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2 Chairman Phil Mendelson
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6 A PROPOSED RESOLUTION
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11 IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
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16 To appoint Ms. Tracy Hadden Loh as a principal member of the Board of Directors of the
17 Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.
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19 RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this
20 resolution may be cited as the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
21 Authority Tracy Hadden Loh Appointment Resolution of 2021.
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23 Sec. 2. The Council of the District of Columbia appoints:
24 Ms. Tracy Hadden Loh
25 43rd Street NW
26 Washington, D.C. 20015
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28 as a principal member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
29 Authority, in accordance with section 5 of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
30 Compact, approved November 6, 1966 (80 Stat. 1324; D.C. Official Code 9-1107.01(5)), and
31 the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Board of Directors Act of 2012, effective
32 April 27, 2013 (D.C. Law 19-286; D.C. Official Code 9-1108.11), replacing Stephanie Gidigbi,
33 for a term to end June 30, 2025.
34 Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia shall transmit a copy of this resolution,
35 upon its adoption, to the appointee, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and to
36 the Office of the Mayor.
37 Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately upon the first date of publication in
38 the District of Columbia Register.
Tracy Hadden Loh, PhD
Fellow
Bass Center for Transformative Placemaking
Metropolitan Policy Program
Brookings Institution
Other Work Experience
Senior Data Scientist Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis Home:
George Washington University 43rd St NW
2016 2019 Washington, DC
Ward 1 Representative City Council 20015
City of Mount Rainier, MD
May 2015 February 2017 Contact:
Director of Research Rails-to-Trails Conservancy
20122016
Program Manager Transportation Alternatives Data Exchange
20082012
Select Writing from Brookings
Hadden-Loh, T., and D.W. Rowlands. (2021) Reinvesting in urban cores can revitalize entire
regions. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Available online.
Hadden-Loh, T., and J. Kim. (2021) To recover from COVID-19, downtowns must adapt.
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Available online.
Hadden-Loh, T., and H. Love. (2021) Why activity centers are the building blocks of inclusive
regional economies. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Available online.
Hadden-Loh, T., and A. Goger. (2020) In the age of American megaregions, we must rethink
governance across jurisdictions. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Available online.
Hadden-Loh, T. and L. Fishbane. (2020) COVID-19 makes the benefits of telework obvious.
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Available online.
Hadden-Loh, T., and J. Kim. (2020) Economic mapping can help cities target the best places for
density and growth. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Available online.
Fun Biographical Notes
Native Washingtonian and DCPS graduate
Two daughters ages 7 and 2, who love riding the bus
My only viral tweet ever was about a friends Metrorail-themed wedding
Tracy Hadden Loh, PhD
Additional Select Publications
Hadden-Loh, T., C. Leinberger, and J. Chafetz. (2019) Foot Traffic Ahead: Ranking walkable
urbanism in Americas largest metros. Washington, DC: Center for Real Estate and Urban
Analysis. Available online.
Leinberger, C., and T. Hadden-Loh. (2018) Catalytic development: (Re)creating walkable urban
places. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Available online.
Lowry, M., and T. Hadden-Loh. (2017) Quantifying bicycle network connectivity. Preventive
Medicine, Vol. 95(Suppl), pp. S134-S140. Available online.
Lowry, M., Furth, P., and T. Hadden-Loh. (2016) Prioritizing new bicycle facilities to improve low-
stress network connectivity. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 86, pp. 124-
140.
Hadden-Loh, T. and A.L. Smith. (2012) Making the journey a destination. Public Roads Magazine,
Vol. 75(6). Available online.
Hadden-Loh, T., Walljasper, J., Sonenklar, D., Mills, K., and D. Levinger. (2011) Active transportation
beyond urban centers. Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, Washington, DC. Available online.
Education
Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning Sc.B. in Computational Math
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Brown University
December 2012 May 2004
Environmental Protection Agency Science
to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellow, 20072010
Service
Contributor and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors
Greater Greater Washington
Member, Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation, the Transportation Research Board of
the National Academy of Sciences
February 2015February 2021
Member and Secretary, Board of Directors, Gateway Community Development Corporation
20152017
Member and Chair, Citizens Advisory Committee, the Transportation Planning Board of the
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
20122014