Dan works to build robust, revitalized cities with greener, lower speed, inclusive streets that invite maximum exchange (social, retail, jobs and activities) with minimized trip lengths.

Like education, public safety, and health and wellness, transportation is a critically important bipartisan issue facing our nation.

Working on a national system-change to broaden the civil rights of people with disabilities to transportation.

Josh Baker is the General Manager of Radford Transit and the coordinator of all Facility and Transportation Services for New River Valley Community Services (NRVCS), a public provider of behavioral health services to residents of the New River Valley in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The agency focuses on “Making a Difference by Changing Lives” providing services to the community which include community based programs for mental health, intellectual disabilities, substance use disorders, transportation services and related programs.

My motivation was to gain a better understanding of the problems facing low-income communities and to expand my repertoire of tools needed to address these problems. UCLA’s Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning was the perfect home for my interests in social justice as many of the faculty and students shared similar passions and concerns.