Women Led Mobility: Showcasing the projects, initiatives, and innovations led by women in the mobility industry
The mobility industry was born of the union between the automotive and the technology sectors, revolutionizing the way the world moves people and goods into the 21st century. Both the technology and automotive industries are prominent spaces for their legacies of “boys clubs” as both male leadership and staffing continue to dominate their respective sectors and adjacent industries. Despite the patriarchal pedigree and changing expectations in professional and personal capacities—the mobility industry is seeing a growing movement in female leadership. Women are integrated throughout the mobility industry at large, designing and engineering some of the most innovative technologies and platforms that are driving the future of how goods and people move—and the spaces, communities and roads they move along. While these women spend their careers doing this work, most of these stories are still untold. Until now.
This historic movement of female leadership on the heels of an incumbent male dominance, needs to be told. It is our responsibility as women working in the space to share these stories; and to celebrate the movement all while uplifting others through the diverse and unique perspectives that women have brought to the table for generations.
This is where we need you. Join us as a collective to catalog and give voice to the women of the mobility industry and the projects, initiatives, and ground breaking innovations they have pioneered.
About Us
Katelyn Shelby Davis
As a public relations and communications professional with a lifelong obsession with cars and technology, it only made sense to find a career making sense and giving purpose to next-gen mobility and helping others to understand the implications. Katelyn Shelby Davis has spent her days working alongside automakers, suppliers, startups, venture capitalists, community organizations, and government bodies to develop better and more efficient ways to move people, goods, and services—located in the heart of the industry, the Motor City. Before her current role as the Communications Lead at Cavnue, a leading developer of connected roadway technology that will unlock the full potential of connected and autonomous vehicles, Katelyn served as Director of Mobility at Antenna—an integrated communications and marketing firm focused on automated, electric and connected vehicles, mass transportation systems, micromobility solutions and more. Katelyn also served as the director of MICHauto, Michigan’s automotive and mobility industry association. During her time at MICHauto, she led the Detroit Mobility Coalition, a public/private collective organized to combining resources and positioning Detroit as a hotbed for mobility testing, as well as co-led Mobility Week Detroit and Detroit Moves, an outdoor mobility festival. Katelyn launched and served as the Editor in Chief of Driven, a news platform dedicated to telling the story of Michigan’s leadership in both automotive and mobility. Currently, she is on the board of the Automotive Public Relations Council and a lead for Women in Mobility - Detroit. Katelyn earned her Graduate Certificate in New Media Communications from Wayne State University and Bachelor of Arts in Advertising and Public Relations from Grand Valley State University and has earned various national awards for her work in communications and marketing. She is also a graduate of Leadership Detroit.
Kristin Shaw
Kristin Shaw is an award-winning marketing and communications professional. In her current role as a Communications and Public Involvement Coordinator at WSP, one of the world's leading engineering professional services consulting firms, she is responsible for outreach and public involvement efforts on a number of transportation and infrastructure projects across the United States, focusing on both Michigan and Ohio. Prior to WSP, Shaw was Manager of Digital and Social Media at TCF Center (formerly Cobo Center), where she single-handedly generated $1.75 million in digital marketing revenue. As a passionate sustainability champion, she also led the convention center’s green initiatives, including formalizing a donation program which acts as a pipeline for leftover event materials to be diverted from landfills or incinerators. Efforts from the 2019 North American International Auto Show alone resulted in the recycling or reusing of more than 100,000 pounds of materials, including the replanting of 30 full-grown trees at the Detroit Zoo and the donation of 90,000 square feet of carpet to local churches and non-profit organizations. Her role there also was to act as the Project Administrator for the convention center’s LEED certification. TCF Center is the largest gold-certified building in the state of Michigan, and the largest gold v4.1 EBOM building in the world. Simultaneously, Shaw owns a photography business, Kristin Shaw Photography, where her passion for visual storytelling shines. Shaw also is the co-chair of the recycling and waste reduction subcommittee for Detroit Green Task Force, a group dedicated to creating green jobs, improving environmental policy and building a more sustainable city. Shaw also is passionate about volunteering and takes an active role with Detroit USGBC, Detroit Youth Improvement Council and a variety of other non- profit organizations in Southeast Michigan. Shaw has received numerous awards and accreditation in her budding career, most notably she’s a Crain’s 20 in Their 20s 2019 honoree, a Detroit Young Professional’s Vanguard Award recipient and a LEED AP O+M. Shaw earned her Master of Urban Planning and Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations degrees from Wayne State University.