedestrian. My favorite way to get to know a place is to walk around it, ideally with an audiobook playing and a couple stops to check out local coffee shops and restaurants.
Sarah Rose Ezelle
Community Engagement Specialist
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Community Engagement
I help our PRR staff troubleshoot technical issues, and work with our teams to ensure our evolving technology practices and tools are intuitive. This role provides the opportunity to work on a spectrum of issues, and I also love the diversity and inclusivity PRR strives to achieve every day. In my off time, I've spent 13 years perfecting my meat and vegetable rub (I believe it could challenge a Tom Douglas rub any day of the week) and I enjoy hosting friends for full-day smoked meat sessions (brisket, pork shoulder, chicken thighs, you name it!).
Scott Burns
Computer Systems Analyst
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Operations
As a visual designer, I’m excited to dive into interesting projects at PRR and learn more about the role of design within government channels. Exploring how design intersects with areas like transportation and community outreach is especially intriguing. I love graphic design because it’s the perfect intersection of art and strategy. Even when creating art for myself, I strive to infuse it with a theme, a metaphor, or an overarching idea, giving it deeper meaning. What excites me most is working on something creative every day, using knowledge and research to piece together a cohesive and meaningful design. One of my favorite activities outside of work is playing Dungeons & Dragons with friends. At its core, D&D is about a group of people coming together, each with a character which acts as a set of personal parameters, to create a collaborative story. It’s your job to not only know your character but be open to learning about others while simultaneously navigating challenging questions and solving difficult problems together. I truly value the soft skills this experience has given me, especially when working on projects that involve multiple voices and perspectives. I also love reading fantasy novels, drawing/painting, and gaming.
Seth Marney
Graphic Designer
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Creative Studio
As a Research Analyst, I work with data and conduct analysis with an eye toward building structures to support work in the long term. I support analysis and reporting, particularly for projects with strong quantitative elements, and develop resources to strengthen data processing and analysis across PRR’s Research team. At PRR, I have the freedom to ask meaningful questions and to think critically about the work we do. Outside of work, I'm a founding member of the youth leadership team at a local community organization where I facilitate a monthly discussion group for teens and young adults. When I’m not working or volunteering, I’m often going to medieval reenactment events, practicing medieval sword-fighting, competing in armored combat tournaments, researching and performing early music, and spending time with my family.
Shay McCombs
Research Analyst
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Research
I partner with my clients to strategically plan and execute communications and meaningful engagement for large infrastructure projects and mega-programs. Anything from tunnel boring to bridge demolition. As a generalist at heart, I get to use a broad skill set in both soft and technical skills in my work at PRR, and I’m constantly learning. Personally, I care a lot about encouraging people to participate in local government. I once helped more than 750 people register to vote in one primary season. When I’m not at work, you can find me searching for the best places to eat in south/west Seattle, tending to my garden, and going on adventures with my partner, Mik, and my dog, Korra.
Sidney Orr
Community Engagement Specialist
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Community Engagement
My work at PRR helps amplify the voices of community members and creates opportunities for them to better understand and stay involved with projects that affect them. When I’m not working, I enjoy volunteering with the Seattle Animal Shelter where I serve as a foster parent for dogs. I’m a big animal person and feel proud to work with all the lovely dogs looking for homes. In my personal time, I love listening to music and curating the perfect playlist or spending time outside whenever we get a little bit of sun in Seattle!
Sophie Muza
Community Engagement Coordinator
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Community Engagement
As a Senior Research Coordinator at PRR, my business is telling stories. I leverage PRR's research and data landscape to build localized, participant-driven, evidence-based narratives that center the diversity and complexity of our local communities, that highlight our participants’ lived experiences, that resonate for a range of audiences, and that motivate actionable change. Issues surrounding equity and inclusion are the “guiding stars” that have anchored my professional development, and I’m delighted to bring that orientation to PRR, knowing that the work we do is helping to make our communities more inclusive, accessible, and dynamic. Outside of work, I help to direct an inclusive community theatre program at the Federal Way Community Center, coach bowling for Special Olympics, spend lots of time building community with queer and neurodivergent folks, and am deeply enthused about all things craft-adjacent (knitting; sewing; 3D printing; papercraft; sublimation).
Spencer Garrison
Senior Research Coordinator
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An anti-racist PRR dismantles systems of advantage based on race when and wherever possible. We engage staff of all racial identities in dismantling white supremacy culture at work. This  includes personal ideologies, beliefs, and behaviors. And, it includes removing white supremacy culture from the systems, cultural messages, institutional policies, procedures, and practices that PRR and our staff interact with and inform. We believe it is not enough to be “not racist.” We must be “anti-racist.”