Jessyn Farrell

Jessyn Farrell, J.D., is one of the region's foremost experts in building public consensus on major infrastructure projects.  As an advocate, facilitator, and mediator, she has played a key role in developing community consensus for major transportation initiatives, including the I-90 light rail extension, the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement, Sound Transit's successful 2008 ballot package, and the Washington State Legislature’s 2005 Transportation Partnership Package.

Ms. Farrell was Executive Director of Transportation Choices Coalition where she led the advocacy, messaging and coalition-building strategy to break through the gridlock of the decades’ old “roads vs. transit” debate, unleashing over $25 billion in bus, rail, bike and pedestrian investments in Washington state. Most recently, for Pierce Transit, Ms. Farrell developed a community-based plan for major transit service reductions. She is currently co-chairing a Puget Sound Regional Council initiative, made of local elected officials from King, Pierce, Kitsap and Snohomish Counties, to create regional consensus on the prioritization of $87 billion worth of proposed transportation investments. She is a graduate of Boston College Law School and the University of Washington.