Staff

Kris Leckie

Policy & Program Analyst

Kris Leckie is a Policy and Program Analyst at the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (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...

Nancy Leon

Finance Manager
Nancy Leon is the Finance Analyst of the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (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 Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from the State University of San Francisco California.

Liza Lutzker

Research Data Analyst

Liza Lutzker, MPH (she/her) is a Research Data Analyst with SafeTREC and a doctoral student in epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Liza earned a BA with majors in Biology and Philosophy from Amherst College and an MPH in Epidemiology from the Yale School of Public Health. She has worked widely across the field of environmental and occupational epidemiology, including at both the Massachusetts and California Departments of Public Health, and for the last 10 years in the Environmental Health Sciences division at the Berkeley School of Public Health....

Lucia Ornelas

Policy and Program Analyst

Lucia Ornelas is a Policy and Program Analyst at UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) where she supports the Community Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Program and Street Story. Prior to joining SafeTREC, she worked with government and non-profit agencies to provide community outreach and education in infectious disease prevention and harm reduction programs. Through her public health work, she is committed to advancing social justice and racial and health equity.

Lucia holds a Master of Public Health from San José State University and a Bachelor of...

SangHyouk Oum

Associate Director, Safety Data and Tools Lead

SangHyouk Oum is Associate Director and the Safety Data and Tools Lead at the University of California Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). SangHyouk has been working on creating and managing various web tools for transportation safety, which include: Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS), California Strategic Highway Safety Plan (SHSP) Tracking Tool, California Tribal Data Viewer, Street Story, etc. His areas of expertise are: transportation safety data, GIS analysis, and web programming.

Lisa Peterson

Communications and Outreach Lead

Lisa is the Communications and Outreach Lead for SafeTREC and manages center communications for outreach, social media, and two traffic safety related websites. Prior to SafeTREC, Lisa worked at the Center for Public Health Practice and Leadership at Berkeley Public Health, where she lead center communications, was co- instructor for courses on health communications and professional development, and coordinated a new media training series. She has also conducted community based public health research, produced videos, led trainings, and coordinated health communication projects with...

David R. Ragland

Founding Director, SafeTREC (2000-2023)

Dr. David R. Ragland was the founding director of the UC Berkeley Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) and an Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. He was the PI on numerous projects funded at SafeTREC (more than $30M since founding the center in 2000).

For nearly 25 years, he worked steadfastly and with great dedication to advance road safety in partnership with faculty, staff, students and traffic safety partners like the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS), California Department...

Glenn Shor

Lecturer
Glenn Shor retired as Research and Policy Advisor at CalOSHA, California Department of Industrial Relations in December 2019. He managed California/BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries program, and worked with Workers’ Compensation Information System (WCIS). From 2010 to 2012, he was on loan as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, US Department of Labor, Washington DC.
He served in several positions in California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) including Project Manager, Chief of Policy and Legislation, and...

Amalia Stahl

Research Data Analyst

Amalia Stahl is a Research Data Analyst at the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at UC Berkeley. She previously attended Georgetown University where she obtained both her B.A. in mathematics and fine arts and her M.S. in data science and analytics.

Heidi Story

Research Administrator