Jacki Wilkins

Jacki Wilkins is the new president of the 400-member Boston Chapter of the Women's Transportation Seminar. Wilkins, a senior project manager for environmental permitting at the Massachusetts Port Authority, begins her two-year term at WTS as the local transportation industry winds down from large-scale construction projects like Logan Airport modernization and the Central Artery Big Dig Project. Wilkins first joined WTS in 1994 and has served as vice president, treasurer and co-chairwoman of committees responsible for student scholarships and planning the WTS National Conference held in Boston in 2003. W ilkins graduated with a degree in geology from Pennsylvania's Lafayette College and later did graduate work in environmental studies before serving 11 years with the states Executive Office of Environmental Affairs She also worked as a consultant for 6 years before working at Massport.