Omnia Associates

 Jennifer is a bilingual community engagement expert with over 20 years of experience in Bay Area outreach initiatives. She is a seasoned community engagement specialist with experience delivering multilingual outreach, deep stakeholder coordination, and culturally competent engagement for large transportation projects such as SFMTA’, Caltrain Electrification and SFMTA’s transit corridor business marketing in the Tenderloin community. Her approach is rooted in trust-building and accessibility. Jennifer’s hands-on expertise in orchestrating community events and multicultural engagement are invaluable in building trust with diverse stakeholders.

  Greg Parks is a seasoned outreach professional with 20+ years of experience developing multi-year engagement programs. As the public involvement lead for Caltrain’s successfully completed Electrification and Modernization project, Greg worked closely with community and technical stakeholders along the 51-mile project corridor including the CA High Speed Rail Authority, the Caltrain/Amtrak ridership community, and Caltrain tenants such as the Union Pacific Railroad. His experience includes conducting door-to-door outreach, producing technical flyers, coordinating detour notices, and creating leave-behind materials for agency partners and public audiences. His public speaking experience includes presentations at open houses and regional events, and developing a rail safety messaging and outreach program focused on the new overhead contact system (OCS) for the electrified Caltrain system. Greg’s experience leading outreach efforts in support of large-scale transportation mega projects over the past two decades spans the state of California and includes such projects as VTA’s Bart Silicon Valley project, OCTA’s OC Streetcar Project and SANDAG’s Mid-Coast Trolley extension.

  Nicolas Townes, PMP, is a senior engagement strategist with over a decade of experience leading public communication and outreach efforts on many of California’s most complex infrastructure initiatives. Nicolas has a strong background in construction outreach and excels at managing large teams of outreach professionals, having guided multifaceted communications programs for major transportation projects across the state. His portfolio includes directing communications for BSV I, as well as contributing to the planning and community engagement for BSV II. He also supported Caltrain’s Peninsula Corridor Electrification Project, helping to inform and prepare communities during the transition to electric trains. Most recently, Nicolas facilitated numerous CHSR public open houses, where he and his team employed innovative engagement tools like augmented and virtual reality alongside traditional multilingual outreach to answer questions and educate the public. Nicolas draws on these experiences to deliver effective outreach strategies. For example, he managed the Orange County Streetcar engagement program, overseeing both construction outreach and a robust marketing & education effort for Orange County’s first modern streetcar. In that role, he led a comprehensive communications strategy for the $580 million OC Streetcar project, implementing multilingual community outreach methods (surveys, pop-up events, door-to-door canvassing) and coordinating safety education campaigns about the new electrified system.