Board of Directors

Isabel Einzig is an organizational leadership, life coach and tutor at Unique Pathways. Her desire has always been to guide others in finding their unique path toward discovering and developing their strengths and interests and creating an action plan to achieve their life and career goals. Individuals have the answers and often require guidance to discover how to utilize their strengths, to forge satisfying relationships to achieve their goals, and live meaningful, integrated lives.

With a BS in Education from Long Island University, an MS in Applied Behavioral Science, Organizational Behavior, and a Certificate in Leadership Coaching from Georgetown University, Isabel has built a solid educational foundation upon which to hone her skills.

As an experienced educator in public and private schools, Isabel has inspired students to think critically rather than rely on the teacher for all the answers. As a president of the Teachers’ Association, she became an advocate for change by negotiating contracts, resolving conflicts and improving the teachers’ work environment. She has also been the recipient of several awards including The Teacher of the Year Award for her creative programs and curriculum enhancements.

In accordance with her late husband’s legacy, Isabel founded a company in 2002, The Fiber Optic Marketplace, which remains a leader in training, product distribution and fiber optic solutions. As a start-up business in need of structure, Isabel established a Department of Human Resources to recruit and hire employees and interns, research and deliver employee benefit packages and assure compliance with labor laws. While also serving as president for several years, she coached staff pertaining to work/life integration and motivated teams to work more effectively.

Isabel became actively involved with ASIRT when she co-chaired the Annual Gala in 2019. She chaired the event in 2020 and will chair it again in 2021.

Manager: HSD Analytics; Ergonomics; Road Safety
The World Bank Group, Retired

Jasminka. Goldoni Laestadius is a medical doctor with specialized professional training and a PhD degree in Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM). She has spent most of her 40+-year career in culturally diverse, international settings at the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund (Washington, DC), the World Food Program (Rome, Italy), and the European Commission (Brussels, Belgium).

Dr. Laestadius’ expertise covers all aspects of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She is active and has been recognized in the fields of global population health management, data analytics, global road traffic safety, health and safety management systems, and office ergonomics, as evidenced by her numerous peer-reviewed publications, reports, professional presentations, and awards.

Dr. Laestadius is a recipient of the ASIRT 2019 Global Road Safety Championship Award. In 2018 and in 2012 she was presented with the World Bank Group Vice President’s Individual Award for achievements in Road Safety Program for staff.

A member of the Academy of Medicine of Washington, DC, Dr. Laestadius is also Past President of Metropolitan Washington College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (MWCOEM) and a Board Director of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).

In the UN system, she is a founder and a chair of the UN Health Intelligence (UNHI) Working Group under UN Medical Directors’ leadership.

Mariana Maguire is a multifunctional professional with nearly 15 years of policy, advocacy, and public relations experience in government and non-profit, developing and leading high-impact initiatives and diverse partnerships.

Mariana worked in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2006-2014 where she co-led the Congressional Global Road Safety Caucus, passing the first-ever bipartisan Resolution on Global Road Safety and representing Congress at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow. She also launched the Bipartisan Working Group on Women’s Issues and spearheaded the designation of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument.

In 2015, Mariana became the Conservation Lands Foundation’s (CLF) first Southern California Associate Director for Conservation and its first Associate California Program Director in 2018. She led campaigns and partnerships throughout Southern California, where her work helped establish one of the most intact, protected desert landscapes in the world. She also helped build CLF’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative and helped start CLF’s voter engagement initiative.

Mariana now serves as a Public Relations Officer for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority (SFMTA) where she leads communications, outreach and public engagement for a number of major projects. She also serves on several nonprofit Boards of Directors, including ASIRT, where she provides communications and advocacy strategy expertise.

Mariana holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Arts in Social and Public Policy from Georgetown University.

With more than 35 years of experience in private and international public sectors spanning all continents, Hernan Rosenberg specializes in strategic planning, international development and facilitation of dialogue between the social and economic sectors. He has pioneered important changes in technical cooperation delivery and in the evaluation of programs.

Currently, Hernan trains, facilitates and advises international organizations, NGOs and countries in all aspects of public policy and program design, management and evaluation; strategic planning and results-based management (RBM). He also lectures on these topics at the graduate level at several universities in the U.S. as well as at the University of Chile’s School of Public Health, where he has been appointed professor agregado, and at Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco Chile.

Hernan was appointed as a member of the Evaluation Panel of Experts of the United Nations Development Program; is a founding member, Vice President of Finances and Advisor for Development Outcomes Organization (DOO); is a founding member and Treasurer for Global Health International Advisors (GHIA); and is a Board Member for the Shikuri Project that focuses on Sickle Cell Anemia in Africa. His career in the United Nations culminated in his role as Team Leader of the Strategic Planning, Resource Coordination and Program Support group of the Pan American Health Organization, from which he retired in 2010. He was instrumental in a total transformation of the agency’s managerial system with the adoption of a results-based management approach. While developed for an international organization, several countries in the Americas requested support for this system for their own governments. Hernan also established the Global Fund against AIDS, TB and Malaria (GFATM), which is the first institution to fully incorporate the RBM approach into its operations. He has also prepared a USAID funded manual for health investment plans that is now used in several countries.

Hernan earned a Master of Arts and advanced doctoral studies in Engineering-Economic Systems and Economics from Stanford University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar and a Bachelor of Science and Engineering degrees in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad de Chile. He advises ASIRT in outreach to multinational health and economic organizations and agencies.

Dr. Maria Vegega is a Road Safety and Injury Prevention Consultant. She retired in 2018 after 38 years with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Over the course of her career, she held several management positions in both the program and research offices and served as Policy Advisor to senior NHTSA executives. She ended her career as Chief of the Occupant Protection Division, where she managed a staff responsible for developing program approaches to increase the use of safety belts and child restraint systems and reduce distracted and drowsy driving. Prior to her appointment to the Occupant Protection Division, she served in several management positions where she was responsible for behavioral research and programs addressing topics such as alcohol and drug impaired driving; speeding; pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle safety and school bus safety.

Maria has a long history in injury prevention and control. She managed the international behavioral traffic safety program and worked with a team on global road safety issues. She also served as the U.S. government representative to the Working Party for Road Traffic Safety (UNECE), worked on the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention and on World Health Day activities, participated in the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration and development of road safety manuals, and served on an OECD committee on Keeping Children Safe in Traffic. Maria has published on a variety of traffic safety issues and has participated in many interdisciplinary efforts to reduce motor vehicle crashes. She has mentored many staff, including many public health fellows under the auspices of the Association of Schools and Programs for Public Health.

In addition to her current service on the Board of Directors for ASIRT, Maria serves on several Transportation Research Board Committees and is a member of two Behavioral Traffic Safety Cooperative Research Program panels. She also serves on a Technical Advisory Panel for a World Bank Project.