Naomi Panjaitan

Naomi Panjaitan is an M.S. student in Transportation Technology and Policy. She is passionate about understanding why people make certain travel decisions and how to direct that into a sustainable choice, with main interests in transportation planning, public transit, and women’s travel. Her lifetime experience of riding jitneys, buses, and trains in metropolitan greater Jakarta, Indonesia – as a kid, as a working single lady, and then as a mom of toddlers – enriches her with broad understanding and great empathy for transit passengers, especially women.