dedicated her career to developing viable
project fi nancial strategies and has assisted
Fact:
Wall Vandegrift is
a first-generation
college student
graduating first
in her class with
a 4.0 grade point
average from
the Georgia
Institute of
Technology with
two engineering
degrees in civil
engineering.
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Amanda Vandegrift
The InfraStrategies Team congratulates Amanda Vandegrift
for being named as one of Mass Transit Magazine’s Top
40 Under 40. Amanda—we’re so proud of you and your
amazing accomplishments.
Jeff, Sharon, Jeff, Mike, Tesse, Wendy, Tory, and Wes
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numerous agencies with positioning
projects for federal grants and loans
and identifying potential state, local, and
private funding options.
In addition to her day job, Wall Vandegrift
has been actively involved in numerous
local and national organizations.
S he is an APTF Scholar (2012), Women’s
Transportation Seminar (WTS) International
Scholarship Recipient (2012),
Eisenhower Fellow (2012), and Eno Fellow
(2014), each of which are tremendous
accomplishments on their own.
AMANDA WALL VANDEGRIFT WORKED
at HDR and recently transitioned to
launch a new consultancy, InfraStrategies
LLC, to better serve and advise its
transit clients in funding, fi nance and
project delivery.
Wall Vandegrift has dedicated her
relatively short, but impactful time in
our industry to assisting transportation
providers with addressing one of
the most pervasive and diffi cult challenges
facing our industry — funding.
Recognizing the impact of this universal
issue on the future of public transportation,
Wall Vandegrift immediately
chose to specialize in transportation
funding and fi nance as an engineering
graduate student.
Wall Vandegrift ’s dedication to her
work can be seen by the fact that only a
few short years into her career, she was
tasked with leading and coordinating
complex fi nancial work for transportation
projects across the country, including
the multi-billion dollar Amtrak
Gateway Program into New York City
and Link Union Station (Link US) Project
in Los Angeles. Wall Vandegrift has
“I absolutely love my job because what I do gets down
to the core of what is required to advance much-needed
public transportation infrastructure and ultimately improve
mobility, accessibility, and quality of life in communities
across our country. We can put a wealth of visionary plans
on the shelf, but we won’t be able to implement them
without a sustainable funding strategy and financial
plan. I love that my role changes significantly from
project to project and each community requires a tailored
approach to developing a project financial strategy.”
Amanda Wall
Vandegrift
Senior Consultant
InfraStrategies LLC
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