Tyler Reeb, Ph.D., serves as Executive Director at the Center for International Trade and Transportation at California State University, Long Beach. He oversees a multimillion‐dollar portfolio of sponsored research that addresses rural, tribal, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), supply-chain and logistics, zero‐emission technologies, automation, data privacy, community engagement, and a range of workforce development issues. He is the principal author and editor of the book Empowering the New Mobility Workforce (Elsevier 2019), which was endorsed by the late Norman Mineta. He is a member of a Transportation Research Board (TRB) Rural Transportation Issues Coordinating Council (A0040C) and two TRB standing committees focused on Native American mobility issues (AME30) and workforce development and organizational excellence (AJE15). His research‐driven reports, publications, and workforce development programs promote innovation and civic partnerships between leaders in business, government, and education. “Transportation in GIS,” a pilot class Tyler developed in partnership with Los Angeles Trade Technical College, won the American Planning Association Award of Excellence for Opportunity and Empowerment.