2025 New Shared Mobility Summit

Benjamin Muller serves as Program Manager for Regional Priority Projects for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT)’s Highway Division. Through this role he supports MPOs and municipalities across the Commonwealth in initiating, programming, and designing federal aid transportation projects. Previously, he has worked with various local and regional agencies across Greater Boston, Connecticut’s Naugatuck Valley, and New Orleans. He makes his home between the airport, the ferry terminal, and the subway in East Boston: a transportation nerd’s dream.

Karen Winger, AICP PMP TDM-CP CCTM, brings 25 years of public transportation experience. Starting as a student bus operator at UMass while earning her BA in Communication and MBA, she worked as a Transportation Planner for Old Colony MPO, contributing to the South Coast Rail Corridor Plan and creating an award-winning Human Services Coordination Plan. After three years with a private transit operator, she served as Transit Director in Gwinnett County, GA, improving on-time performance and ridership while pioneering Georgia’s first app-based MicroTransit pilot. Currently Director of Transportation Planning for the Longwood Collective, she leads transportation projects and oversees Transportation planning and one of the nation’s oldest Transportation Management Association programs.

Sandy Johnston is the Deputy Director of Regional Transit Planning at the MBTA, where he works on regional coordination and long-range planning, helping the T meet the challenges and opportunities of today and the future. Before the T, Sandy worked for 6 years at the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) in a variety of roles. Sandy lives in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston with his partner Gabriella and two huge cats. He’s a regular Orange Line rider and just bought an e-trike. He has lived in numerous places around the country, including Chicago.

Kate Dineen is the President & CEO of A Better City. Kate previously worked for the New York State Governor’s Office, serving as the Chief of Staff for State Operations, Assistant Secretary for the Environment, and Deputy Executive Director of the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery after Superstorm Sandy. She was U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Policy Director and has worked in the non-profit and media sectors. Kate holds a BA in English from Williams College and a Masters in City Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and was a Non-Resident Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School. She lives in Boston with her family.

Brendan has led WalkMassachusetts since 2023 and been part of the organization since 2013 – first in development/communications, then as deputy director and co-executive director. In these roles, he coordinated the organization’s public engagement efforts on safer streets for people walking, shared briefings with elected officials and reporters, and represented WalkMassachusetts on state and municipal working groups. A founding member of Boston’s Vision Zero Task Force, he has also served on MassDOT’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board (MABPAB). Brendan is the lead author of our annual crash report, which documents pedestrian fatalities across Massachusetts and highlights patterns to inform advocacy.

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.

Tegin Teich is the Executive Director of the Central Transportation Planning Staff (CTPS) in Boston, MA. CTPS is a 58-person organization that supports the Boston Region Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and provides transportation planning expertise to stakeholders in the region. The MPO develops a transportation vision for the 97 cities and towns in the Boston region and allocates federal dollars to transportation projects, while advancing strategies to achieve greater transparency and equity in the transportation planning processes.  Before taking on this role, Tegin worked for the City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, managing the city’s public transit program, serving as the city’s liaison for regional initiatives, and leading the conceptual design and public processes for major infrastructure projects. Prior to Cambridge, she was a consultant at IBI Group’s Boston office, working on and managing transit, Complete Streets, and technology projects. Tegin received dual Master’s Degrees in Urban Planning and Transportation from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert King is the Deputy Commissioner for Operations at the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR), overseeing more than 450,000 acres of state parks and public lands. With over two decades of experience in engineering/transportation, capital project delivery, and infrastructure management, he has led major initiatives in Brookline, Somerville, Framingham, and at the Massachusetts Port Authority, including Logan International Airport. His career has focused on advancing safety, accessibility, sustainability, and resiliency through data-driven decision making and collaborative leadership, strengthening public infrastructure to better serve Massachusetts communities.