Team ASHA
Our culturally diverse and multifaceted team is our greatest strength. Our team members grew up in various parts of the world and bring with us unique cultural perspectives on urban spaces, transportation systems, and social equity. Urban mobility and transportation safety is a personal passion for each of us and we bring our diverse experiences into our day-to-day work. We work with state, regional, and local agencies to improve mobility and safety for all users of the transportation system, especially the most vulnerable users.
We have two senior transportation planners with combined urban and transportation project management and planning experience of 50 years — Poorna Bhattacharya, AICP, LEED AP and Rohan Sadhai, AICP. Our Creative Design Director, Stephen Vazquez, has 25 years of experience on transportation planning projects and has helped agencies visualize complex data in a public friendly format. Our team is supported by three transportation planners, Shuang Xi, AICP, Alexis Miller, E.I., and Jordan Crandall, each with several years of experience working with FDOT and local governments. Daniela Bohórquez is a Graphic Designer with 18 years of interdisciplinary experience in creative design.
Meet Our Team
Our dedicated team of multidisciplinary consultants brings expertise
and innovation to every project.
Poorna Bhattacharya,
AICP, LEED AP
Founder of ASHA Planning Consultancy Inc.
24 years of professional experience
Poorna has focused her career on context sensitive transportation planning projects that integrate the needs of pedestrians, bicyclists, transit users, and motorists into one transportation system. She has experience in multimodal planning, growth management, transportation policy, transit planning, safety studies, corridor studies, and parking planning. She specializes in facilitating public and stakeholder outreach as a component of larger planning efforts. Poorna combines her background in Architecture and Urban Planning to advocate for a transportation system that is a cohesive extension of the built environment. In the last decade, she has passionately worked on bicycle and pedestrian safety initiatives and multimodal mobility efforts. Poorna is a mother of two spirited children who love riding their bikes all over the neighborhood trails and advocating for safe walking and biking to anyone that would listen.
Rohan Sadhai, AICP
Project Manager
25 years of professional experience
Rohan has extensive experience in providing transportation planning services to transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, local, regional and state governments. He has extensive experience in preparing local and regional transportation plans, transit feasibility studies, corridor planning studies with context sensitive concepts, growth management plans, pedestrian and bicycle plans and landside aviation plans. Rohan has managed multiple corridor planning studies from planning to concept development for FDOT and Orange County. He has an undergraduate degree in Geography and a master’s degree in Transportation Planning. He has focused his career on integrating complex transportation and land use data into planning projects to help stakeholders make data driven decisions.
Stephen Vazquez
Creative Design Director
25 years of multi-industry experience
Stephen is a highly creative problem-solver and storyteller with advanced knowledge in the Adobe Creative Cloud applications and over 2,200 successfully completed projects. He has extensive experience in print and publication design, 3D modeling and animation, interactive simulation, innovative map composition, website design, and presentation design and creation. Stephen has assisted state and local agencies with numerous creative initiatives such as newsletters, infographics and storytelling materials, presentations, branding, and other collateral materials. Stephen's unique approach to design creates functionally enhanced solutions that are both client and project-specific.
Jordan Crandall
Transportation Planner
9 years of professional experience
Jordan is a strategic thinker with a diverse background in transportation planning, project management, and stakeholder engagement. He is well-practiced in guiding organizations to listen well — turning feedback from a broad base of stakeholders and relevant data into actionable and worthwhile plans. Jordan has helped jurisdictions prepare infrastructure for technological change, worked with universities to think holistically about their transportation systems, and developed parks master plans. Jordan is interested in empowering people to change their own neighborhoods for the better and has a Masters in Planning from Florida State University.
Shuang Xi, AICP
Transportation Planner
6 years of professional experience
Shuang Xi is a transportation planner with experience in urban and regional planning, growth management, transit planning, and corridor planning. She has experience working on PD&E studies, specifically crash data evaluation and public involvement. She is experienced in GIS applications, planning evaluations, evaluating and analyzing crash data and preparing infographics. Shuang has two bachelor’s degrees in Landscape Design and Finance and two master’s degrees in Environmental Planning and Design and Geographic Information System. Her diverse educational background allows her to take a multifaceted approach to planning.
Daniela Bohorquez
Creative Designer
18 yearsof multi-industry experience
Daniela is an accomplished yet passionate creative designer with a diverse background in architecture and graphic design. Drawing experience from both professional fields, she conceptualizes and develops creative ideas into successful design deliverables. Using applications such as AutoCAD and Adobe Creative Cloud, Daniela has produced several brand identity campaigns, cohesive marketing materials, and web-based solutions for a variety of clientele. From transforming uninspiring dwellings into warm and welcoming living spaces to creating design elements such as logos and brochures, Daniela offers a profoundly creative experience with every project she touches.
Alexis “Lexi” Miller, EI
Transportation Planner
5 years of multi-industry experience
Lexi is a transportation planner with experience in resilience and sustainability planning, project management, technical and permit reviews, grants, public engagement, and growth management in local government. She has extensive experience in municipal grant writing and management, including successful awards from the National Science Foundation, St Johns River Water Management District, the State of Florida, and many local cost-share programs, totaling approximately $7.5 million over her career.