Chicago Change Team II
Local Champion
Sarah FioRito - City of Evanston
Sarah D. FioRito is an Evanston and Skokie-raised transportation planner, community organizer, and artist with a deep love for the Chicago area, cities, flowers, design, and imagining, and working for, a better world. Throughout over a decade of working on transportation equity, Sarah has led bicycle mechanics-based youth and workforce development programs, coordinated a province-wide (state level) campaign for universal childhood cycling education, initiated new intergovernmental collaborations, and brought diverse groups together for better transit and street designs. Sarah coordinates transportation policy, programs, and partnerships for the City of Evanston.
Francisco (Paco) Rubio - Working Bikes
Francisco started his journey at Big Marsh bike park which led him to the WorkingBikes’ Community Mechanic program. After working at both these nonprofits and recognizing the benefits of cycling and how the bicycle can be used as a tool for people to empower themselves, Francisco made the shift to help with supporting and educating communities through introduction to bike maintenance and safe commuting. He is an instructor at WorkingBikes’ Bike POC & Queer Night on Thursday evenings. Francisco also spends his time mentoring youth in local communities through track racing and cycle cross racing (TrackCatsChi).
Local Champion
Victoria Barrett - Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)
Victoria Barrett (she/her) is the Program Lead for Safe Systems at the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. She has worked in multimodal transportation design and planning for more than two
decades. Her current work is devoted to improving travel safety while expanding mobility for vulnerable road users and historically excluded populations in the Chicago region. Her work centers on using a comprehensive, equitable, safe system approach that includes design, policy, education, and collaboration. Prior to her work at CMAP, she was a planning consultant with Charlier Associates, based in Boulder, Colorado, serving clients across the country in developing multimodal transportation plans, and policy platforms to improve mobility and livability.
Hugo Coronado - Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC)
Hugo is a transportation and urban planning expert from Colombia. With a background in public policy and GIS, his work spans transit advocacy and equity-focused infrastructure planning. He has led Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) engagement with community-based organizations in Chicago and developed project prioritization methodologies for MPC’s Reconnecting Communities Report.
Meet the Change Teams
The New Shared Mobility Summit will bring together ten teams of Change Leaders from metropolitan areas across the US.