Jennifer Pangborn

Jennifer Pangborn is an Assistant Vice President and Senior Technical Principal with WSP USA, based in St. Louis, MO. Pangborn has dedicated her career as a transportation planner and engineer who focuses on people and their experiences in our built environment. She manages complex, people-focused projects across the country, working to build diverse teams in experience and skill set. Her mobility work is based on the idea that transportation is mobility and everyone has a right for access to mobility. Pangborn also leads a technical team across the central US and is dedicated to empowering and building their skills and networks in the industry. She is a thought-leader, people-leader, and participates in key initiatives with WSP focused around equity, inclusion and diversity, Future Ready, Vision Zero, active transportation, and mentoring. Pangborn’s passion for transportation stems from her love of places. She is dedicated to connecting people to places – live, work, play – in the safest, best experience possible. She brings logical problem solving to her clients and teams that are human-centric and sustainable. She is sought out on projects to provide engagement in unique ways and make processes and project management fun. She values the relationships she has built both within WSP, with her clients, and in her community. Some of her work has garnered state and national recognition. Pangborn is equally passionate about public education and is serving her second term as a director for the Kirkwood School District R-7. Through her two terms, she has been an advocate for advancing education resources, enhanced safety, curriculum updates, policy updates, and bringing her engineering problem solving to the district. She volunteers for STEAM programs and hopes to encourage more women into engineering in the future. She is the proud mother of three boys who keep her active, laughing, and wanting to do more in her community and cities to create a better future for them. Pangborn’s career and community involvement were recognized by ENR where she was awarded the Top 20 under 40 across the US in 2022.