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Kimberly Moore Built a Startup Around the Trip Everyone Else Took for Granted
At 53, after Verizon, national events and a year beside Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Kimberly Moore began again. Her big idea was hiding in her sister’s kitchen: access to school often depends on the ordinary trip between home and the classroom.
David Block-Schachter
David Block-Schachter is the Chief Business Officer at Transit, the multimodal trip-planning and fare-payment app used in cities across North America and Europe. A car-free MIT transportation PhD who started his career designing websites for American Express and IBM, he co-founded the microtransit startup Bridj, ran customer technology as CTO of the MBTA, and now helps transit agencies turn rider data into faster buses and simpler fares. His through-line: use technology and data to make public transit work better for everyone.