Greatest achievement: My greatest professional achievement has been helping to grow the Scarborough office of Barton & Loguidice. I have enjoyed helping to build existing client relationships, hiring new employees and bringing in new clients.
Passion project: I am passionate about increasing infrastructure and access to active transportation. I would love to see more protected bike lanes, sidewalks and shared use paths funded, designed and constructed.
Lightbulb moment: Throughout my career, we have seen safety issues for people using our transportation network and recently we have seen a big spike in pedestrian injuries and fatalities. This data and my own experiences feeling unsafe on the roads while running and biking inform my design and drive me to improve our transportation infrastructure.
Influential book: “A Man Called Ove,” by Fredrik Backman
Favorite movies or TV show: Anything from “Guardians of the Galaxy” to “Once” to “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?”
Personal hero: My personal heroes are the women who make up the Maine chapter of WTS [originally Women’s Transportation Seminar]. I don’t often have the opportunity to see women in leadership in my field and seeing so many influential leaders in transportation in WTS has been enormously helpful to my career.
Favorite Quote: “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet.” — L.M. Montgomery
Best way to recharge: I have been enjoying participating in triathlons. You can often find me swimming, biking and running in Maine’s beautiful outdoors.
Maine’s biggest challenge: From a transportation perspective, Maine’s biggest challenge is also one of our biggest assets, our rural nature and large natural spaces. We are so lucky to have beautiful forests and coastline, but this also means we have a lot of miles of transportation infrastructure to maintain.
Dinner party guests: I would invite Megan Rapinoe, Michelle Obama and Maggie Smith, three influential women from three different industries.
