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The Joint Office team also helps coordinate and leverage expertise between the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Department of Transportation to further progress on zero-emission transportation infrastructure. The following people are key contacts for the Joint Office.</p> <p>To request technical assistance or ask a general question, <a href="/contact">contact us</a>.</p> <h2 class="bio-head">Leadership</h2> <div class="usa-card-group"> <div class="desktop:grid-col-6 usa-card usa-card--flag icon-card bio-card"> <div class="usa-card__container left-highlight-card" id="klein"> <div class="bio-card__content"> <img alt="Gabe Klein" class="bio-card__img" src="/files/u/contact/1/photo_upload/optimized-0c2b77b2c9442042cbc93857ccbe8b6c.jpg?e1d1161b23" /> <h2 class="usa-card__heading bio-card__heading"> Gabe Klein </h2> <p class="bio-title">Executive Director</p> <div class="bio-description overflow"> <p>Gabe Klein is the executive director of the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. Previously, he served as the commissioner of the Chicago Department of Transportation and director of the Washington, D.C., District Department of Transportation, where he revamped technology platforms and government processes while focusing on putting people (versus cars) first on city streets. This included launching two of the first and largest solar-powered bikeshare systems in the country and building protected bike lanes and better pedestrian infrastructure for vulnerable citizens citywide, as well as facilitating private services like carshares and rideshares to support city mobility goals.</p> <p>He honed his creativity and leadership skills working in business as vice president at Zipcar and national director of stores at Bikes USA. He also co-founded CityFi, a consulting firm to help city leaders, chief executive officers, and others understand the complexities of 21st century challenges, facilitate people-centric solutions, and use new models and technology-based tools to deliver optimized results. Clients ranged from foreign governments to cities, states, start-ups, and publicly traded companies.</p> <p>In 2015, he published Start-Up City: Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun. The book focuses on revamping how we innovate in cities and rethinking public-private partnerships as technology shapes a dramatically different future. He received a bachelor’s degree in marketing management from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business and an executive certificate in transportation/mobility management from The Wharton School. He also served on the 2020 Biden-Harris Agency Review Team for the U.S. Department of Transportation with a focus on innovation, including transportation electrification and program delivery.</p> </div> </div> <div class="more-less" aria-hidden="true"> <a href="" class="bio-link-toggle bio-link-closed"> <span class="bio-link-less"><i class="fas fa-minus-square fa-fw"></i>LESS</span> <span class="bio-link-more"><i class="fas fa-plus-square fa-fw"></i>MORE</span> </a> </div> </div> <script src="/vite/assets/bio_card-bf0d42c4.js" crossorigin="anonymous" type="module"></script> </div> <div class="desktop:grid-col-6 usa-card usa-card--flag icon-card bio-card"> <div class="usa-card__container left-highlight-card" id="nealer"> <div class="bio-card__content"> <img alt="Rachael Nealer" class="bio-card__img" src="/files/u/contact/2/photo_upload/optimized-4a88b4f94110958d4b4b134c720a1106.jpg?91cb5824b9" /> <h2 class="usa-card__heading bio-card__heading"> Rachael Nealer </h2> <p class="bio-title">Deputy Director</p> <div class="bio-description overflow"> <p>Dr. Rachael Nealer is the deputy director for the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. She also chairs the Transportation Research Board’s Alternative Fuels and Technologies Committee. Throughout her career, she has focused on researching transportation as a system of systems and developing strategies around how to decarbonize transportation through technology development in concert with supporting policies.</p> <p>Previously, she held various positions, including deputy director of transportation technology and policy for the White House Council on Environmental Quality and senior advisor and chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell, and Vehicle Technologies Offices. She has also worked in the nonprofit sector, at the Union of Concerned Scientists, researching the lifetime environmental impacts of electric vehicles compared to gasoline vehicles. Before that, she worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuels Standard Office.