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Ensuring Transportation Serves All

COMTO’s mission is to provide full access to employment, career and contract opportunities for veterans, adults with disabilities, women, and people of color within the transportation industry. Over the past fifty years, our mandate has evolved to include not only public transportation industry executives, but also professionals at every level of industry encompassing a variety of fields and disciplines. Now, as was then, members are encouraged to share information, opportunities and personal expertise. With 40 chapters throughout the United States, our mission is as relevant today as we strive to provide full access to employment, career and contract opportunities for people of all lived experience within the transportation industry.

KaKeesha Branigan
President
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Missy Stuedle
1st Vice President
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Missy Stuedle
1st Vice President
Missy Stuedle is the External Civil Rights Director for MoDOT. Missy has been with MoDOT for over twenty-three years. She has served in various capacities in the External Civil Rights Division, including Administrative Assistant, Civil Rights Specialist, Civil Rights Manager, and her current role as the External Civil Rights Director.

As Director, Missy is responsible for directing the department’s external affirmative action, equal opportunity & non-discrimination programs, which include the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program, On-the-Job Training Program, Equal Employment Opportunity, Title VI, ADA, and all other non-discrimination or affirmative action programs related to federal-aid contracting activities.

In addition to her day-to-day activities, Missy is the lead administrator of the Missouri Unified Certification Program, which includes St. Louis Lambert Airport, Bi-State Development, Mid-America Regional Council, the City of Kansas City, and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority.

Missy graduated from Central Missouri State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and graduated from Columbia College with a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice.
David Glastetter
2nd Vice President
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David Glastetter
2nd Vice President
David Glastetter is a senior project engineer for HNTB Corporation’s Saint Louis office. David has over 25 years of experience in the design, repair, load rating, and inspection of roadway bridges. David is a member of the MoDOT Client Service Team for HNTB and has worked on numerous MoDOT projects throughout his career. David is a native of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, but has called St. Louis his home for the past ten years.
Alonzo Washington
Secretary
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Alonzo Washington
Secretary
Alonzo Washington is a senior project engineer manager for WSP, USA, St. Louis office. Alonzo has over 13 years of experience in design, project management, and Resident Construction Engineering. Alonzo has worked on numerous IDOT, MoDOT, and Local Agency projects throughout his career. Alonzo is a native of Starkville, MS, but has called St. Louis his home for the past 13 years.
Lawanda Jones
Treasurer
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Mario Alexander
Director-at-Large
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John Mick
Director-at-Large
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Rhonetta Brazzill
Director-at-Large
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Essence Owens
Director-at-Large
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Chrishaun Hollins
Director-at-Large
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Vivian Martain
Immediate Past President
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Vivian Martain
Immediate Past President
As DEI Compliance Officer, Vivian leads Millstone Weber’s DEI commitments and manages the firm’s portfolio of compliance and community capacity-building initiatives. In that role, Vivian administers highway design, engineering, and construction project compliance and monitors and enforces the diverse, equitable, and inclusive participation of disadvantaged businesses, professionals, the construction workforce, and on-the-job trainees.

Vivian also serves as the administrator of three Millstone Weber Equity Initiatives: the MW Communiversity, a one-stop resource center targeting the needs of area DBEs; Project PAVE, an award-winning STEM Initiative she designed and created which introduces metropolitan St. Louis high school students to transportation and highway design, engineering and construction and the MW Lunch & Learn series, a virtual collaborative aimed at dismantling the framework of systemic racial, social, academic and economic inequities in our region.

Vivian is the former Executive Director of the Construction Prep Center (CPC), a nationally recognized construction pre-apprenticeship training school in St. Louis, and the former Director of the Contracts, Legal and Risk Management Divisions of the St. Louis Housing Authority.