About the Webinar

Complete Streets are streets for everyone. A transportation system that accommodates people using all forms of transportation is more accessible, comfortable, economical, sustainable and efficient in the travel space provided. Making our streets complete is increasingly the expectation from community members and funders at the state and federal levels. Whether your community has been a complete streets leader or you are new to the concept, come learn the latest on complete streets opportunities and expectations that should be incorporated into planning efforts in your community.

Celeste Gilman

Strategic Policy Administrator, WSDOT

Celeste Gilman is nationally recognized in the USA as a Complete Streets Changemaker by Smart Growth America. She is the Strategic Policy Administrator in the Washington State Department of Transportation's Active Transportation Division, where she leads implementation of the requirement to deliver Complete Streets for state transportation projects. She also leads strategic efforts within the agency to work with partners across the state to utilize land use as a tool to manage transportation demand and give more people the opportunity to walk, bicycle, and take transit for their daily trips. Gilman serves on the American Association of State Highway Officials Council on Active Transportation Research Subcommittee, the Technical Advisory Group for WSDOT's Research Program, and multiple National Cooperative Highway Research Program Panels.

Pranjali Rai

Senior Planner, Dept. of Commerce

Pranjali Rai is a senior planner with Growth Management Services at the Washington State Department of Commerce. As a part of the Climate and Ecosystems Section, she helps evaluate climate action strategies and their potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. She also supports local governments with climate related research.

Pranjali is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington, where her research primarily focuses on climate action and resilience development in small urban areas and rural counties. She is an AICP certified planner and holds a dual master’s degree in community planning and architecture from the University of Maryland. She has previously consulted as an urban planner and designer on multiple sub-area planning efforts for municipal governments in the New England region.

Ashley Probart

Executive Director, Transportation Improvement Board

Ashley has been part of Washington State’s transportation community at the state and local level for over thirty years. Early in his career, he worked for the Washington State Department of Transportation and drafted Washington state’s first bicycle and pedestrian transportation plans. Ashley worked for the senate and house transportation committees, and was a Legislative and Policy Advocate for the Association of Washington Cities (AWC) for over a decade. Ashley currently serves as the Executive Director for the Transportation Improvement Board. 

Chuck Green

City of Ridgefield

Chuck Green has 42 years’ experience in planning and implementing transportation and infrastructure projects. Chuck was the City’s lead for the recent Route Jurisdiction Transfer process, which led to the transfer of right-of-way and assets along the State Route 501/Pioneer Street corridor in Ridgefield from WSDOT to the City. Chuck is also the City’s project director for the Pioneer Street at 50^th Place/Discovery Drive project, the largest single project the City has ever undertaken. Green has almost 25 years’ experience with Ridgefield, service as a transportation consultant in the 1990s and 2000s, project manager for the Discovery Corridor Strategic Infrastructure Analysis, and, immediately prior to taking on the Director role, acting City Engineer. Green’s public service includes time as co-chair of the Clark County Charter Review Commission as well as serving a five-year term on the Clark County Commission on Aging, including one year as vice-chair and two years as chair. Green was the lead commissioner for the update of the county’s ten-year-old Aging Readiness Plan.

David Strich

Senior Multimodal Planner, Northwest Region Mount Baker Area WSDOT

David Strich works as a senior multimodal planner for WSDOT Northwest Region Mount Baker Area (MBA) supporting jurisdictions in Island, San Juan, Skagit, and Whatcom Counties. Prior to working for WSDOT David served as a Planner and Emergency Management Specialist for the Samish Indian Nation. In his pre-planning life, he worked as an environmental educator and administrator of federally funded learning opportunities for students in K-12 public schools. David earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and his research interests include Place, Environmental Education, and Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies.

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