Gina Baas
Director of Communications and Outreach
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200 Transportation and Safety Building |
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612-626-7331 |
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Gina Baas is Director, Communications and Outreach, for the Center for Transportation Studies (CTS). In this position, she is responsible for leading the delivery of projects to administer conferences and events; develop and maintain Web sites, electronic newsletters, and other communications/information products; and coordinate and support stakeholder committees working on specific transportation topics and issues. Baas also leads the Center’s communications and information strategic planning efforts on an annual basis to reflect ongoing and new activities and opportunities.
Prior to joining the Center’s staff in 1997, Baas was a project manager for a market research firm, C.J. Olson Market Research, and for a transportation consulting firm, LJR, Inc. Transportation Consultants and Planners; she also served in a variety of positions in the Minnesota office of U.S. Senator David Durenberger for six years. Baas holds a BS degree in political science with a minor in American history from the University of Iowa.
Baas is a participant in the 2005-2006 cohort of the University of Minnesota President’s Emerging Leaders program and is a member of the University’s Communicators Forum. She is also active in the Minnesota Chapter of the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), serving on the board of directors for five years in various leadership positions, including as President and as Arrangements Chair for the 2002 WTS National Conference.