ITE Journal - June 2021 - 15

YOUNG LEADERS
TO FOLLOW

ITE Young Leaders to Follow 2021
ITE is proud to announce our first-ever group of Young Leaders to
Follow with the selection of the Class of 2021. The ITE Young Leaders
to Follow program was designed to recognize and highlight talented
ITE members under the age of 35 who have already made a mark on
ITE and the transportation industry and are leaders to follow in the
years to come. ITE is honored to introduce these young members to
the greater ITE Community and to celebrate their accomplishments.
ITE is also pleased to recognize our Young Member of the Year, Yung
Koprowski, P.E., PTOE, RSP1 (M), who was selected from this
outstanding group of awardees. Yung stood out among her peers. Her
professional, ITE, and community accomplishments are remarkable at
this early stage of her career. Yung's selection as Young Member of the
Year will be celebrated at the virtual ITE Annual Meeting in July 2021.
The selection committee was chaired by ITE International Vice President Beverly Kuhn, P.E., PTOE (F), and members of the committee
included Eric Rensel (M), Coordinating Council Chair; Adam Allen,
P.E., PTOE, TSOS, IMSA II (F), LeadershipITE Chair; Noelle Wilcox (M),
Co-Chair, Younger Member Committee; and Shilpa Mallem, P.E.,
PTOE (M), Chair, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

Young Member of the Year
Yung Koprowski,
P.E., PTOE, RSP1 (M)
Yung formed her own engineering firm in 2017, Y2K
Engineering, to serve as a role model for other women
and young professionals. She leads a team of 13 from
offices in Mesa, AZ, USA, and Denver, CO, USA. Y2K
Engineering was the recipient of the ADOT Business Engagement &
Compliance DBE Trailblazer Award in 2018. She received a bachelor's
in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University, is a licensed Professional Engineer, certified Professional Traffic Operations Engineer, and a
certified Road Safety Professional. Her experience focuses on traffic engineering and transportation planning, specifically in safety, intelligent
transportation systems (ITS), traffic operations, and active transportation. In 2016, the American Society of Civil Engineers recognized Yung
as a New Face of Civil Engineering Professional Honoree. The Phoenix
Business Journal recognized her as a 40 under 40 Honoree in 2019 and
an Outstanding Women in Business Honoree and Rising Star in 2021.
She is a past president of the Intelligent Transportation Society of
Arizona and the American Society of Highway Engineers Sonoran
Section. Her husband, Keith Koprowski, is also a civil engineer and
began working at Y2K Engineering three years ago. They live with their
children, Chase (8) and Charlotte (6), in Gilbert, AZ, USA. Yung was

appointed to the town council in May 2020 for a term ending December 2022 and was selected to serve as vice mayor from September
2020 through December 2020, and to continue as vice mayor for
2021. Yung is the 2021 President of the Arizona Section of ITE and is
an alumnus of the 2019 LeadershipITE program. An ITE member since
2008, she also has served on the ITE Pedestrian and Bicycle Executive
Committee, STEM Committee, and LeadershipITE Committee.

Sarah Abel (M)
Transportation Planning Director, ITE
Sarah is a highly skilled and thoughtful transportation
professional who is involved in and works tirelessly
to advance many of the cutting-edge topics that are
helping to reshape what transportation professionals
do and how they do it. Since joining the ITE staff in 2018, Sarah has
become a highly visible thought leader in several emerging technical
areas. She was instrumental in launching ITE's visibility on the issue
of speed management and has also been instrumental in ITE's work
on supporting the implementation of a Safe System Approach. In
the transportation planning area, she is leading an ITE contract effort
to develop technical resources on curbside management for FHWA.
She is heavily involved in finalizing an ITE Recommended Practice on
incorporating multimodal considerations into transportation impact
analyses. Sarah is supporting the ITE Pedestrian and Bicycle Standing
Committee in finalizing an informational report and helping guide
the development of several technical products in the Mobility as a
Service/Mobility on Demand (MaaS/MOD) area. She is also staffing
the 16-person ITE delegation to the National Committee on Uniform
Traffic Control devices (NCUTCD), which is currently preparing detailed
comments on a proposed new edition of the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) for the first time in more than a decade.
Sarah's previous work experience includes serving as planning director
for the Town of St. Michaels, MD, USA; design development director
for Cambridge Architectural; and community design manager/interim
director at the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy.

Luana Broshears,
Ph.D., P.E., PTOE, RSP2I (M)
Assistant Project Manager Traffic/
Transportation Engineering & Planning,
Sain Associates, Inc.
Luana is " all in " for ITE. After completing her time as
a student member, she immediately rolled into full membership and
engagement at the Section, District, and International levels. She
currently serves on the ITE Transportation Safety Council Executive
Committee and the ITE Younger Member Committee, and was formerly
a part of the leadership for the Southern Arizona Chapter of ITE and the
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