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Alisha Khanal
Chair, YPT DFW
Alisha works as a Civil/Transit Engineer at AECOM currently specializing in Mass Transit projects bringing valuable experience from her prior role in surface transportation within the same organization. She has actively contributed to sustainable urban development, including hydropower infrastructure, and participated in earthquake disaster relief projects in her home country, Nepal. As a leader in…
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Ezra Pratt
Secretary, YPT DFW
Ezra is a senior transportation planner with the North Central Texas Council of Governments, the Metropolitan Planning Organization for the Dallas-Fort Worth region. He has worked on the transit management and planning program area since 2020, engaging in short-range transit planning efforts to assist regional transit agencies, as well as smaller providers and communities that…
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PARISA HOSSEINI, PHD
Director of Programs, YPT DFW
Parisa is an Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Engineering Specialist at STV Inc., specializing in transportation safety, mobility technologies, and emerging transportation solutions. She has worked on projects with DFW Airport, PennDOT, WSDOT, Houston METRO, TDOT, and FDOT, focusing on ITS design, wrong-way driving mitigation, and AV/EV integration. With expertise in machine learning and statistical methods,…
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Judith Cruz
Director of Membership, YPT DFW
Judy is a roadway designer with 8 years of experience in schematic design. She is also involved in transportation outreach program exposing high school girls to careers in Transportation. The outreach program is called Transportation YOU and is part of WTS (Women Transportation Seminars). Judy received an undergraduate degree in Applies Mathematics from Emory University…
