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SUMMARY:President's Council-Secretary Pollack (MassDOT)
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in welcoming Stephanie Pollack\, Secretary and CEO of MassDOT\, as she discusses MassDOT's transportation initiatives including the Transportation Bond Bill\, the recent congestion reports\, and the Statewide Climate Change Adaption Plan.\n\n \n\nThe Massachusetts Department of Transportation is an integrated\, multi-modal transportation agency composed of Highway\, Rail and Transit\, and Aeronautics Divisions\, as well as a Registry of Motor Vehicles. The Department of Transportation is led by Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack\, who also sits on the Board of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Pollack has been Secretary of Transportation and CEO of MassDOT since 2015.\n\n \n\nAs Secretary\, Pollack has led efforts to establish project selection criteria and set investment priorities for a $13 billion\, five-year capital plan that focuses on improving reliability for the traveling public by modernizing Massachusetts' transportation assets. She has focused MassDOT on better serving its customers\, with initiatives such as All-Electronic Tolling and reducing wait-times at Registry of Motor Vehicles. Since July 2015\, the leadership of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has also reported to Secretary Pollack\, giving her a critical role in steering the ongoing turnaround of the transit system serving Eastern Massachusetts.\n\n \n\nBefore being named Secretary\, Pollack worked on transportation policy\, finance\, and equity as Associate Director for Research at the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University\, where she has also served as an adjunct professor. Her academic work followed a distinguished legal career at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston. Pollack also spent over a decade providing strategic guidance as a consultant on transportation\, equity\, and environmental issues to the public\, private\, and non-profit sectors\, both nationally and locally.\n\n \n\nPollack received both a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div><img alt="Image result for Secretary pollack" src="https://enterprisectr.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Secretary-Pollack-headshot-200x300.jpg" /><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif\;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt\;">Please join us in welcoming Stephanie Pollack\, Secretary and CEO of MassDOT\, as she discusses MassDOT&#39\;s transportation initiatives including the Transportation Bond Bill\, the recent congestion reports\, and the Statewide Climate Change Adaption Plan.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif\;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt\;">The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is an integrated\, multi-modal transportation agency composed of Highway\, Rail and Transit\, and Aeronautics Divisions\, as well as a Registry of Motor Vehicles. The Department of Transportation is led by Secretary and CEO Stephanie Pollack\, who also sits on the Board of the Massachusetts Port Authority. Pollack has been Secretary of Transportation and CEO of MassDOT since 2015.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif\;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt\;">As Secretary\, Pollack has led efforts to establish project selection criteria and set investment priorities for a $13 billion\, five-year capital plan that focuses on improving reliability for the traveling public by modernizing Massachusetts&rsquo\; transportation assets. She has focused MassDOT on better serving its customers\, with initiatives such as All-Electronic Tolling and reducing wait-times at Registry of Motor Vehicles. Since July 2015\, the leadership of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has also reported to Secretary Pollack\, giving her a critical role in steering the ongoing turnaround of the transit system serving Eastern Massachusetts.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif\;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt\;">Before being named Secretary\, Pollack worked on transportation policy\, finance\, and equity as Associate Director for Research at the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University\, where she has also served as an adjunct professor. Her academic work followed a distinguished legal career at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston. Pollack also spent over a decade providing strategic guidance as a consultant on transportation\, equity\, and environmental issues to the public\, private\, and non-profit sectors\, both nationally and locally.</span></span><br />\n&nbsp\;<br />\n<span style="font-family:times new roman\,serif\;"><span style="font-size:14.0pt\;">Pollack received both a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Science in Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School.</span></span></div>\n
LOCATION:Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce Fuller Conference Room 311 Main Street\, Suite 200 Worcester\, MA 01608
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URL:https://business.worcesterchamber.org/events/details/president-s-council-secretary-pollack-massdot-11621
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