Selected speaking

  • Future of Collaborative Design Symposium, Hideo Sasaki Foundation (10/2025)

  • Policy Analysis as Problem Solving, Bloomberg Center for Cities (5/2025)

  • Mayors Imagining the Just City, Harvard Graduate School of Design (2/2025)

  • Pinnacle Awards, Boston Chamber of Commerce (1/2025)

  • The Chief of Staffs Association, Harvard Executive Education Fireside Chat (11/2024)

  • All Raise, Agents of Change Boston (4/2024)

  • American Institute of Architects’ Women's Leadership Summit (9/2023)

  • Academy of Management Annual Meeting, City Leadership panel (9/2023)

  • Boston University Academy Commencement Speech (5/2023)

  • MIT Media Lab Spring Meeting “Cultivating Creativity” (4/2023)

  • Boston Business Journal, Mentoring Monday Keynote (2/2023)

  • National Association of City Transportation Officials: How Governments can be Inclusive, Equitable Workplaces (9/2022)

  • Boston Area Research Initiative Conference: Keynote (5/2022)

  • Smart Growth America's Equity Summit: Transportation & thriving communities (1/2022)

  • TechCrunch Mobility: Equity, Accessibility, and Cities (6/2021) 

  • Wharton Future of Cities Conference (5/2020) 

  • Smart Cities New York: Moving the Masses (NYC, 5/2019)

  • UC Davis 3 Revolution: Equity in a New Mobility World (Davis CA, 3/2019) 

  • Meeting of the Minds: In the Era of New Mobility, The Streets of the Future Must Change (Sacramento, 11/2018) 

  • National League of Cities: Making Room for Innovation on City Streets (Los Angeles, 11/2018) 

  • YC Female Founders Conference: Essential Startup Advice (Mountain View CA, 9/2018) 

  • SPUR Workshop: Designing Streets for the Modern, Multimodal City (7/2018) 

  • San Francisco Design Week: Keynote (6/2018) 

  • Adobe MAX: Design Entrepreneurship Panel (Las Vegas, 10/2017) 

  • Union Internationale des Transports Publics: Mode-blind transit networks (Kortrijk, Belgium, 10/2017) 

  • Helsinki Design Week: DesignCommons (Helsinki, Finland, 9/2017) 

  • Designer Fund: Designing with Complex Constraints (Saratoga CA, 2/2017) 

  • New York Times Cities for Tomorrow Conference: City Visions (NYC, 7/2016) 

  • Canadian Urban Transit Association: Dynamic Routing (Halifax, Nova Scotia, 5/2016) 

  • Taco Tuesdays: A Product Design Talk Series at thoughtbot (San Francisco, 9/2015) 

  • SXSW: Designing Tools for Designing Cities (Austin, 3/2015) 

  • The World Bank: Transforming Transportation (DC, 1/2015) 

  • United Nations Development Programme: Mapping Informal Economies Workshop (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11/2014) 

  • Knight School of Communication Guest Lecture (Queens University-Charlotte, 9/2014) 

  • Civic Design Camp: Sketching the User Experience (San Francisco, 4/2014)

  • MIT Sustainability Summit (Cambridge, 4/2012)

Awards + Recognition

  • National Design Awards Jury, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (2023)

  • GreenBiz 25 Women Shaping Climate Action (2022)

  • Boston Magazine's 100 Most Influential Bostonians (2022)

  • National Association of Asian Pacifics in Politics and Public Affairs, 40 under 40 (2022)

  • World Economic Forum, Tech Pioneer Award (2020)

  • Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Tech Pioneer Award (2020) 

  • Transit Innovation Partnership, Transit Tech Lab Finalist (2019)

  • Forbes 30 Under 30 (Enterprise Technology - 2017 & 2018)

  • Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum "By the People: Designing a Better America" Exhibit (2017)

  • LinkedIn Next Wave 2016: Government

  • Curbed Young Guns (2016)

  • GovTech 100: Next Wave of Civic Innovation (multiple years)

  • Code for America Technology Award: Citygram (2015)

  • Smart City Startups 2015 Winner, Urban.us (2015)

  • Google Personal Democracy Fellowship (2014)

  • Code for America Fellowship (2014)

  • Awesome Foundation Grant, Boston Chapter (2012)