LivableStreets Alliance welcomes new staff member, Jacqueline Douglas!
LivableStreets Alliance welcomes new staff member, Jacqueline Douglas!
The Board of Directors of LivableStreets Alliance is thrilled to announce that Jacqueline Douglas has been hired as Transportation Advocate, our first full-time staff person! Jackie is responsible for our outreach program, the content for our new website, day-to-day organizational management, and advocating for the changes we all want to see.
Last spring, during her final semester at Boston University, Jackie was an intern for LivableStreets. She proved to be such a tremendous asset to the organization, that we knew we needed to find a way to bring her on board once she graduated. Her position is currently funded through January 2009 by the LivableStreets Founders Circle, and we will be kicking off an intensive fundraising effort next month to enable us to continue funding her position through the next year and beyond.
Jackie's interest in transportation began after having lived for three years in the Netherlands, where she and her family cycled everywhere. She believes that improving our streets and public transportation system does more than change how people get to and from places, it is a broader change in their way of life. "I want to promote better street design to strengthen community, improve public health, and address climate change," she says.
Last May, Jackie graduated from BU, with a self- designed major to study the forces that shape why people are the way they are, looking in depth at factors such as their development, the policies that shape them, and the particular issues they face. She completed graduate Urban Design and Public Health courses to study the ways in which the built environment shapes people. She also spent a year studying abroad in the UK, Tanzania, India, New Zealand and Mexico through the International Honors Program "Rethinking Globalization." Jackie believes that her time abroad has opened her eyes to alternative practices, and hopes to incorporate some of these experiences into her work at LivableStreets Alliance.
Jackie has experience in the fields of public policy, community development and marketing from her time working at Earth Pledge, Westchester Children's Association, the Cause Marketing Forum, and Ten Second World. She has also been a member of the Better School Food Coalition Advisory Board and the International Rescue Committee Student Advisory Board, and she is currently a member of the Interdisciplinary Consortium on Urban Planning and Public Health through the Harvard School of Public Health.
If you have the opportunity, please introduce yourself and welcome her to her new position. Jackie can be reached by e-mail at jackie@livablestreets.info or by phone at (617) 621- 1746.
>> Also, if you missed the last e-bulletin, there were several recent Boston Globe articles where LivableStreets Alliance board members were quoted, including "The Future of Crossing the Street," "Rethinking Boston's Mass. Ave.," and "Staying stylish on two wheels." Click here to check them out.
>> And don't miss our next StreetTALK on Thu. Sept. 25 at 7pm, "Using Transportation to Transform Communities: Learning from the Anti Highway Movement of the 1960's" by Ken Kruckemeyer and Ann Hershfang. Boston was the first city to stop several federal highways in the 1960's that would have cut through Jamaica Plain, South End, and Cambridgeport. Meet some of the individuals who made this happen and hear their stories. Click here for more info.
Best Regards,
LivableStreets Alliance Board of Directors
Jeffrey L. Rosenblum, PE (co-founder and president of the board)
Larry Slotnick (co-founder)
Charlie Denison (advocacy committee chair)
Dorothy Fennell (streetTALK coordinator)
Phil Goff (street design specialist)
Christopher Hart (human centered design specialist)
Kenneth Kruckemeyer (urban planning specialist)
Debi Levine
Steven Miller (public health & transportation committee chair)
Scott Mullen
Bhupesh Patel (Transit Oriented Development specialist)
Nina Garfinkle (Graphic design and branding specialist)