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2022 WTS-IE Rosa Parks Diversity Leadership Award: Georgia Medina, PE

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Georgia Medina

Georgia is a Project Manager at Moffatt & Nichol with over 20 years of experience helping clients navigate Caltrans project development process. Specialized in understanding Caltrans Permit, DEER and Oversight processes, Georgia uses that experience to help advance projects from conceptual phase to construction. Having spent most of her career dedicated to carrying projects through multiple phases, seeing these projects constructed brings an extra sense of accomplishment. By communicating what to expect over the course of a project, she has established herself as a trusted advisor to clients and colleagues.

Georgia may spend her days focused on projects, but it’s her desire to always keep learning that gets her up in the morning. This desire led her to become a founding member of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) statewide Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee in August 2020. The Committee’s mission includes increasing awareness of the need for DEI, sharing data to demonstrate how DEI improves profitability, and developing resources to support member firms seeking to implement DEI strategies. After two years of planning, the Committee launched its first DEI webinar series in September 2022 and has more planned for 2023. Now serving a third term as Vice Chair, Georgia’s passion for DEI continues to grow and she is grateful for the opportunity to help promote DEI in the workplace.

Her interest in civil engineering began as a high school student studying Rubber Included Concrete in a University of Pennsylvania research lab as part of a summer program. Her focus narrowed to the transportation industry with a 1998 internship at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) followed by multiple internships at Los Angeles World Airports (LAX).