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When Jan Campbell was denied a teaching job because of her disability, before the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, she focused her career on civil and human rights. She served for 23 years as the Disability Project Coordinator for the city of Portland and Multnomah County.

Campbell now works with Multnomah County Aging, Disability and Veterans Services, and is interim director of the Disability Awareness Resource Team (DART). As a founding member of TriMet鈥檚 CAT Committee, Campbell works to eliminate barriers so public transit can be truly accessible to everyone.

鈥淭he ways I serve my community is to be actively involved with groups that can make positive change, and to get disability on their agenda,鈥� she said, noting people with disabilities often are not included in such groups.

Campbell also is a commissioner for Oregon鈥檚 Disability Commission (ODC) and a member of the Northwest ADA Center鈥檚 Regional Advisory Committee. Her professional honors include a lifetime achievement award from the ODC, and the 2015 Women of Achievement Award by the Oregon Commission for Women.

Kate MacKinnon Kiser serves as board chair of the Oregon ACE mentorship program, with which she has been involved since 2006. With more than 20 years of professional experience, Kiser has built her career on developing team capacity and fostering collaborative problem-solving approaches.

Kiser began her architectural career during a recession, when younger staff had opportunities to take on expanded responsibilities. That experience shaped her leadership philosophy centered on creating positions of opportunity while providing support and removing obstacles for team members.

Kiser has been a regular volunteer with Habitat for Humanity and previously served as a facilitator volunteer for the League of Women Designers. Her professional focus emphasizes the value of diverse perspectives in reaching optimal solutions, working from the principle that teams accomplish more together than individuals working alone. Throughout her career, she has prioritized building confidence in others across all career stages, viewing project delivery as a long-term process offering continuous growth opportunities.

TriMet design manager Fiona Lyon has spent 16 years advancing transit-oriented development and environmental planning across the Portland region. She has secured significant grant funding to expand transit agency value and built public-public partnerships between local agencies, creating multiplier effects on regional investments.

Lyon represents the Oregon chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects on the Executive Committee of the AIA Urban Design Panel and serves TriMet on the Metro Technical Advisory Committee. She provides regular mentorship to students at UC Berkeley, Portland State University and the University of Oregon pursuing careers in environmental planning, transit-oriented development, and urban design.

Lyon noted that many leaders she admires 鈥渁re modest, consistent, and lead by elevating the voices of others,” particularly community leaders and public service peers who work to improve their communities.

She volunteers with Friends of Trees, p:ear, Solve, SAVE International, and she collaborates with the International Society of Arboriculture and regional land use and transportation policy organizations.

Jody Yates joined PBOT in 2007 as a project manager, working on the U.S. Congresswoman Darlene Hooley Pedestrian Bridge at Gibbs Street, and served as the city鈥檚 liaison to Multnomah County鈥檚 Sellwood Bridge replacement project through its design phase.

She went on to become a division manager in Maintenance Operations, interim group manager for Parking Services and principal engineer in Development, Permitting & Transit before leaving PBOT in 2018 to work for the city of Beaverton. She returned to PBOT Maintenance Operations as group director in 2022.

Yates is a licensed professional environmental civil engineer and holds bachelor鈥檚 and master鈥檚 degrees in civil engineering with an emphasis on environmental engineering. She also has more than 23 years of public works knowledge at the local level with experience in capital project design, construction management, development and permit engineering, maintenance operations management and parking management.