Our Team
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.
Mark Chase
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.
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
Sury Chavez
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 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
Leigh Meunier
Senior Community Builder
Leigh embodies community spirit. With over twenty years of public school teaching, trainings in circle and covenantal practices, mutual aid and solidarity work with immigration groups, and coordinating climate justice initiatives in the Greater Boston region, her work focuses on inclusion and accessibility. Her emotional intelligence, relationship and communication skills help to create safer and braver spaces where people build trust.
Leigh brings an expansive network to the Neighborways team through her ongoing work with Boston Immigration Justice & Accompaniment Network (BIJAN), Climate Coalition of Somerville, and Communities Responding to Extreme Weather (CREW).
Her mission is to resource, connect, and amplify abundance within communities to address emerging and evolving crises and injustices.