</p> <p>She received her joint doctorate in civil and environmental engineering and engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University, where she specialized in the lifecycle environmental impacts of transportation.</p> </div> </div> <div class="more-less" aria-hidden="true"> <a href="" class="bio-link-toggle bio-link-closed"> <span class="bio-link-less"><i class="fas fa-minus-square fa-fw"></i>LESS</span> <span class="bio-link-more"><i class="fas fa-plus-square fa-fw"></i>MORE</span> </a> </div> </div> <script src="/vite/assets/bio_card-bf0d42c4.js" crossorigin="anonymous" type="module"></script> </div> <div class="desktop:grid-col-6 usa-card usa-card--flag icon-card bio-card"> <div class="usa-card__container left-highlight-card" id="hipel"> <div class="bio-card__content"> <img alt="Sarah Hipel" class="bio-card__img" src="/files/u/contact/4/photo_upload/optimized-7ab6f0bb57bf6fe192a2de4c97374bd6.png?f37f176d3a" /> <h2 class="usa-card__heading bio-card__heading"> Sarah Hipel </h2> <p class="bio-title">Acting Chief Technology Officer</p> <div class="bio-description overflow"> <p>Sarah Hipel is the acting chief technology officer within the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, where she leads innovation and strategy to advance electric and connected mobility and infrastructure development. Previously, she served as the standards and reliability program manager, overseeing a portfolio that included reliability metrics, charging protocols and standards, cybersecurity guidance, best practices, and tools for collaboration and product development. An accomplished engineer with a passion for e-mobility, Sarah specializes in interoperable mobility infrastructure. She has extensive experience in the electric and connected vehicle fields, with strong technical proficiency in high-voltage charging, commercial vehicle design, and advanced security control strategies.</p> <p>Sarah is recognized for her expertise in mobility industry strategy, program planning and development, resource management, technical system design, and performance evaluation. She is also an expert in regression, acceptance, unit, contract, and interoperability testing. With a career defined by leadership and technical excellence, Sarah continues to advance the vision of connected, electric, autonomous, and secure mobility solutions, positioning the Joint Office as a leader in the clean transportation revolution.</p> <p>Sarah has a B.S. in analytic philosophy from Eastern Michigan University.</p> </div> </div> <div class="more-less" aria-hidden="true"> <a href="" class="bio-link-toggle bio-link-closed"> <span class="bio-link-less"><i class="fas fa-minus-square fa-fw"></i>LESS</span> <span class="bio-link-more"><i class="fas fa-plus-square fa-fw"></i>MORE</span> </a> </div> </div> <script src="/vite/assets/bio_card-bf0d42c4.js" crossorigin="anonymous" type="module"></script> </div> <div class="desktop:grid-col-6 usa-card usa-card--flag icon-card bio-card"> <div class="usa-card__container left-highlight-card" id="willingham"> <div class="bio-card__content"> <img alt="Jonathan Willingham" class="bio-card__img" src="/files/u/contact/12/photo_upload/optimized-121ab2d3ab223c9f28428e73fc274f53.jpg?7011392dce" /> <h2 class="usa-card__heading bio-card__heading"> Jonathan Willingham </h2> <p class="bio-title">Chief of Staff</p> <div class="bio-description overflow"> <p>Jonathan Willingham is the chief of staff for the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. His career has focused on strategic planning, operational leadership, and political management. Serving as chief of staff to Mary Cheh for 14 years, he acted as Chair of the Committee on Transportation and the Environment at the Council of the District of Columbia, overseeing the operations of both her personal and committee offices.</p> <p>In addition to a heavy focus on economic policy, he worked on issues related to electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, personal delivery devices, transportation network companies, and public-private partnerships for infrastructure. The committee advanced some of the most progressive multimodal and environmentally conscious transportation legislation in the country, including measures that expanded public electric vehicle (EV) charging and required make-ready EV charging infrastructure in all new buildings in the District of Columbia.</p> <p>Before working in government, Willingham was a litigation attorney serving as law clerk to the Hon. Geoffrey M. Alprin of the District of Columbia Superior Court. He received his legal degree from the George Washington University Law school, where he taught legal writing and rhetoric as a visiting associate professor and professorial lecturer in law. He also served for ten years on the board of the GW Law Alumni Association, two years as president, and participated in two decanal searches. His bachelor's degree is from Wake Forest University, where he has served on several boards, including his current role on the Alumni Council.