2025 New Shared Mobility Summit

Jason Lathbury acts as the Transportation Committee Chair for the Georgia Sierra Club. In that role, he advocates for minimizing pollution from transportation and the build- environment in a way that addresses historic injustices and improves mobility for all. He is an Aerospace Engineer by education and trade, but has been a clean transportation advocate for ten years, gaining knowledge and experience in the world of clean, efficient, and just mobility.

Odetta MacLeish-White is a twenty three year career professional in affordable housing, community development, and systemic change. She has worked on systemic vacancy as Director of Engagement for the Center for Community Progress; led the TransFormation Alliance, a partnership of nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses working with residents to improve housing, transit and jobs access; supported comprehensive community stabilization efforts and nonprofit capacity around the country as a Senior Program Director with Enterprise Community Partners; and created affordable housing recommendations as staff director for Florida’s Affordable Housing Study Commission. She started her career as a developer building tax credit units and managing small commercial properties. Odetta earned her Juris Doctorate and LLM in International Law from Duke University School of Law, and her bachelor’s degree in English and American Literature and Language from Harvard-Radcliffe University. She lives in Marietta, GA with Todd, her husband of 27 years, and their two children, Isaiah and Adria.

Nedra guides equitable processes to bring community voices into defining and shaping places and the story of place. She is a social worker, cultural preservationist, and creative. She centers our humanity, lived experiences, community care, and our beautiful world. Through her organizations, Civil Bikes she leads tours, provides bike education, advocacy for mobility justice, and youth bike camps. And Save Your Spaces a skill share to get the everyday person involved in preservation. She continues to write, think, and challenge the systems governing our quality of life and invites our collective transformation towards just interdependence.

Katrina Julien serves as Senior Program Officer, focused on the Foundation’s place-based portfolio. Katrina’s commitment to the Atlanta region aims to uplift and amplify resident voice in decision-making to advance social and economic mobility in their communities. Katrina provides vision and leadership that support the preservation and development of affordable housing, uplifts community centered economic development, and promotes safe and inclusive neighborhoods as a right for all metro Atlanta communities. Her role within community supports the Foundation’s mission of increasing equity and shared prosperity throughout the region.

Before joining the Foundation, Katrina worked as Principal Program Specialist in the Community Partnerships Division at the Atlanta Regional Commission. There, she was responsible for the planning and implementation of the Community Partnerships division’s leadership development programs and the coordination of the agency’s Poverty, Equity Opportunity (PEO) Committee where the ARC facilitated conversations around poverty and economic inclusion for all residents in the Atlanta region.

Katrina earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Georgia State University and her Master’s in Public Administration from Walden University.

Dr. Shelley Francis is a public health executive, tech entrepreneur, transportation disruptor, and former medical school professor.  She is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of EVNoire, a consultancy working to advance multimodal e-mobility (or electrification) solutions within electric, connected, shared, and autonomous vehicle technologies. She and fellow Co-founder, Terry Travis, lead a team of engineers, data scientists, urban planners, charging infrastructure specialists, policy experts, and multimodal electrification analysts. EVNoire utilizes their expertise, a human-centric approach, and data-driven frameworks to integrate and amplify electrification best practices and electrification for all communities in the transportation sector. The firm partners with utilities, automakers, the 25 largest cities, along with rural communities, transit agencies, governments, charging infrastructure companies, rideshare and delivery network companies, autonomous vehicle companies, aviation partners, nonprofits, and more to accelerate electrification and decarbonization strategies. 

Dr. Francis also co-founded EVHybridNoire (EVHN), an international 501 (c) (3) membership-based organization. EVHN has members across the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia who engage and work with communities and key stakeholders, advancing clean transportation.

A recognized national voice, Dr. Francis has advised the White House, U.S. Departments of Energy, and Transportation, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and spoken at forums such as VERGE, ACT Expo, ETS, the National E-Mobility Conference, Roadmap and the Essence Festival. Her work has been featured in Forbes, Energy News, the Columbus Times Dispatch, and The Baltimore Sun. She has been named one of the Top Global Women in EVs and serves on several industry boards including the Transportation Electrification Partners,  and GreenBiz’s Transport Advisory Board.