Our Team

Jessica Mortell

Principal | Sr Placemaker

With a decade of experience in multi-modal transportation planning and design, Jessica is leading the growth and direction of the Neighborways team.

She specializes in Complete Streets and traffic calming with an emphasis on placemaking, art, and community building. Jessica takes a holistic approach that is creative, pragmatic, and focused on sustainable living. Her mission is to create vibrant, beautiful, connected communities with choices for how we live in and move. She's helped design over 100 miles of retrofit bicycle facilities from separated bike lanes to neighborways (aka bike boulevards) and excels at public speaking. She served as an elected Board Member and President of the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals (APBP) from 2012-2017. With a passion for traveling, she backpacked car-free across the US, bicycled from Boston to Fargo, ND, and has experienced transportation networks across the globe from China, to Ecuador, and Hawaii.

Principal | Sr Planner

Mark has 20 years of experience fostering innovation in sustainable transportation practices ranging from development of new transportation products and services, resolving parking problems, to researching, publishing and assessing transportation related topics. He founded Neighborways in his hometown of Somerville in 2015 from a grassroots effort to improve walkability and bikability in his neighborhood. Mark is an industry thought-leader inspiring the next generation of planners and plangineers, and helping spread the neighborways movement far and wide.

Mark Chase

Liz LaManche

Director of Art + Graphic Design

Liz LaManche’s public art installations can be found sparkling across the Boston area and nationally. With a degree in architecture and experience in software product design and graphic design, they specialize in bringing project vision to life. Liz enjoys navigating the many spheres of the public and built environment to help create beauty and meaning in our shared spaces. Artist website: Earthsign Studios

Liza Burkin

Sr Planner

Liza Burkin is a transportation planner, policy analyst, project manager, researcher, community organizer, and communications professional skilled at building the human infrastructure necessary to change physical infrastructure. Liza has spent the last 12 years advancing active and public transit systems in roles ranging from grassroots advocacy to private consulting to federal policymaking. In addition to her planning role at Neighborways, she is the founder and Board President of the Providence Streets Coalition. Liza is happiest when channeling and operationalizing her stubborn optimism in a future that holds safe, equitable, and sustainable mobility for all.

Ainsley Judge

Planner

Ainsley brings 15+ years experience organizing communities around equitable access to biking, walking, and the outdoors (urban and beyond) from the Midwest to New England. Across her work and life she prioritizes creativity and the enjoyment of getting somewhere. She lives in Portland, ME where she helped start a nonprofit community bike shop, the Portland Gear Hub. She continued to serve as Gear Hub's Director for 10 years, expanding its programming and setting it up for long-term success. She is thrilled to be able to apply the same visioning and meaningful facilitation of walking and biking with Neighborways Design.

Professional Engineer

David offers pragmatic engineering expertise to support innovative and sustainable street designs. Drawing from a multi-modal and pedestrian-first framework, he applies engineering standards to urban design, traffic engineering, signal design and traffic management plans. David knows when and how to bring engineering judgement to bear on difficult design problems that require creativity. Furthermore he understands the realities of construction and budgets, providing insights into how to build effective and lower cost safety improvements while paying attention to community goals and a sense of place in his designs.

David Moyer

GIS Analyst

Collin is a senior at Boston University studying Earth & Environmental Science with minors in GIS and Urban Studies. At Neighborways Design, he focuses on creating neighborhood maps and wayfinding efforts that help residents and visitors navigate their community. By designing colorful maps and signs, Collin combines his geospatial and creative skills. In his free time, Collin enjoys exploring Boston's different neighborhoods and cooking for his friends.

Collin Leong

Community Builder

Alex Cherry started at Neighborways in the spring of 2025 and his work has been focused on placemaking, outreach, active transportation, and media for projects throughout the Boston metro. As a current master's student at Tufts University, Alex is interested in the intersection of land use and transportation, with a particular interest in using statistical analysis to explore urban issues. Apart from Neighborways projects or studying, you can find him biking the Northern Strand up to Nahant beach or on an adventure in northern New England!

Alex Cherry

Artist | Graphic Design

Sury Chavez brings Neighborways work to life through her photo-realistic renderings and painted murals. As an East Boston native, artist and teacher Sury’s bilingual communication skills and ability to capture people’s imagination helps create cherished, vibrant streetscapes. Her artwork is featured on Neighborways projects along Division Street in Chelsea and Unity Ave in Revere, and graces wall-fronts and stores throughout the northern Mystic communities. Artist website: www.galeriadechuwi.com

Sury Chavez

Sury Chávez trae a los vecinos trabajos a través de sus rendimientos fotorealistas y murales. Como una nativa, artista y maestra oriental de Boston, las habilidades bilingües de comunicación de Sury y la capacidad de captar la imaginación de las personas ayudan a crear un paisaje callejero preciado y vibrante. Su obra de arte se encuentra en proyectos de vecinos a lo largo de la calle Division en Chelsea y Unity Ave en Revere, y gracias a los muros y tiendas de todas las comunidades nortes de Mystic. Sitio web del artista: www.galeriadechuwi.com