Anita Cobb

Job title: 
Co-Investigator
Department: 
Market Leader of Aviation Equity Strategies
Mead & Hunt
Bio/CV: 

Anita Cobb, MBA, is Mead & Hunt’s Market Leader for Aviation Equity Strategies. She has a passion for and specializes in matters related to workforce development, environmental justice, community collaboration, youth education, family empowerment, and mentorship. She supports and shares creative strategies focused on advocacy, transparency, and resource literacy for individuals who are marginalized and in need of exposure to opportunities to experience and contribute to optimized transportation. 

Anita’s recent activities revolve around the importance of accessibility and equity in employment, project teams, and the built environment. This includes collaborating with academics to explore neurodiversity in the workplace, planning, and engineering, developing targeted universalism approaches for disadvantaged and underserved communities, and producing strategies to optimize DBE training, development, and significant project participation. She is also involved in the production of equity best practice documentation that addresses systemic inequalities in the aviation industry.

Research interests: 
  • Accessible and inclusive training/education

  • Program exposure in disadvantaged communities