Amy Cavaretta
Student of the Year
Amy Cavaretta, M.S. (UF 2013) is the STRIDE Student of the Year for 2012. She received this honor during the CUTC Awards Banquet in January 2013 during the 92nd Meeting of the Transportation Research Board in Washington, D.C. Amy has her sights set on urban planning and has demonstrated her interest by participating in several internships such as the Harvard University Graduate School of Design Urban Planning Summer Program, the City of Casselberry, Fla., and
Kittelson & Associates, a transportation engineering and planning firm. Cavaretta also was selected as the first Thomas J. O’Bryant Transportation Policy and Finance Fellow of the Eno Center for Transportation, a nonpartisan think-tank in Washington, D.C. While at Eno, Cavaretta co-authored a paper examining USDOT/RITA Administrator Greg Winfree presents Amy Cavaretta with the Federal the Student of the Year Award during the CUTC Banquet in Washington, Discretionary D.C. Grants Program 2009), and the Sharon D. Banks Memorial titled “Lessons Learned from Undergraduate Scholarship (WTS National, the TIGER Discretionary Grant 2010). More recently, Cavaretta has received Program”. Amy Cavaretta is an active recognition via the WTS International Helen leader in the UF Student Planning Overly Graduate Scholarship (2012-2013), Association and has been involved and the WTS South Florida Helen Overly with the Woman’s Transportation Memorial Graduate Scholarship (2012-2013). Seminar (WTS) UF student chapter The Florida American Planning Association since 2009, serving as vice president, named Cavaretta their Outstanding Student secretary, and newsletter/website Planner (2012-2013) and Student Planner chair. Other accolades include: David of the Year (2012). Amy Cavaretta plans to F. & Cynthia A. Davis Engineering pursue a career in Washington, D.C. in federal Scholarship (UF, 2011), Frankee and state transportation/infrastructure policy Hellinger Undergraduate Scholarship and hopes to become a certified and licensed (WTS Central Florida Chapter, planner. Amy Cavaretta on the lawn of the capitol building in Washington, D.C.
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