Meet the 2024 TA Field Team Ambassadors

Transportation Alternatives’ Field Team returns for another season! Our team of ambassadors are out and about across New York City talking about our campaigns, activism, and work in all five boroughs.

Members of the TA Field Team smile for a photo at the seaport

Wasim

Lives in Queens

Wasim is a Field Team Ambassador with Transportation Alternatives. He is keen on contributing to promoting and improving urban planning and street safety for the public. Wasim is currently majoring in physics, passionate about the fundamentals of operational sciences and research. In his spare time, Wasim enjoys visiting new places, frequenting diners, and listening to music.

Favorite campaign: Daylight Every Intersection

Favorite street: The entirety of Queens Boulevard because of its bike lanes

Lemuel

Lives in East New York, Brooklyn

Lemuel grew up in Brooklyn and is dedicated to serving his Borough. He is passionate about transit equity and public infrastructure and wants to create an environment of enhanced accessibility and environmental sustainability. He graduated from Georgetown University with a Bachelor's in Physics and wants to expand New York City's great transit network. He often spends time researching various aspects of the New York City train lines, and his favorite stop is Broadway Junction.

Favorite campaign: Flatbush Streets for People

Favorite Street: Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn

Laura

Lives in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Laura Hughes is a field team ambassador and Brooklyn native with a passion for sustainability and equity. Having organized in New York and Chicago for over 8 years, Laura is excited to advocate for safer and more equitable streets for NYC residents. In her free time, you can find Laura reading in the park or tending to her many house plants.

Favorite campaign: Daylight Every Intersection

Favorite street: West 12th Street

Steven

Lives in Ridgewood, Queens

Steven Castro is incredibly passionate about equitable streets, good gate design, and urban infrastructure. He is excited to work on campaigns throughout the city fueling his passion for envisioning unique solutions in his own and neighboring communities.

Steven is also an avid bike rider, basketball hooper, MMA enthusiast, and anything outdoors. In his free time this summer, he will be strategically biking most of New York City, scoping out the best areas to rest, sketch, and finish reading the Posthuman.

Favorite campaign: Safe Access to Ridgewood Reservoir

Favorite street: Onderdonk Avenue

Michael

Lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

Michael is a field team canvasser and an avid fan of all things tech and transit related. Ever since moving to New York City at the age of 10, he loved taking the subway and transit became an interest of his. He started at TA in 2023 as a high school intern, and worked on the beginnings of the Bike More campaign, petitioning for affordable Citi Bike access for students. In his free time, he enjoys coding, and has a couple iOS app side projects.

Favorite campaign: Citi Bike for Students

Favorite street: Union Avenue, Brooklyn

Kanza

Lives in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Kanza is the Field Team Coordinator with Transportation Alternatives. After graduating with a BA in Sustainability, a minor in French, and a Master of Legal Studies with a track in Sustainability all from Arizona State University, she taught English at middle school and high school levels in France for 2.5 years. Traveling throughout Europe, Morocco, around the States, South Korea, Japan, and Thailand inspired her to return home to the states and apply all she learned about cities to use in her own home of NYC. Novelist, painter, avid reader, runner, daily biker, friend, and daughter, Kanza keeps her time out of work full of her other passions and loves.