Lucy St. John
Lucy St. John entered the Freight Academy in 2023 with a somewhat more extensive background in freight than many of the others she encountered in her cohort. Still, she describes her experience going on field trips to logistics centers and distribution centers, and listening to presentations as “one light bulb moment after another.” In her […]
Jeffrey Brauner
Jeffrey Brauner knows what the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is like—he’s worked there for 10 years. But it was through his experience at the Freight Academy in 2019, when he was Principal Transportation Planner at the Port of New York and New Jersey, that he learned so much more about the […]
Emily Stock
Emily Stock described herself as working on the “outskirts” of freight when she enrolled in the Freight Academy in 2012. At the time, she was the Manager of Rail Planning for the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT), and the most elemental skill she gained from her experience in the Freight Academy was […]
Caroline Mays
When Caroline Mays attended the Freight Academy in 2016, she already had an extensive background as a freight industry professional. She was Freight Branch Manager in the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) at the time she enrolled, and although she had been working in the profession for several years, she remembers learning from the lectures, […]
Brian Hunter
Although it’s been about a decade since Brian Hunter attended the Freight Academy program, the perspectives and insights he gained from the experience have remained with him to this day– from the time he was a district freight coordinator for the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) to his current role as Transportation Planning Manager. The […]