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Marcellous
Grigsby, MBA, PMP, CSP,
Prevention/Mitigation
Specialist
Washington
Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority
Marcellous Grigsby is a prevention and
mitigation specialist at WMATA. Grigsby
facilitates data-driven risk management by
leading effective After-Action Reviews for
incidents and accidents with internal and
external stakeholders. He conducts fire life
safety facility/equipment inspections to evaluate
for hazards impacting customers and
staff, including life safety risks and fire hazards
related to building and fire codes or internal
policy/procedure. Grigsby also developed
an interactive dashboard for fire life safety
inspection to create reports, analyze data
and assign tasks to mitigate inspection findings
to resolution. In addition, he periodically
serves as a Mission Assurance Coordinator
in WMATA's Rail Operations Control Center,
effectively collaborating with essential personnel
to improve outcomes during incidents
and events and to help continuously improve
safety, emergency response and preparedness
activities across WMATA's systems.
Grigsby started with WMATA as a bus operator
in 2015 and received a safety award after
one year of service for outstanding safety
performance. A promotion to the department
safety coordinator for the Office of
Bus Transportation in 2016 helped direct
Grigsby's career path at WMATA. In this role,
ee monitored safety goals, tracked leading
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and lagging key performance indicators
and measured the effectiveness of risk mitigations.
Grigsby was promoted in 2018 to
serve as a safety investigator and shortly
after was promoted to his current role.
Grigsby has been recognized for his
safety and customer service efforts by
WMATA and is part of the APTA Emerging
Leaders Program, Class of 2023.
Off the job, Grigsby gains extensive fire
prevention and safety knowledge assisting
his community as a Prince George's
County, Md., certified volunteer firefighter
and emergency medical technician.
Fast Fact: Grigsby is a volunteer firefighter and
EMT who has responded to numerous medical
emergencies, fire events, performed rescue
operations and gained valuable experience as a
first responder.
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Martin Kareithi
Director - Systemwide
Accessibility
Capital Metropolitan
Transportation
Authority (CapMetro)
Martin Kareithi serves as CapMetro's
director of systemwide accessibility, but
his contributions to the community have
spanned more than 12 years with the agency.
He has held several positions designed to
improve the authority's operations and make
CapMetro's services truly accessible to the
entire community. Working in the accessibility
space requires Kareithi to understand
many, if not all, the agency's programs, services,
facilities and technologies to not only
assess CapMetro's compliance with law, but to
ensure the agency is leading with its values.
In transitioning to leading the systemwide
accessibility team, Kareithi's focus is on the
complete pedestrian experience. He has been
a leader in ensuring accessibility is a core
value and is top of mind when building out
Project Connect because he understands
the architectural decisions will last decades.
Kareithi believes technology can break down
barriers for people with disabilities. He played
an important part in the rollout of one of the
first fully accessible mobile ticketing apps in
the nation, serving as a subject matter expert
on accessibility in the design phase. Kareithi
champions the ways technology can empower
people with disabilities by providing more
information about the built environment
and oversaw a beacon technology pilot that
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Each day I play a part in making
my community a better place to
live, work and play all the while,
literally, getting a chance to play
with buses and trains for a living.
provided directional wayfinding and real-time
rider information to people with disabilities.
The opportunity to be involved in this
work is meaningful and he works to create
more opportunities for others. Kareithi
served as president of the Austin chapter of
the Conference of Minority Transportation
Officials (COMTO) for four years and is the
chair of COMTO's national Accessibility
Advisory Council. As both an African American
and a blind individual, he has shared that it's
important to him that COMTO provides a
platform to minority professionals and people
with disabilities. This is more than work
for Kareithi. This is a passion, a mission. It's
also a legacy for his two young children.
Fast Fact: COMTO's Accessible Innovative
Mobility Track at its annual conference was
established during Kareithi's time as chair of
the national council.
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