This year, three UCLA transportation students received WTS Scholarships.
Jaimee Lederman is currently an Urban Planning PhD student at UCLA. Her research focuses on the intersection between transportation planning, regional governance, and the environment. Before attending UCLA, she was a practicing lawyer and also received a Master_s degree in Economics. Ultimately, she would like to use this knowledge to help transportation planners best approach environmental requirements with the philosophy that incorporating environmental goals into transportation planning is a situation in which everyone wins.
Doreen Zhao is pursuing a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning at UCLA. Currently, she is researching demand-responsive pricing for parking and how cities may better manage their parking supply. She is also interested in new transportation technologies and concepts, such as electric vehicles and ridesharing, and their impacts on our traditional concept of mobility and travel.
Rosa Guillen-Sanchez will receive an M.A. in Urban and Regional Planning with a concentration in Transportation Planning and Policy from the University of California, Los Angeles, in June of 2014. She participated in the WTS-OC 2013 Transportation Academy and is an active member of the Planners of Color for Social Equity at UCLA. Her work experience includes a current internship with the Orange County Transportation Authority and a previous internship with Orange County Works/OC Planning. She completed a research project on the commute and housing cost burdens of people who work at Disneyland and found evidence that some low-wage workers were commuting great distances in order to find affordable housing.
