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Jessie Baginski

Jessie Guidry Baginski has served as the Director of Communication for Laketran, the regional transit authority for Lake County, Ohio, since 2000. She is responsible for all aspects of communications for the agency, which earned APTA’s distinction of Best Small Transit System in 2000 and in 2005. She has received numerous APTA AdWheels, and local and state communications awards for her work in marketing and public relations.

Baginski is committed to lifelong learning. She returned to college as an adult to earn an Associate of Arts in Applied Business from Lakeland Community College in 1997, a Bachelor of Arts in Management from Ursuline College in 2000, and a Master of Arts in Education in May of 2008 from Marietta College. Her thesis was on the importance of travel training for students with disabilities in a suburban environment. She recently served as faculty for Easter Seals Project ACTION Mobility Planning Institute in Washington, DC.

Baginski is currently a doctoral student Cleveland State University in Urban Education - Leadership/Lifelong Learning. A native of New Orleans, she hopes to focus her dissertation on the meaning of post-Katrina volunteer experiences for young adults.

In 2008, Baginski received the Maureen Fitzgerald Leadership Award from the Ohio Governor’s Council on People with Disabilities for ten years of work with high school juniors and seniors with disabilities at Ohio’s Youth Leadership Forum. She was inducted into the Lakeland Community College Alumni Hall of Fame in 2008.

Baginski is an active member of Leadership Lake County, the Mentor and Painesville Chambers of Commerce, Lakeland College Foundation and Captain’s Charities.