The COMTO Celebrating Women Who Move the Nation Steering Committee ensures the successful planning and execution of COMTO’s Celebrating Women Who Move the Nation ceremony, traditionally held annually during Women’s History Month. Activities include ensuring COMTO meets its revenue goals, choosing honorees that meet all predefined criteria, securing all honorees will be present at the ceremony, planning logistics of the event and participating in teleconferences to ensure all timeline items are completed on schedule and, assisting with all assigned onsite duties the day of the event.

This committee is by appointment only. 

Chair

• Meshelle Howard, Director, Small Business Programs, WMATA 2019 honoree, [email protected]

The COMTO Emerging Leaders Committee works on key initiatives to engage COMTO professionals seeking to build the requisite skills to advance toward the rank of Officer or Executive in public or private organizations within the transportation industry. The emerging leader has demonstrated a desire to produce at the executive levels within the transportation industry in his or her current role. Because of industry trends, he or she is expected to excel in order to develop and lead new infrastructure and technological initiatives and will benefit from mentoring and guidance to navigate into a plausible succession plan within the transportation industry.

COMTO members who self-identify as an emerging leaders are placed into one of four tiers:

Tier 1 - Student: COMTO Student Members who are seeking a career in transportation or related discipline. 

Tier 2 - Entry Level/Young Professionals: COMTO Members who work in entry-level positions seeking to advance to their first management position

Tier 3 - Middle Management: COMTO Members who are responsible for planning and directing the work of others and or key projects in support of organizational goals.

Tier 4 - Senior Management: COMTO Members who are responsible for planning and directing the work of others and allocating resources, working across departments to facilitate the development and advancement of organizational goals.

Tier 5 - C-Suite Executives: COMTO Members who are in charge of an organization or a primary function of an organization. They are responsible for ensuring the achievement of organizational goals by advising senior management on strategies to accomplish goals.

Chairs

• J.R. Alexander, Transportation Manager, Public Transit, Deloitte, [email protected]
• Tamika White, Sr. Manager, Organizational Development, Transportation-Trucking, Railroad, Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority, [email protected]

The COMTO Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Committee assists the COMTO National Office with developing and maintaining a comprehensive and energetic program to promote the use of HUB vendors throughout the procurement process.

Chair

• Johnell Bell, Founder and CEO, Espousal Strategies LLC, [email protected]

The COMTO Industry Awards Committee reviews award nomination submissions, selects final award honorees and hosts the COMTO Industry Awards, the official closing program of the annual COMTO National Meeting and Training Conference.

Chairs

• Melissa Rollie-Scott, MDT Section Chief, OSS Audit & Compliance, Miami-Dade County, [email protected]
• Lydia Grose, Vice President and Office Executive, Michael Baker International, [email protected]

The COMTO Legislative Advisory Council promotes policies and programs that advance the organization, as well as the mission, vision and strategic plan.

Chair

• Gwendolen Gray, Second Vice Chair, COMTO National Board of Directors; Project Controls Director and Vice President, HNTB, [email protected]

Our Legislative and Advocacy Work includes:

A View from the Hill

Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Transportation Braintrust

The COMTO Membership Committee generates initiatives to recruit and retain members, all subject to the review and approval from the COMTO National Board of Directors.

Chairs

• Ashley Greaves, Project Consultant, Hatch LTK, [email protected]
• Joshua Salazar, P.E. Associate VP, Transportation Business Group Manager, [email protected]

The COMTO Program Planning Committee develops workshops and forums for the annual COMTO National Meeting and Training Conference. This committee reviews and evaluates ‘Call for Papers’ submissions in order to ensure that the workshops, continuing education units and forums meet the educational needs and goals of COMTO’s membership.

This committee is by appointment only. 

Chair

• Sharon Jean-Baptiste, Vice President, East Central Transportation Growth Director, Jacobs, 

  [email protected]

The COMTO Scholarship Committee cultivates scholarship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. This committee also educates members on the scholarship application process, as well as promotes scholarship opportunities to COMTO’s networks and throughout the transportation industry.

Chairs

• Kimberly Webb, Associate VP & Municipal Transportation Practice Leader, HNTB, [email protected]
• Tasha Steiner, Electrical Engineer, WSP USA, [email protected]

The COMTO Strategic Developing Committee maintains and refreshes the strategic plan to align with the mission, vision and goals of COMTO and to ensure that the COMTO strategic plan appropriately guides the organization to achieve its strategic direction desired.

This committee is by appointment only. 

Chair

• Kim Slaughter, Senior Vice President and Transportation Leader - North America, TYLin, [email protected]