{"id":8631,"date":"2025-01-20T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T20:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=8631"},"modified":"2025-02-20T12:26:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T20:26:16","slug":"introducing-our-new-assistant-director-hadar-albo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/introducing-our-new-assistant-director-hadar-albo\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Our New Assistant Director, Hadar Albo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/introducing-our-new-assistant-director-hadar-albo\/hadar_albo\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8632\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8632\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Hadar_Albo-97x65.jpg 97w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PacTrans welcomes\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Hadar<\/span>\u00a0Albo, our new Assistant Director.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Hadar<\/span>\u00a0has eight years of experience in the transportation industry, both in the private sector and in public agencies. She received her degree in civil engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and is a licensed professional engineer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Hadar<\/span>\u2019s previous role before PacTrans was an engineer with the City and County of Denver, where she focused on multimodal projects as a member of the transportation implementation design team. Her experience in transportation consulting while working for the private sector has ranged from working for a small ten person local firm (Parisi Transportation Consulting) to a 300+ person firm where she worked on multimodal improvements around the country (Toole Design Group).\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Hadar<\/span>\u00a0is passionate about projects that have meaningful impacts in providing transportation solutions to underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Hadar<\/span>\u00a0sat on the board of the Colorado chapter of Women in Transportation Seminar from 2023-2025, where she was responsible for the committee that runs the student outreach program to help young girls in elementary, middle and high school learn about career opportunities in transportation and in engineering as a whole.\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Hadar<\/span>\u00a0also volunteered as the co-leader of a non-profit workout group, November Project, from 2020-2023 where she organized free accessible workouts twice a week for a group that would average in size around fifty people.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">Hadar<\/span>\u00a0enjoys running, biking, and spending time with her fianc\u00e9e MaryKate and their dog Charlie. She relocated to Seattle for the opportunity to work with PacTrans and is excited to explore all the PNW has to offer.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">We are excited to see PacTrans continue to grow under Hadar&#8217;s leadership.\u00a0Please join us in giving her a warm welcome, and feel free to reach out to her at <a href=\"mailto:halbo@uw.edu\">halbo@uw.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PacTrans welcomes\u00a0Hadar\u00a0Albo, our new Assistant Director.\u00a0Hadar\u00a0has eight years of experience in the transportation industry, both in the private sector and in public agencies. She received her degree in civil engineering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8631"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8638,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8631\/revisions\/8638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}