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The Outreach Specialist at the Coalition for Responsible Transportation Priorities (CRTP) will primarily focus on two projects: (1) Public education and promotion of the crowdsourced traffic safety platform Street Story on California’s North Coast; (2) Organizing public transit riders in the region and advocating for improved transit systems. The Outreach Specialist will also perform some outreach work for other CRTP projects. Throughout all of their work, the Outreach Specialist will center equity and work to empower people in zero-car households, as well as people who are forced into car dependency they can’t afford by a lack of access to high-quality transit, to engage in the processes that impact their ability to get around.
Street Story Outreach
Safety and comfort are prerequisites for any form of transportation. Most areas of the North Coast lack safe, comfortable and complete bike and pedestrian facilities. Thus, people who rely on these modes of transportation are exposed to unacceptable risks, and people who have access to a personal vehicle are unlikely to choose to walk or bike. Making safety improvements requires compelling data and documentation, which is where the Street Story program comes in. Street Story (https://streetstory.berkeley.edu/) is an online platform developed at UC Berkeley which allows anyone to quickly and anonymously report crashes, near-misses, or hazardous locations on the street, and provides public access to the resulting data. The Outreach Specialist will use grassroots strategies as well as traditional media and social media to promote Street Story reporting among residents of Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity Counties, including through active public utilization of information from the more than 1,000 reports already made in the region.
Transit Organizing
Building a more robust and effective public transit system on the North Coast is a key strategy for improving transportation equity, fighting climate change, and strengthening community resilience and economic development. Public transit should serve the needs of people with limited mobility options through a system that provides enough comfort, convenience, and dignity to also attract riders who do have other options. The Outreach Specialist is responsible for building grassroots power among existing transit users to determine current transit needs, envision solutions, and collectively advocate for them. They will educate and mobilize existing transit users to advocate for solutions to current transit needs while also looking forward and advocating for transit-oriented development and land-use planning that centers transit access and mobility.
Visit this page for a detailed job description: https://transportationpriorities.org/job-announcement-outreach-specialist/
