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Guest on The Infra Blog: Maya Wiley, Director, Center for Social Inclusion

Monday, March 28th, 2011
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Maya Wiley is the founder and Executive Director of the Center for Social Inclusion…She was a contributing author to the National Urban League’s 2006 State of Black America, and authored a chapter on Race, Equity and Land Use Planning in Columbia, South Carolina recently published in Growing Smarter: Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice and Regional Equity, R. Bullard, ed. The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA (2007). She was named a NY Moves magazine 2009 Power Woman.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Francisca Coronado Porchas, National Coordinator, Transit Riders for Public Transportation

Friday, March 25th, 2011
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Francisca Coronado Porchas is the National Coordinator for the Transit Riders for Public Transportation.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Hon. Edward G. Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania & Co-Chair of Building America’s Future

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
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Edward G. Rendell, Pennsylvania’s 45th Governor, began a second term of office on January 16, 2007, following a landslide re-election victory. As Governor, Rendell served as chief executive of the nation’s 6th-most-populous state and oversaw a $27.5 billion budget. Governor Rendell is also Co-Chair of Building America’s Future, alongside Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California.

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House T&I Committee’s FY 2012 “Views and Estimates” Offers a First Glimpse Into the Committee’s Thinking About the Future Transportation Program

Monday, March 21st, 2011

Innovation NewsBriefs Vol. 22, No. 9 Reproduced below are some key quotes from a recently released House T&I Committee document, “Views and Estimates for Fiscal Year 2012.” They offer a first indication of the Committee’s position on the FY 2012 surface transportation budget and the reauthorization bill. The report confirms what congressional sources have been […]

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Brian Depew, Assistant Executive Director & Rural Organizing and Outreach Program Director, Center for Rural Affairs

Monday, March 21st, 2011
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Brian Depew directs the Rural Organizing & Outreach Program at the Center for Rural Affairs in Lyons, Nebraska where he works to influence state and federal legislation to strengthen rural communities and family farm agriculture. Brian grew up on a family farm in rural Northwest Iowa. He was active in the operation of the farm […]

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Damon Silvers, Director of Policy & Special Counsel, AFL-CIO

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
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Damon Silvers is the Director of Policy & Special Counsel for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). He is also a member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Standing Advisory Group and the Financial Accounting Standards Board User Advisory Council.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Marc Morial, President & CEO, National Urban League, and former Mayor of New Orleans

Friday, March 11th, 2011
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As President of the National Urban League since 2003 Marc Morial has been the primary catalyst for an era of change — a transformation for the 100 year old civil rights organization. As Mayor of New Orleans, he was a popular chief executive with a broad multi-racial coalition who led New Orleans’ 1990’s renaissance, and left office with a 70% approval rating.

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The Look and Feel of the New Congress

Wednesday, March 9th, 2011

In my 22 years of covering the transportation scene, I cannot recall a time when we’ve been faced with a more unsettled and volatile policy environment. In the past, the trajectory of the federal surface transportation program was fairly predictable: with each reauthorization, the program was expanded in scope and increased in funding. This time it’s different. In the months ahead, Congress is likely to cut discretionary spending and this, I believe, will profoundly alter the scope of the federal role in transportation and the character of the federal transportation program.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Cecilia Estolano, Chief Strategist on State and Local Initiatives, Green For All

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
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As Green For All’s Chief Strategist on State and Local Initiatives, Cecilia Estolano oversees the organization’s State and Local Initiatives Team and Capital Access Program. She is charged with spearheading Green For All’s effort to scale public-private partnerships to grow family-supporting green jobs in cities across the United States, and advocates for broad access and opportunity in all sectors of the clean-energy economy.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Hilary O. Shelton, Washington Bureau Director & Senior Vice President for Advocacy, NAACP

Monday, February 28th, 2011
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Hilary O. Shelton, presently serves as the Director to the NAACP’s Washington Bureau, and is the Senior Vice President for Advocacy and Policy. The Washington Bureau is the Federal legislative and national public policy division of the over 500,000- member, 2,200-membership unit, national civil rights organization.

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