Planner in Residence 2022 2023 - Becca Nagorsky

Thursday, September 1, 2022

The School of Planning is pleased to announce our Planner-in-Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year is Becca Nagorsky. She will deliver PLAN 403 in the winter term to our 4th year undergraduate students and interact with the School community in various other ways throughout the year.

Each year, the School of Planning hosts a Planner-in-Residence, an expert who teaches and conducts seminars. The program gives students and

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professors the opportunity to interact with professionals who are leaders in their field. The Planner-in-Residence program is funded by the University of Waterloo Planning Alumni of Toronto.

Becca Nagorsky is the Vice President of Stations Planning at Metrolinx.  She has fifteen years of experience in transit planning, leading projects ranging from rail, subway, LRT, and BRT project development to long-range network design to station access planning. Becca serves on the Board of Directors for the Toronto chapter of Women in Transportation (WTS), is a regular presenter at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting as well as a past member of TRB’s Rail Transit Systems Committee. In 2018, she was named a Rising Star of Progressive Railroading, one of twenty-five young professionals across North America to be recognized. She has also taught the Fundamentals of Transportation Planning course at Seneca College and is a literacy tutor at the Toronto Public Library.  Becca moved to Toronto in 2011 after four years in Jerusalem, working on a transit network redesign to support the city’s light rail line.  She holds a Master of Urban Planning from New York University.