Meet the Candidates: Secretary/Treasurer
Posted by cowyite on Sep. 15, 2021 / Colorado-Wyoming Section Notifications / Subscribe 0
On behalf of the CO/WY ITE Section Nominating Committee, we are pleased to announce the following Secretary/Treasurer candidates: Rae Stephani and Adyasha Mishra. You can learn about each candidate by reading their bios below.
Voting for all elected positions will open September 20th, 2021 at 12:00am ET and close on October 7th, 2021 at 11:45pm ET.
Rae Stephani, PE
Rae Stephani is a project engineer at Y2K Engineering. Rae’s background is focused on the mobility of all roadway users with an emphasis on transportation safety and multimodal planning and design. Rae has been involved in ITE since undergrad and knows the importance this organization can have on a career. Rae served as her collegiate ITE chapter’s treasurer and met her current employer coordinating over receipts for meeting sponsorships. Rae moved to Colorado from Flagstaff, Arizona with the opening of Y2K’s Denver office in 2020 and is excited to continue to build on her history of involvement with ITE with the CO/WY section.
Aside from her engineering pursuits, Rae enjoys spending time outside with her husband and dogs. They are adding a kiddo to the mix in November and are looking forward to exploring their new Colorado backyard, baby in tow! Rae is an enthusiastic hiker, runner, camper, kayaker, hunter and lover of all things outdoors.
At Y2K, Rae has been involved in many successful corridor planning studies with a focus on improving the safety and connectivity of the multimodal network. Rae has experience leveraging technology tools to develop software tools that have real-time data connections, respond to changing variables, and display interactive dashboards for visualization of data. Rae has had the privilege of presenting these tools and their applications at several ITE conferences.
Rae has been involved in young member committees and several mentor/protégé programs for both ITE and WTS in CO and AZ throughout her career. She is passionate about cultivating involvement in professional organizations and providing support to students in the early stages their career. In 2019/2020, Rae taught a traffic engineering course at Northern Arizona University and has continued to support the NAU ITE student chapter with presentations and facilitating student internships.
Rae understands the importance of ITE as an opportunity to build relationships and share ideas. Furthermore, she knows that the CO/WY section ROCKS. As Secretary/Treasurer, Rae is committed to increasing participation by supporting the board and executive committee in their efforts to put on events and activities that are fun, engaging and provide value to participants. Rae is approachable, outgoing, organized, and ready to take on this role. She is excited to serve the CO/WY section in any capacity and thankful for your consideration to vote for her as Secretary/Treasurer.
Watch Rae's Candidate Speech Here
Adyasha Mishra
Adyasha is a passionate engineer who as a kid was always amazed by the hi-tech infrastructure around her and wanted to be the brains behind it, hence she chose to be a civil engineer. Adyasha has been working in the corporate industry for 3 years after completing her Masters’ in Transportation Systems from ASU. She started working for a Traffic Control Device Company in Phoenix until she was hired by WSP in Denver and has been with them for almost 2 years now working as a Traffic Engineer. She believes in the motto ‘Learning never ends’ so she is currently pursuing her second masters’ degree in Project Management from Harrisburg University while working fulltime for WSP.
Adyasha was introduced to ITE when she was a student at ASU and she was elected as the Internal Liaison for the ASU ITE team. Now after moving to Denver, she wants to be a part of ITE again and contribute towards the ITE family.
Adyasha started her career working as a TCP (Traffic Control Plans) Designer and now works as a traffic design engineer. She was responsible for the MOT and detour plans for the billion-dollar C-70 renovation project where she assisted with signal design, temporary roadway design and coordination with other disciplines for closures, realignments etc. She also has a lot of experience in traffic analysis. She assisted the Texas team in evaluating five major intersections in Odessa district and assess the performance of the intersections in response to the high truck percentage in the area.
When she’s not designing roads, she’s designing on a canvas. She loves to paint and hopes to have her own art gallery someday but for now, her basement is her gallery. Apart from painting, she loves to travel. She has been to 44 states in the US in last 3 years after she started working, wants to make it a full 50 soon but Covid has been slowing her down. If not a civil engineer, she would be a travel vlogger or an event planner or an interior designer.
She is very excited and looks forward to being able to contribute to the ITE society by having the opportunity to serve as Secretary/Treasurer next year. The extremely talented team of board members are very driven professionals and that constantly motivates her. Her sociable personality will be an asset to the ITE team and help her grow into future roles on the ITE Board.
Thank you for your consideration!
Watch Adyasha's Candidate Speech Here
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