Tabitha Decker is a Fellow at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at NYU. She's both a sociologist and a practitioner who has long used transportation as a lens to examine power in cities and as a lever to reshape it.

As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, Tabitha spent a year riding through cities alongside women taxi drivers, learning how transportation systems can connect people to opportunity or cut them off from it, and the value of centering the people left behind by those systems. Her doctoral research examined the design and creation of Dubai's Metro, exploring its significance for a rapidly transforming city.

Most recently, Tabitha was deputy director at Next100, a think tank that centers the expertise of those closest to the challenges policy seeks to solve. She was previously deputy executive director at TransitCenter. There, she co-led a campaign to improve local bus service in New York City, work that helped win the MTA's bus network redesigns and a commitment from the city of New York to significantly expand its bus lane network.

She has a BA in international relations from Wellesley College and a PhD in sociology from Yale University.