Governor Charlie Baker appointed Stephanie Pollack as Secretary of Transportation and CEO of MassDOT in 2015. She worked previously on transportation policy, finance, and equity as associate director for research at the Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University, where she also shared her skills and experience with the next generation of public policy leaders as an adjunct faculty member. She has provided over a decade of strategic consulting on transportation issues to the public and private sectors including the Boston Transportation Department and Massachusetts Port Authority, following a distinguished career at the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston. Pollack has served on numerous boards and advisory bodies including MassDOT’s Transportation Advisory Committee and the Transportation Advisory Committee in her hometown of Newton, MA.