Meet the people
Brytanee Brown (she/her) / Founder & Principal
Brytanee Brown has built her career on one simple principle: people first. She is the person who is always thinking about people throughout every step of the planning and implementation process. She has had tremendous success throughout her career because she centers people, especially the healing of racialized people through the lens of transportation, arts & culture, and economic development. She has worked to create just mobility outcomes for communities, enact change that responds to their mobility needs and lived experience, and make government accessible for folks that have long been locked out of decisions that impact them.
Before starting her own consulting practice, Brytanee launched several regional and local initiatives. She has complementary work experience in the fields of health equity and affordable housing and has led community engagement projects focused on addressing racial disparities. This unique experience has honed her ability to design comprehensive and crosscutting transportation-related programs, projects, and policies, build coalitions, and deeply understand how vital it is for transportation infrastructure to create healthy communities and connect residents to economic opportunity. She is a McNair Scholar, Next City Vanguard Alum, and daughter of the Black Feminist movement. She has spoken and moderated panels for the American Planning Association, PolicyLink Equity Summit, National Association for City Transportation Officials (NACTO), SPUR, North American Bikeshare Association, among others.
At this moment she is happy to be alive and free, feeding her entrepreneurial spirit, and taking care of her plants.
Katherine Stubbs (she/her)/Transportation Equity Strategist & Program Manager
With a background in public policy, economic & business development, and community impact, Katherine Stubbs has worked in philanthropic, non-profit, government, and private consulting sectors, all of which have been toward her vision for an accessible, inclusive, and liveable future for all—regardless of zip code.
Her work has focused on increasing economic opportunity, mobility, and visibility to low-to-moderate income communities through small business support, grantmaking, and advocacy. While at The Alliance for Community Development, she worked to scale local economies by providing technical assistance, access to capital, and resources to entrepreneurs of color and immigrant entrepreneurs in San Francisco and Oakland. Previously, she led community engagement and travel demand management programs to better meet the needs of transit-dependent residents for Sonoma County Transportation Authority.
She cares deeply about advancing transportation equity and mobility justice, particularly for marginalized communities. She’s excited to join emergent labs as an innovative thought partner and to collaboratively create more accessible and culturally-relevant mobility programs.
Andrew Saephan (he/his)/Engagement Designer & Impact Strategist
Andrew Saephan is a designer and creative based in Oakland, California. He holds a B.A. and a B.S in Landscape Architecture and Forestry with a minor in Sustainable Environmental Design from the University of California, Berkeley.
He draws inspiration from the many diverse experiences and cultures he grew up with in Oakland, CA. His aesthetic and design philosophy often alludes to the rough serenity of the inner city – grass growing in the cracks of oil stained concrete streets as the sun sets in the still urban air against the skyline of telephone poles and apartment buildings. He always tries to incorporate this emotion and thought into his work. He aspires to contribute to making the world a better place through sustainability, design, and justice.
Andrew is also very interested in food, food systems, urban and natural landscapes.On his free time, catch him exploring the world through food and travel, one step and bite at a time.