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With the Mpact Podcast, we’re delving deeper into what it takes to build more just and sustainable communities around transit. Look for a new podcast around the start of every month.

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Women wearing masks on train platform Credit ACT-LA
| April 17, 2023

Episode 66: Women Who Ride Transit

We’re joined by Scarlett De Leon, Campaigns Director at Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles and Meghna Khanna, Senior Director, Mobility Corridors, Countywide Planning & Development at Los Angeles Metro.

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RideRTA employee working on a train wheel. Credit Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
| March 7, 2024

Episode 78: Culture Change in Cleveland

A 1-1 Conversation with Billy Terry, Executive Director of the National Transit Institute, and India Birdsong Terry, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority.

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Close up of people boarding a bus. IPhoto.
| February 8, 2024

Episode 77: Public Sentiment and Public Transit

In this 1-1 Conversation, Adelee Le Grand of Intellectual Concepts and Scott Wilkinson of AlphaVu talk about using data analytics and AI to understand what the public is thinking – and act on it.

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Mural in Long Branch along Purple Line Corridor in Maryland. Photo credit Montgomery Housing Partnership
| January 11, 2024

Episode 76: Displacement is More than Housing

We’re joined by Dr. Kathryn Howell, Director of the National Center for Smart Growth and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, for a conversation about bout her daily e-bike commute, organizing around the Purple Line, the importance of eviction data and commercial displacement.

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Speakers at a plenary about health at Mpact Transit + Community. Credit Valley Metro
| December 14, 2023

Episode 75: Health in All Places

Jon Ford of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco leads a conversation with Mimi Narayan from the Pew Charitable Trusts and John Vu from Kaiser Permanente about the connections between transportation, housing and public health.

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view of Yards Bridge Park Capitol Riverfront Washington DC
| November 21, 2023

Episode 74: Downtown or Not Downtown

A dynamic discussion about the future of downtowns and the elements of successful places – downtown or not.

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| October 13, 2023

Episode 73: Older Adults and Climate Emergencies

Our guest is Danielle Arigoni, Managing Director for Policy and Solutions at the National Housing Trust, and author of the new book, Climate Resilience for an Aging Nation. 

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MacArthur TOD, seen from MacArthur station platform. Credit: BART
| September 14, 2023

Episode 72: Leveraging TOD at BART

with Abby-Thorne Lyman, Director of Real Estate and Property Development at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

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Portland Place condominiums in Phoenix, designed in soft desert colors with many ledges and windows. Developed by Habitat Metro
| August 10, 2023

Episode 71: Developing with Creativity

Our guest is Tim Sprague, a Principal with Habitat Metro in Phoenix, Arizona. As an infill developer, Tim has worked on a range of projects, many of them near light rail.

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Tree planting with RAIL CDC in Mesa AZ
| July 13, 2023

Episodes 69 and 70: Do It for the Neighborhood, Parts 1 & 2

Listen to a One-to-One Conversation between David Longoria of LISC in Phoenix and Ryan Winkle from RAIL CDC in Mesa, Arizona.  The two of them discuss the community work they are doing in Mesa, what it takes to earn trust, and getting positive results.



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Cairo bike share with buildings in background Credit Hussein Mahfouz
| June 8, 2023

Episode 68: Micromobility and Access

Our guests are Hussein Mahfouz and Adham Kalila, authors of a new report, All Possible Commutes: How Micromobility and Realistic Car Travel Times Impact Accessibility Analyses

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Women wearing masks on train platform Credit ACT-LA
| April 17, 2023

Episode 66: Women Who Ride Transit

We’re joined by Scarlett De Leon, Campaigns Director at Alliance for Community Transit – Los Angeles and Meghna Khanna, Senior Director, Mobility Corridors, Countywide Planning & Development at Los Angeles Metro.

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A downtown Ambassador talks to a woman working at an outdoor table in Oakland CA. Courtesy Downtown/Uptown CBDs Oakland CA
| March 14, 2023

Episode 65: Caretakers of the Public Realm

We’re joined by Andrew Jones, Program Director for the Uptown and Downtown Community Benefits District (CBD) in Oakland, CA.

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Rendering of a station on the South Dade Bus Rapid Transit line in Miami-Dade County Florida
| February 9, 2023

Episode 64: A County Voice for Transit

We’re joined by Miami-Dade County, Florida, Commissioner Eileen Higgins

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Person waits for the bus next to a transit shelter in LA being used as shelter by a homeless person. Credit LA Metro, Stephanie Wiggins
| January 5, 2023

Episode 63: Homelessness and Public Transportation

A plenary conversation from Rail~Volution 2022 in Miami, with Stephanie Wiggins, CEO of LA Metro;  Leslie Richards, General Manager and CEO of SEPTA in Philadelphia; Diana Stanley, CEO of The Lord’s Place, a homeless services provider in South Florida. Our moderator is Daniel Gibson, Regional Vice President, Miami-Dade, for Allegany Franciscan Ministries.

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