Jessica Hill

Jessica Hill – With over ten years of experience working with the metro area education system, Jessica has seen first hand how important community involvement is. A master’s degree student in communications at the University of St. Thomas, she knows French, American Sign Language, and English.

Contact:
651-602-1840
jessica.hill@metc.state.mn.us

Shoua Lee

Shoua Lee (pronounced SHOO’-ah LEE’) – Formerly project manager/loan specialist for the city of St. Paul’s Department of Planning and Economic Development, she speaks Hmong and English. With the city, she served as liaison about the LRT project to businesses, nonprofit organizations and ethnic chambers of commerce. She was one of two city staff who organized the recently formed Hmong Business Association to prepare for the LRT line.

Contact:
651-602-1014
shoua.lee@metc.state.mn.us

Rita Rodriguez

Rita Rodriguez – Executive Director for the Association of Women Contractors and a previous business owner on University Avenue, she speaks Spanish and English. She previously worked for Women Venture, developing and managing the Jobs in the Trades Program to prepare women for employment in pre-apprenticeship programs in the construction industry.

Joey Browner

Joey Browner - Following his NFL career with the Minnesota Vikings (1983-1991) and Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1991-1992), Browner has worked as an events coordinator, motivational speaker, charity fundraiser, internet talk radio show host and facilitator of youth leadership conferences and sports camps. For the past 20 years, he has taught  traditional martial arts at the Marshall Avenue School of Self Defense in St. Paul.

Contact:
651-602-1953
joey.browner@metc.state.mn.us

Dana Dellis

Dana Dellis - With more than nine years of experience working in and with neighborhood and community-based organizations, Dellis is very familiar with the Central Corridor. Dellis, who is fluent in Spanish, has been an employment counselor for Goodwill/Easter Seals in south Minneapolis, a job counselor for St. Paul-based Communidades Latinas Unidos En Servicio (CLUES) and a bilingual staff associate at Listening House in St. Paul, where she assisted clients with mental and chemical health issues.

Contact:
651-602-1954
dana.dellis@metc.state.mn.us

Kent Hranicka

Intern Kent Hranicka (pronounced her-RAN’-ih-kuh) - A former Wisconsin legislative aide,  Hranicka joins the outreach staff as an intern, replacing Eve Vang, who left to teach English in Thailand on a Fulbright scholarship. Hranicka is studying for his master’s degree in urban and regional planning at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. He has been involved in political organizing at the state and local level in Wisconsin.

Contact:
651-602-1952
kent.hranicka@metc.state.mn.us

Manager of Public Involvement

Robin Caufman

Robin Caufman – With the Met Council for six years, Robin was a planning analyst/sector representative before she became manager of public involvement for the Central Corridor LRT Project.  Her previous Met Council job involved coordinating outreach and regional planning activities with cities in Hennepin County.  She has a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Contact:
651-602-1457
robin.caufman@metc.state.mn.us

(NOTE: Media have permission to download and reprint the maps and staff photos on the Central Corridor downloads web page.)