</p> </div> </div> <div class="more-less" aria-hidden="true"> <a href="" class="bio-link-toggle bio-link-closed"> <span class="bio-link-less"><i class="fas fa-minus-square fa-fw"></i>LESS</span> <span class="bio-link-more"><i class="fas fa-plus-square fa-fw"></i>MORE</span> </a> </div> </div> <script src="/vite/assets/bio_card-bf0d42c4.js" crossorigin="anonymous" type="module"></script> </div> </div> <h2 class="bio-head">Program Managers and Senior Advisors</h2> <div class="usa-card-group"> <div class="desktop:grid-col-6 usa-card usa-card--flag icon-card bio-card"> <div class="usa-card__container left-highlight-card" id="bailey"> <div class="bio-card__content"> <img alt="Linda Bailey" class="bio-card__img" src="/files/u/contact/10/photo_upload/optimized-b0cfa156be6906491a4645b915be66ee.jpg?851b492343" /> <h2 class="usa-card__heading bio-card__heading"> Linda Bailey </h2> <p class="bio-title">Technical Assistance Program Manager</p> <div class="bio-description overflow"> <p>Linda Bailey is the program manager for technical assistance within the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation. Linda leads efforts to help states, cities, counties, and tribes succeed as the United States expands infrastructure for a low-carbon transportation future.</p> <p>Prior to this position, Linda served as the Vision Zero director for the District of Columbia Department of Transportation (DDOT). She led efforts to accelerate and innovate traffic safety improvements throughout the District. Before that, she served as the executive director of the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), where she worked on policy initiatives to support more sustainable city transportation at the national level, including everything from regulatory support for multimodal street design to automated vehicles.</p> <p>During her tenure as executive director and previously as an adviser, NACTO published three new national design guides for bicycle facilities, urban streets, and transit-first streets. These publications enabled cities to hone best practices for building city streets that further each community’s vision for its future. Previously, she worked for the City of New York on projects including climate policy, vision zero, expressway removal, advocacy for better federal support of city transportation projects, and collaboration with the State of New York on federally funded projects.</p> <p>Overall, Linda has over twenty years of experience working on sustainable transportation policies with work that has spanned research, advocacy, and implementation. Her publications include The Broader Connection between Public Transportation, Energy Conservation and Greenhouse Gas Reduction, Aging Americans: Stranded without Options, and Improving Metropolitan Decision Making in Transportation: Greater Funding and Devolution for Greater Accountability. She also contributed to the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide, the NACTO Urban Bikeway Design Guide, Mean Streets, Measuring the Health Effects of Sprawl, Clearing the Air; and Driven to Spend.</p> <p>Ms. Bailey has a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Michigan.</p> </div> </div> <div class="more-less" aria-hidden="true"> <a href="" class="bio-link-toggle bio-link-closed"> <span class="bio-link-less"><i class="fas fa-minus-square fa-fw"></i>LESS</span> <span class="bio-link-more"><i class="fas fa-plus-square fa-fw"></i>MORE</span> </a> </div> </div> <script src="/vite/assets/bio_card-bf0d42c4.js" crossorigin="anonymous" type="module"></script> </div> <div class="desktop:grid-col-6 usa-card usa-card--flag icon-card bio-card"> <div class="usa-card__container left-highlight-card" id="friedman"> <div class="bio-card__content"> <img alt="Alice Friedman" class="bio-card__img" src="/files/u/contact/16/photo_upload/optimized-f4c534be2d95a89d8aeedf449bee9438.jpg?660e0af459" /> <h2 class="usa-card__heading bio-card__heading"> Alice Friedman </h2> <p class="bio-title">Data and Analysis Program Manager</p> <div class="bio-description overflow"> <p>Alice Friedman is the program manager for data and analysis for the Joint Office. During her nearly 20 years of experience in public policy and technology, Alice has focused on efficient and effective public service delivery and policy implementation. She was most recently a Product Manager in the technology sector, where she worked with a team of data scientists to develop traffic metrics based on probe data to support multi-modal transportation planning. 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