Tracy McMillan, PhD

Tracy brings over 20 years of experience in public health and transportation planning to Nelson\Nygaard with a focus on active transportation, travel behavior, and transportation safety. She is a recognized expert on children’s transportation, having completed some of the earliest work in the area of evaluation of Safe Routes to School projects and the health impacts of the built environment.

Tracy’s background in academia, consulting, and entrepreneurship—along with her lived experiences as a woman, mother, caregiver, and multimodal traveler—informs her approach to projects. She listens to clients and community partners and helps them identify solutions that represent their unique and diverse identities. She brings that fundamental skill and many more to the work she does in active transportation and coordinated plan development, program evaluation, and technical assistance on grant and project development, which has resulted in grant funding for program implementation and the design and construction of critical multimodal infrastructure to improve safety, accessibility, and mobility for communities in need.  

Prior to joining Nelson\Nygaard, Tracy led project evaluation, policy analysis, and community technical assistance on topics related to multimodal transportation safety, accessibility, mobility, and health at UC Berkeley’s Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC). She coordinated project development on older adult transportation mobility, accessibility, and safety as well as on health impacts of emerging technologies on individuals and communities.