Thank you to Adonia Lugo, Equity Research Manager at University of California Institute of Transportation Studies/ITS UCLA, who presented Envisioning Mobility Justice Within California’s Transportation Systems at the Berkeley Transportation Seminar on Mar. 8, 2024.
Abstract: Can we address historic inequities in our transportation systems and support shifting to sustainable transportation behavior at the same time? Lugo will share insights from her work as an anthropologist engaged with the grassroots mobility justice movement and where she sees opportunities to apply those insights in California’s state transportation landscape.
Bio: Cultural anthropologist Adonia E. Lugo (she/hers) lives, works, and thinks about mobility justice in traditional and unceded Tongva territory (Los Angeles). Her book, Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance, came out in 2018. Adonia is Equity Research Manager at the University of California Institute of Transportation Studies, based at UCLA. In May 2022, Governor Gavin Newsom appointed her to the California Transportation Commission.