Lindsey is the environmental justice and equity lead in the planning department at the Michigan Department of Transportation, where she focuses on promoting a sustainable, resilient, and equitable transportation system that provides access to essential destinations for all people. Currently, she is co-leading efforts at MDOT to improve evaluation of environmental justice and transportation equity, and integrate consideration of both into MDOT’s planning, public participation, project selection, and environmental impact analysis processes. Lindsey has practical research experience in evaluating the impacts of transportation policy and planning on underserved communities, including a research project for USDOT that identified the public transit needs of low-income women of color using an innovative access analysis method. She is currently serving on an NCHRP project panel on valuing DEI in asset management.
Selected speaking enagements
- WTS International Conference 2024, “Different Moves: Transportation at the Intersections of Gender and Social Justice”
- TRB Women and Gender, “Different Moves…” (expanded version)