Lyssa Leitner, AICP, has been a transportation planner with Washington County since 2011 and is an adjunct faculty member at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. As a planner, she currently serves as the deputy project manager for the METRO Gold Line, a 10-mile, dedicated guideway, New Starts bus rapid transit project in the Twin Cities.

Lyssa earned a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the Humphrey School and was named one of Mass Transit magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 in 2016.