Aysha Cohen

Aysha Cohen is the Sustainable Transportation Coordinator for the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) and a contributing author of several Urban Land Institute (ULI) publications on active transportation, stormwater management, corridor redevelopment and affordable housing. Prior to UMD, Aysha worked on nearly 20 transportation and environmental projects for DDOT, WMATA, VDOT, SEPTA, RTA, and the National Partnership for Safe Routes to School, among others, in her role as a Senior Planner at Nspiregreen. Aysha has conducted research with the Fulbright Eco-Leadership program in Canada, the Victoria Transport Policy Institute in Istanbul and the UCLA Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) in Los Angeles. Her research for the District Department of Transportation (DDOT), “Equity in Motion: Bikeshare in Low-Income Communities”, used geospatial statistics to prioritize station-level improvements for Capital Bikeshare in high poverty areas of Washington, DC. She is a co-founder of “The Olive Tree Initiative: Armenia-Turkey”, an interdisciplinary conflict resolution group. She earned her Masters of Urban & Regional Planning (MURP) at UCLA and speaks Spanish, Turkish and English.