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Cathy Chase is President of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, an alliance of consumer, public health, law enforcement and safety organizations and major property-casualty insurance companies and trade associations. Chase has over 25 years of experience in public policy, law and advocacy across the nonprofit and government sectors. Before joining Advocates in 1996, she held roles at Sasha Bruce Youthwork, Street Law, and in the New Jersey State Assembly, among others. Chase holds a Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers College.

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Before joining Streetsblog in late 2025, J.K. Trotter covered media and politics at Gawker and edited investigations at Business Insider. He studied philosophy at St. John’s College and lives in Queens.

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Alex Milone serves as transit committee co-chair of 5th Square Advocacy, a grassroots organization of urban advocates based in Philadelphia.

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Leslie Vasquez Guzman works as the Outreach Specialist at High Road Strategy Center. She grew up in Selma, California (the raisin capital of the world). Before moving to Wisconsin in 2021, Leslie attended the University of California, Berkeley where she earned degrees in Political Science and Public Policy. Prior to joining High Road Strategy Center, Leslie worked in the educational nonprofit sector where she focused on improving educational equity and resource access for historically underserved students in central California. In her free time, she enjoys going to comedy shows, running, hiking, kayaking, and riding her bike around Madison.

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