NEW YORK — Engineering News-Record (ENR) has named WSP's Jennifer Pangborn to the publication’s national 2022 Top 20 Under 40 list. Jeffrey Yates was also recognized on the magazine’s regional list for Texas and Louisiana.
ENR’s national Top 20 Under 40 is the culmination of its annual Top Young Professionals program, which honors the best of the next generation of construction industry professionals across 10 regions in the U.S.
Pangborn, based in St. Louis, is a transportation planner and engineer who manages mobility, complete streets, multimodal planning, traffic modeling and last-mile connectivity projects. Her portfolio includes the award-winning Armour Road Complete Streets in North Kansas City and the rebuilding of Interstate 270 North in St. Louis to improve community connectivity.
At WSP, she supports key committees and initiatives including the Equity Center of Excellence, Inclusion and Diversity, Future Ready®, Vision Zero, Social Value, active transportation and mentoring in the Developing Leaders Network. She is active in several industry organizations, including the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE), where in 2011 she served one of the first female co-hosts for the annual international meeting held in St. Louis. She also served on ITE’s Transportation Planning Council as vice chair (2013-2016) and chair (2017-2019).
She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering-transportation and a master’s degree in construction management.
Yates, based in Houston, is responsible for the development, consensus-building, and implementation of sector-based communications plans, including energy, advisory services, property and buildings, transportation, water, and program and construction management.
He serves as an ambassador for WSP’s Inclusion & Diversity Council and Texas Task Force, helping to raise awareness about the importance of inclusion and diversity in the industry. Yates will be part of a team travelling to East Africa in 2022 to construct a suspension bridge in a rural community with no infrastructure.
He is a graduate of the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in architectural history.
ENR’s National Top 20 Under 40 were selected out of nearly 400 entries, representing all parts of the construction industry. Panels of independent industry judges in each of the 10 regions selected up to 20 winners to represent that region. The highest scoring candidates from each of the regional contests were then evaluated by another panel of judges to select 20 professionals that represented the best of young leaders from across the U.S. Profiles of the winners will be published in each regional magazine.
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