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

Director of Engineering, PTOE

Tom is a creative "plangineer" who has worked in the private, public, and non-profit sectors, focusing on bicycle/pedestrian planning and design for the last 25 years. He has designed bikeways, performed traffic analysis, led dozens of walkability audits, analyzed roundabouts, and implemented numerous placemaking and traffic calming schemes from Troon, Scotland, to Guadalajara, Mexico.

Tom Bertulis

While in Graduate School in 2012, Tom wrote a paper on contraflow bike lanes that led to the first contraflow bike facility in Brookline, Mass, and he contributed to the body of case studies, quick-build experiments, and data collection that led to the founding of Neighborways Design. Tom has both a bachelor's and a master's degree in Civil Engineering and spent 2.5 years co-teaching (with Neighborway founder Mark Chase) a class at Tufts University in Medford, MA, called "Planning for Bicycles and Pedestrians." He has worldwide experience and a global perspective that was cultivated through the four-hemisphere approach to sustainable transportation.

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

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

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.