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As part of PacTrans' mission to bring talented professionals into the transportation field, PacTrans provides funding to students seeking transportation-related graduate degrees each year. Michael Corwin is originally from Raleigh, North Carolina. He attended North Carolina State University for his undergraduate study in civil engineering. His work experience began as an undergraduate research assistant at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education, where he assisted in a wide variety of transportation-related research projects. Michael also performed research for Science Applications International Corporation, where he worked in the Saxton Transportation Operations Laboratory near Washington, DC. Before attending the University of Washington, he interned with Kittelson & Associates in Fort Lauderdale, FL for the summer. Currently, he is gaining experience in the public sector, with WSDOT in the Tolling Division. Michael has a wide variety of interests in transportation, including operations, safety, and transit. He plans on focusing on ITS applications to solve various problems in these areas. Upon earning his Master's degree in Civil Engineering, Michael plans on working in the private sector with a transportation consulting firm. Ryan Hughes graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Civil Engineering with honors from Saint Louis University (SLU) in Saint Louis, MO in the spring of 2013. He recently finished a year service with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps where he volunteered as a full time staff member at Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School, a small Catholic school in Brooklyn, NY that serves low income youth. Ryan is passionate about transportation planning, urban development, and the social justice issues related to both. He is currently working as a transportation planning and engineering intern with Fehr & Peers in downtown Seattle. He has experience working in corporate sustainability, hydraulics and hydrology, and transportation planning. Although originally from Louisville, KY, exploring new cities is one of Ryan's favorite activities, and Seattle has kept him busy doing just that. Kelly Fearon is from Gaithersburg, Maryland and she received her undergraduate degree in civil engineering from the University of Delaware. She has worked for the Gaithersburg Public Works Department and Maryland State Highway in the Inspection Division. She also worked on designing stormwater management plans last summer for Stantec. Currently, she is working as an intern for WSDOT Tolling Division. She is primarily interested in the planning aspects of transportation and hopes to find a job in this field after graduating. In her free time she likes to read and hike. Jackson Lester is originally from Lexington Kentucky, and received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Tulane University in 2012. He has been living in Park City, Utah for the past two years working as a ski instructor. In the summer of 2014, Jackson led a 71-day cycling and volunteer trip of 34 volunteers from Portsmouth, NH to Vancouver, BC, with a non-profit group called Bike and Build to benefit affordable housing charities. He is working on his Master's in Civil Engineering in Transportation at the University of Washington and is particularly interested in public transit. Currently Jackson is interning with Washington State Ferries to publish a worldwide ferry service comparison document of financial and operational measures for the 2015 Washington State Legislative Session. Jackson plans to graduate in August of 2015 and hopes to work as a consulting engineer specializing in urban transportation revitalization projects. In his free time he enjoys cycling, travel, and eating ice cream, sometimes all at the same time. PacTrans 2014-2015 Fellows 24 Pacific Northwest Transportation Consortium