Areli Ariana Balderrama is a Policy and Program Analyst at SafeTREC. They hold a BA in Comparative Literature, a minor in Black Studies from UC Santa Barbara, and a Master of Public Health + a Master of Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan. Through their experience in data visualization, policy and research, they will support projects that promote healthier and safer communities.
Ipsita Banerjee is a transport planner with interests in sustainability, transit research, and travel demand analysis. She has worked at SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher and as a policy and program analyst. In her present role as Research Data Analyst, she works on Caltrans’s project on Safe Systems Research and Implementation. Outside of SafeTREC, she has led efforts on travel demand analysis of Electronics City commuters, and ridership prediction for a transit authority, both for the city of Bangalore, India. She was also a lecturer at UC Berkeley, teaching the graduate course on...
Jeffrey Chang is a Research Administrator at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). He assists the Finance Manager in administering SafeTREC's finances and also works with research staff to help coordinate project activities. He started working at SafeTREC as a student assistant, and after receiving his degree in Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley, joined SafeTREC full-time.
Katherine Chen is the Public Engagement and Policy Lead at SafeTREC where she coordinates multidisciplinary transportation injury prevention planning and research. She manages the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program (CPBSP) as well as projects involving active transportation, teen driver safety, community-level safety planning, and statewide highway safety planning.
Previously, Katherine coordinated public health research with community health centers and served as an Emerson National Hunger Fellow. She received her BA in Public Health from UC Berkeley and MPP from the...
At SafeTREC, Jarah coordinates Street Story: a community engagement platform that collects information about transportation collisions, near-misses, hazards, or safe places to travel. She provides technical assistance to organizations and agencies on how to use the tool within the communities they serve. Jarah also serves as support staff for the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training program.
Previously, Jarah worked as a Biorepository Specialist at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. In this capacity, she collected health information, blood specimens and...
Liwei Fu is the Applications Programmer at SafeTREC. She works on taking a data-driven approach to help resolve traffic safety issues. She is involved in building crowdsourced data tools, tribal data analysis, and various other traffic injury mapping tools. She has experience in data management and statistical models, and works with time series and spatial data.
Julia is the Safety Research Lead at SafeTREC and serves as technical lead on projects related to bicyclist and pedestrian safety. Her research expertise and interests include collection and processing of nonmotorized transportation data, bicyclist and pedestrian and exposure modeling, improving access to safety data, and bicyclist level of service measures.
Julia developed her first pedestrian exposure model for her master's thesis in Geography at San Francisco State in 2006. She began working at SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher in 2009, continued as a postdoctoral scholar...
Adrienne L. Joseph is one of UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center’s (SafeTREC) Research Administrators. She is part of the Administrative team and is primarily responsible for the center’s procurement as well as grant administration. Adrienne has worked for UC Berkeley for over 20 years and holds an Associates Degree in Accounting from Heald Business College.
Simon Kao is an Application Programmer at the University of California Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). Simon's current projects include building web applications for safety and exposure data. He received his MS in Computer Science from Brown University.
Kristen Leckie is a Policy & Program Analyst at the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). They will be supporting the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) program and active transportation communications. Prior to joining SafeTREC, Kristen worked as a Senior Community Organizer at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition where they worked alongside community members, advocacy groups and city agencies to implement bike and pedestrian safety projects. In particular, they led major projects to reprioritize park spaces for...