Irene Balza is the Project Manager for Street Plans’ Miami office. Irene’s passion is to design cities and streets where communities can feel safe while walking, biking, taking transit, and driving. She has over seven years of experience working on urban design and mobility projects including road diets, Complete Streets, community engagement, design and policy guidelines, bicycle and pedestrian master plans, tactical urbanism, and asphalt art. In her time at Street Plans, Irene has worked with the Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities Program and the Inter-American Development Bank to hold tactical urbanism workshops in Latin American cities.

Diana leads the Culver City’s Transportation Department in planning, operating, and implementing citywide and subregional mobility services and initiatives to reimagine mobility, connect community, and enhance the quality of life in Culver City and beyond. As the Chief Transportation Officer, she reports to the City Manager and oversees four divisions in Transportation: Fleet Services, Transit Administration, Transportation and Mobility Planning, and Transit Operations - a total of 195 employees. She has a background in architecture and urban planning. Her expertise includes innovative mobility solutions, strategic mobility planning and collaboration, mobility management, and transportation capital improvement projects. Her work has been focused on improving citywide and subregional mobility, including the MOVE Culver City Project, the Metro E-Line (Expo) Light Rail station in Culver City, the Culver CityBus Comprehensive Service Analysis, the Micromobility Program, the Transportation Demand Management Program, the SmartBus System, the Bus Signal Priority System, the Real-Time Bus Arrival Information System, and the Culver CityBus Rapid Line on Sepulveda Boulevard.

Joe Iacobucci is the West Coast General Manager and New Mobility Practice Leader for Sam Schwartz. He is an internationally recognized leader in the transportation field focusing his career on transforming urban streets and transportation networks to enhance equity, connectivity, safety, and optimization by prioritizing sustainable modes. He has performed work throughout the US and internationally to enhance urban mobility through complete streets while also performing future-looking efforts as congestion pricing and emerging mobility. His work has guided clients through a variety of site, street, and strategic plans to manage current and emerging mobility (CAVs, MOD, MaaS) for Seattle, Los Angeles, New York City, San Jose, Miami, and other major markets. Mr. Iacobucci has also performed national studies for Transit Center and the National Academies, thought leadership and pilot programs for providers as Ford, Lyft, and others, and guidance for USDOT, APTA, and NACTO. He is a contributor to the book No One at the Wheel, the co-author of Driverless Future (driverlessfuture.org), and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Fast Company, Tech Crunch, Slate, CityLab, Curbed, several conferences, and academic publications.

Bree is a Senior Transportation Engineer with Sam Schwartz, working across both New York and Los Angeles offices, specializing in multi-modal transportation design, mobility hubs, data collection, and airport landside traffic operations. She has worked on transformative complete street projects such as the Hollywood Walk of Fame Master Plan, Reimagine Expo Square focusing on three arterials surrounding Exposition Park in Los Angeles, and LaGuardia Airport Bike Access Plan in New York City.