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YOUNG LEADERS
TO FOLLOW

Southern District Leadership Committee. While at Auburn University,
she founded the Auburn University Brazilian Student Association and
led the ITE Student Chapter. She is currently working to establish an ITE
Student Chapter at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Through
all of her activities, she has remained focused on helping others and
making a meaningful contribution to advancing safe transportation for
everyone. Luana's experience includes traffic safety, traffic forecasting,
traffic impact studies, traffic operation studies, signal warrant analysis, traffic signal timing, traffic simulation modeling, parking studies,
pedestrian and bicycle studies, and roadway impact-fee studies. She
was part of the team that worked with the Alabama Department of
Transportation to update the 3rd Edition of the Alabama Strategic
Highway Safety Plan. She also served as the champion for the transition
to predictive safety analysis at the Arizona Department of Transportation. In addition, Luana was the instructor of the traffic safety class at
the University of Arizona for two years.

led to the creation of truly meaningful relationships. She is currently
helping with Traffic Bowl coordination, is a member of the Student
and Young Professionals Committee for the Mountain District,
and serves as Student Chapter liaison to the University of Colorado, Denver and the University of Wyoming. Her supervisor, Nick
Cioffredi, said, Victoria " can effortlessly explain the 'why' top-down
and bottom-up on traffic operations, microsimulation, and driver
behavior. Having supported public safety through optimization of
complex traffic patterns across the globe, at a spry two-year P.E.,
she has already made an enduring mark on society and civic safety.
She is our firm's go-to VISSIM instructor, training others on BRT/LRT
simulation, and recently completed the first-ever runaway truck
simulation. She is well beyond her years in ability to implement
engineering concepts to influence defendable operational parameters and geometric design solutions. "

Neelam Dorman, T.E. (M)

Traffic Engineer, Neel-Schaffer
Claudio has been connected to ITE through every
step of his career. He has taken on leadership roles
starting as an undergraduate at the University of
Puerto Rico, as a member of the Indiana Section
then the North Carolina Section, and now back in the Florida Puerto
Rico District. He is Secretary of the ITE Roundabout Standing Committee, leading a study project with the ITE Transportation Planning
Council, and is a LeadershipITE alumnus. Claudio has been involved
in several major projects in his professional career, most of which
involve innovative, cost-saving designs, including one that required a
feasibility study of a commuter corridor. This project allowed him to
propose an alternative design not common in North Carolina, USA for
two major intersections. This design minimized delay and required
a smaller footprint while also improving safety. In Florida, Claudio
wants to help with the new Central and Northwest Florida Section.
He believes the skills he gained as a student in Puerto Rico and at
Purdue, involvement with the Indiana and North Carolina Section,
and the leadership skills obtained during the LeadershipITE program
will be of great value to continue to develop and raise participation in
the new Section.

Principal Transportation Planner,
City of Anaheim
ITE has been a significant part of Neelam's career,
having served in leadership as a student, with the
Southern California Section, the Western District,
and at the International level. She credits ITE with providing technical growth, leadership training, mentors, career opportunities, and a
close group of friends. She is Past President of the Western District and
chaired the Western District Task Force around ONE ITE, administering a
transition plan during the redistricting of the Western District and creation of the Mountain District. She is currently on the ITE International
ONE ITE Task Force and is planning to run for International Director
for the Western District in 2021. Neelam leads impactful large-scale
projects like the Anaheim Resort Mobility Plan, which is a multimodal
study to evaluate how to best serve 25 million annual visitors, 37,000
employees, and residents in a unique and challenging transportation
environment. She also led the grant effort for a Streetcar connector
project and serves as the city's transit lead. Neelam has worked with
developers, cities, counties, metropolitan planning organizations,
and state DOTs on roundabout design, benefit/cost analyses, signal
synchronization, local and highway corridors studies, feasibility studies,
EIRs, and TIAs.

Victoria Edington (M)
Transportation Engineer, Stantec
Mountain District Rising Star
Victoria has already shown incredible technical skill
and has proven to be an exceptional volunteer and
leader for the ITE Mountain District. In 2018, Victoria
led all student activities at the Joint Western and Texas District
Annual Meeting. Her approach to engaging student volunteers has
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Claudio A. Figueroa, P.E. (M)

Jodi Godfrey (M)
Senior Research Associate,
University of South Florida - Center for
Urban Transportation Research
Florida Puerto Rico District Rising Star
Jodi currently serves as President of the Greater
Tampa Bay Section of ITE and has been active at all levels of ITE and
in other professional organizations. She is a member of the Women of
ITE Subcommittee and serves on the ITE STEM Committee. Within the
industry, she is secretary of the Transportation Research Board Stand-

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