Margaret Herrera is the Transportation Safety
Program Manager at the Maricopa Association of Governments. She has 26 years of
experience serving in key roles on private and public sector transportation
safety programs, projects and initiatives. She provides leadership and guidance
in transportation safety efforts for the Maricopa region of 27 cities and towns
and three Native nations in Maricopa County and parts of Pinal County. Margaret
administrated processes for the update of the MAG Strategic Transportation
System Plan (STSP) to reimagine regional safety planning with a human-centered
approach that promotes a culture of safety. Work
on the STSP included development of a comprehensive regional pedestrian and
bicycle safety education program to be administered in coordination with local
enforcement activities, called See Me AZ. Margaret regularly coordinates
with local transportation planners and engineers, policy makers, public health
practitioners, police and others as the facilitator of one of the country’s only
dedicated regional Transportation Safety Committee at a Metropolitan Planning
Organization (MPO). Margaret joined MAG in 2012 as a Transportation Engineer
III and was promoted to Transportation Safety Program Manager in 2018. Prior to
MAG, Margaret served in traffic engineering departments at the City of Avondale
and the City of Peoria. Having grown up in Albuquerque, NM, Margaret holds a
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering Technology from New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, NM (1993) and made her way to her home in Tolleson,
Arizona via Seattle and Denver. Margaret is a registered professional engineer
in the state of Arizona.
