#30: Jolene Holland Joins Journey to Launch Our Planner-Led Engagement Practice in Austin!

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Jolene Holland joins Journey! 📢

We’re thrilled to announce that Jolene Holland is joining Journey to launch our planner-led engagement practice in Austin!

Jolene brings ten years of experience bridging technical planning expertise and sharp community instincts to craft innovative engagement strategies. At Journey, Jolene will lead our team to deliver a full suite of planner-led engagement services in Austin – from strategy, messaging, and graphics to meeting facilitation, pop-up events, and surveys.

Why planner-led engagement? Because when engagement is integrated into every project phase – from planning to design to construction – you get smarter, more effective outcomes. And when engagement strategy is directly connected to the technical work? You get outreach that moves people.

Whether it’s light rail construction or major street redesigns, we’re building engagement that supports real behavior change — like using TDM messaging to boost Day One ridership or connecting feedback loops to safer street design.

At Journey, we believe technical insight and community connection go hand in hand. Jolene embodies that balance beautifully. Her background spans everything from equitable TOD to mobility strategy to inclusive public engagement — all with a strong focus on building safer streets.

Ready to get to work? Reach out to the Journey team.

A few interesting things. 🧠

🚲 Biking and Walking: The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center is asking for support to update its active transportation project cost database. More info here.

🏘️ Housing: Moody’s, PolicyMap, and the Reinvestment Fund created a tract-level dataset of housing shortages in 350 cities throughout the US. Check out the data here and the write up here.

🚌 Rural Transit: The Eno Center published a new report focused on opportunities for improving transit in rural areas.

Some fun job postings. 💪

• DDOT in DC just dropped a bunch of new postings across multiple disciplines and experience levels. Visit their job portal and search for the following Job IDs: 30182, 29936, 30155, 29918, 30097, and 29997.

• Sound Transit is hiring a Capital Signage Specialist to support their wayfinding project.

• The City of Seattle is looking for a new manager for their Transportation Options Program.

• The City of Austin is looking for a Project Coordinator to support transit-oriented affordable housing development.

• The City of Denton is hiring a Senior Planner focused on bicycle, pedestrian, and ADA projects.

• The City of Boston just posted a new position on their Transit Team.

A quick Journey update. 🏗️

👩‍🏫 Upcoming Events:

• Movability: Lauren will be at the Moveability Summit in Austin on September 19. Make sure to check out her panel on Best Practices for Employee, Student, & Residential Pass Programs.

• APTA: Dan will be in Boston during the APTA TRANSform Conference on September 14-17.

📚 Book Clubs:

• ACT Book Club: Lauren hosts the monthly Association for Commuter Transportation Book Club. Next month, the club is switching things up a bit and reading Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg. TDM supercommunicator Jeffrey Tumlin will join the next meeting to share his insights and reflections. Sign up here to join us on August 27 at 3:00 PM Eastern / 12:00 PM Pacific.

• Chicago City Builders Book Club: Lauren co-hosts the monthly Chicago City Builders Book Club - check out their new LinkedIn page to learn more.

  Next week, on August 14th, the group will meet up to discuss The Loop: The “L” Tracks That Shaped and Saved Chicago by Patrick T. Reardon. The author will join us and has challenged us to answer the question “how could Chicago be different if we never built the Loop?”

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