Current and Past CNT Staff Win Awards
CNT Vice President for Policy, Transportation and Community Development, Jacky Grimshaw was honored last Friday by the League of Women Voters of Chicago for her work at bringing more sustainable transportation to the region. The topic of this year’s “State of the City” was Mass Transportation and its impact on the economy, the environment and the citizens of Chicago.
For over 15 years, Jacky been a leader in transportation issues, locally and nationally. She has established CNT as an innovative leader in transportation policy and advocacy. She has brought together non-traditional transit organizations – like housing, welfare, and job development groups – into the policy discussion and debate for affordable mass transit that actually serves those most in need in low-income communities. Most recently, Jacky and the Transit Future Campaign had been in the forefront of citizen advocacy for the full funding of transit, for reform of the RTA and for a reliable and affordable transit system that reduces the cost of living for households, promotes economic development, improves air quality, and curbs global warming in the Chicago region.
And Carrie Makarewicz, former CNT Research Manager, has been awarded the University of Illinois Alumni Association’s Lou Liay Spirit Award for Extraordinary Alumni Service. The award is bestowed upon one alum per year of the University of Illinois at Chicago “who has consistently demonstrated extraordinary loyalty, commitment, dedication and service to the UI Alumni Association for the betterment of the University of Illinois, and whose name and achievements have become synonymous with their Alma Mater.”
Carrie is currently a doctoral student in the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California Berkeley and a Dwight D. Eisenhower Graduate Fellow. At CNT, Carrie co-authored several reports and studies on housing and transportation, including the “Missed Connections” series on the airline and passenger rail industries; the Surface Transportation Policy Project’s “Driven to Spend”; and a number of studies on Transit-Oriented Development. Notably, Carrie’s contribution to the report on the combined costs of housing and transportation for the Brookings Institution, “The Housing + Transportation Affordability Index”, has led to CNT’s recent interactive mapping website launch, htaindex.org, which looks at the combined housing and transportation costs in 52 metropolitan areas in the U.S. Carrie’s current research focuses on planning equitable and sustainable regions by coordinating the planning for transportation, schools, employment and housing development.
