Charu Kukreja is an urban planner, writer, and designer with broad experience on projects on the east coast and Southern California. Her work supports her vision to enhance transportation access and equity, and promote the development of vibrant, safe and walkable communities. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, Charu was a core member of the New York City Department of Transportation’s WalkNYC project team to develop a citywide pedestrian wayfinding system. A variety of print, digital and environmental applications of this world-class map and signage system now serve pedestrians, bike share cyclists, tourists, and transit riders across New York City.

Charu’s love of walking was inspired at an early age by her grandfather, who showed her how a daily stroll allows us to connect with our surroundings and with each other. Now 98 years old - and still walking every day - his life is a testament to the positive impacts of walking on long-term physical and mental health. With this inspiration, Charu is driven forward on her mission to improve walkability in urban communities.

Jim Pocrass is a leading Los Angeles trial lawyer who has spent more than 30 years representing people who suffered serious personal injuries and families who lost a loved one in a wrongful death because of the negligence of another. Almost 10 years ago, Jim decided he wanted to get involved in the transportation space to work with others to create systematic change that would make streets safe for everyone. Since that time, Jim has been an active advocate for safe streets for all. He spent 7 years on the board of directors of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, two of them as vice president. He currently is working with LACBC to create an advisory council of former board members. Jim also is on the board of the East Side Riders Bike Club and on the advisory board of Walk n’ Rollers. Through his firm Pocrass De Los Reyes LLP, Jim sponsors numerous transit-related events, educational programs, and the printing of collateral materials. In his spare time, Jim is a recreational cyclist, flies radio-controlled airplanes, golfs, and is a licensed commercial airplane pilot, but he loves nothing more than hanging out with his two grandchildren.

Joshua Crowell has committed his legal career to holding corporate America accountable and vindicating the rights of the greater public. Having grown up in the High Desert, attended college in Minnesota and law school in Washington D.C., and started practicing law in New York, he settled in Los Angeles in 2012. He was a partner of a law firm that brought class actions against large corporations for violating the securities laws. Then he started a solo firm representing workers who suffered discrimination, harassment, or wage theft. Currently, he is a Deputy City Attorney in the Affirmative Litigation Division of the LA City Attorney’s Office. He brings civil law enforcement actions against unlawful, unfair, or fraudulent business practices that harm city residents. Since 2014, he has lived in DTLA, a place that highlights the city’s wonderful mix of peoples but also its deplorable indifference to people in need and its harmful reliance on motor vehicles. As someone who has spent most of his adult life walking and using public transportation, he cares about pedestrian safety and making our streets accessible for all residents. He enjoys running, watching British detective shows, reading and talking about urban policy, and traveling with his spouse.

Kaitlin Scott is a planner in Los Angeles. She currently works with Alta Planning + Design, where she focuses on pedestrian planning, programming, and inclusive outreach tactics in communities across southern California. Through her work, Kaitlin has addressed issues of safety, accessibility, and equity surrounding streets and public space. She recently received her a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA. Despite the uncomfortable and unsafe walking conditions of her southern California hometown's auto-centric streets, she grew up preferring biking or walking. This preference eventually led her to her career as an active transportation planner and her life as a pedestrian advocate. Kaitlin believes streets as our largest public space, so they should be safe, accessible, equitable, and engaging for users of all ages and abilities.

Jacqueline Torres is a multi-lingual Transportation Planner with 10 years of experience and is currently working for LA Metro where she is focusing on transportation and transit planning. Jacqueline has extensive international expertise in active transportation and multi-modal transit planning, most notably for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Among her international and domestic projects, she has evaluated and mapped first/last mile city-wide pedestrian access plans, including accessing existing and future transportation infrastructure as well as analyzing transit networks and station capacity. As a first-generation Mexican-American Angeleno who primarily walked to or from school, Jacqueline values the important role that sidewalks and transit play in providing greater access for all angelenos.Jacqueline Torres holds a BS in Political Science/Spanish Studies from Santa Clara University. In addition, she has a MA in Urban Planning focused on Transportation Planning from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Lili Trujillo Puckett is the founder and Executive Director STREET RACING KILLS. By trade she is a certified Interpreter and marketer. Lili founded Street Racing Kills (SRK) on 2014, in California after her 16-year-old daughter Valentina Dalessandro was killed by a young man who was street racing and crashed while giving her and her friends a ride home. She knew then that her daughter’s death would not be in vain, and that she would do everything she could to prevent a parent from losing a child. Lili’s life changed forever that day. With Valentina by her side in spirit. SRK’s mission is to raise awareness regarding the dangers of illegal street racing and traffic safety among the youth. She is active in our community as a Key-Club advisor for North High the Kiwanis club of Torrance she also currently serves as a co-chair for Families for Safe Streets a project of LA walks and volunteers her time with other organizations that focus on traffic fatalities. To date she has been interviewed by over 25 media outlets, including the LA Times, Daily Breeze Channel 4 News, Univision, GTN America. Lili’s additions to SRK are the Respect the Road Teen Traffic Safety program which covers all aspects of traffic safety in partnership with other nonprofit organizations and the Val’s Respect the Road Scholarship in honor of Valentina which provides drivers education specifically design for foster and disadvantaged teenagers Her Motto is “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain".

Markos Legesse is lifelong Angeleno who is very active in LA's Ethiopian-American community, specifically in the Little Ethiopia area on Fairfax. As a Civil Engineer, he is working as an Engineering Associate at Alta Planning + Design. Previous to Alta, he worked at the City of LA Bureau of Engineering in their Sidewalk Division. He has over six years of diversified engineering experience that has provided him with a rooted understanding of both the public and private sector. Markos has worked on a wide array of projects that include roadway rehabs, active transportation projects, complete streets projects, roadway widening projects, ADA and pedestrian improvements and more. Markos is also a project leader of the Ethiopian Community Development Center.