Ipsita Banerjee is a transport planner with interests in sustainability, safety, transit research, and travel demand analysis. She has worked at UC Berkeley SafeTREC as a graduate student researcher and as a policy and program analyst. In her present role as a research data analyst, she works primarily on Caltrans’s projects, including Safe Systems Research and Implementation, and Strategies for Reducing Pedestrian and Bicycle Injuries at the Corridor Level. Outside of SafeTREC, she has led efforts on travel demand analysis of work commuters, and ridership prediction for a transit...
Jeffrey Chang is a research administrator at UC Berkeley 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 UC Berkeley 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 B.A. in public health from UC Berkeley and...
Noelani Fixler is a policy and program analyst for UC Berkeley SafeTREC whose work focuses on the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) and Complete Streets Safety Assessments (CSSA) programs. Prior to joining SafeTREC, they completed a transportation planning internship at San Francisco Bay Ferry and a Resilience Fellowship at Greenbelt Alliance. Noelani holds a B.A. in geography from UC Berkeley. Noelani is a committed advocate for public transit, safe streets, and housing. They are the Transportation and Infrastructure Commission Chair in the City of Berkeley, a...
Liwei Fu is the applications programmer at UC Berkeley 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 she works with time series and spatial data.
Julia Griswold is the director of the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). Her current research focuses on implementation of the Safe System Approach in the U.S. and how the framework can be used to improve pedestrian and bicyclist safety, speed management, and road safety management programs. Griswold is also the associate director of the Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS), a Tier-1 University Transportation Center (UTC) supported by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and led by the University of New Mexico (UNM)...
Adrienne L. Joseph is one of UC Berkeley SafeTREC's 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 associate's degree in accounting from Heald Business College.
Simon Kao is an application programmer at UC Berkeley SafeTREC. Simon's current projects include building web applications for safety and exposure data. He received his M.S. in computer science from Brown University.
Kris Leckie is a policy and program analyst at UC Berkeley SafeTREC. They manage the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Training (CPBST) program and support the center with active transportation communications. Prior to joining SafeTREC, Kris worked as a senior community organizer at the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition where they worked alongside community members, advocacy groups, and city agencies reprioritize park spaces for those walking, biking, and rolling with an emphasis on partnering with both senior and disability communities. Kris received a B.A. in anthropology...
Nancy Leon is the finance analyst of UC Berkeley SafeTREC. She supervises the administrative team and manages the center’s funding from several sponsors.
Nancy has worked for UC Berkeley for over 15 years and holds a B.S. in business administration from the State University of San Francisco California.
