Date and Time: Tuesday, July 11, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Ellen Partridge
Senior Advisor, Mobility Innovation, Equiticity
Presentation Description
Speaker Biography
With a spirit of adventure and challenge, Ellen strives to align the business case, the moral argument and the environmental imperative for transportation law and policy that is sustainable and equitable. Throughout a career that brought her to Washington DC, Alaska, the Republic of Palau, and Chicago, she has been a committed collaborator and has become a transportation geek (loves a good graph)!
The pandemic showed that we can have a world of cleaner air, that we could make streets that are welcoming to people on bikes and people on foot. It gave impetus to making transportation more equitable.
Ellen has worked in public transit at federal and local levels, serving in the Obama Administration as Chief Counsel for the USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration and Chief Counsel for the FTA. At the Chicago Transit Authority she served as Deputy General Counsel for Policy and Appeals and learned that everyone has a CTA story. Before joining the CTA, she practiced environmental law with Jenner & Block in Chicago and Van Ness Feldman in Washington, D.C.
