What is the Action Committee for Transit?
The Action Committee for Transit has a vision of better communities and better transit. We believe fundamental changes are needed in transportation and land use policies to give the people of Montgomery County and Maryland the quality of life we deserve.
Our broad membership and active volunteers give us the ability to make the voice of transit riders — and those who would like to ride transit if it were more available — heard in Rockville, Annapolis, and Washington. At the same time, we continue to educate the public about the needs of transit. Our organization is democratically governed and we are sustained financially by our members.
ACT was organized in 1986 by Harry Sanders and Ross Capon and incorporated in 2000 as a non-stock corporation with a board of directors elected by the members. ACT has no stockholders, and the corporation's charter requires any assets to be donated to a 501(c)(3) charity if the corporation is dissolved. ACT has been granted 501(c)(4) tax status by the Internal Revenue Service.
2023 Officers
President - Sean Emerson (Gaithersburg)
Vice President - Miriam Schoenbaum (Boyds)
Vice President - Sean Robertson (Kensington) seantr@me.com 202-425-4047
Vice President - Shanika Whitehurst (Gaithersburg)
Treasurer - Chris Farrell (Silver Spring)
Secretary - Helen Heinrich (Wheaton)
Board Member -Jake Goodman (Gaithersburg)
Board Member -Sizhe Xie (Rockville)
Ex officio board members:
Ralph Bennett (Silver Spring), Purple Line Now chair
Ben Ross (Bethesda), Maryland Transit Opportunities Coalition chair 301-913-2849
Paul Goldman (Silver Spring), outgoing president
Sebastian Smoot (Burtonsville), East County
Quon Kwan (Rockville), Editor Transit Times 301-460-7454
Staff:
Kathy Jentz, Administrator admin@actfortransit.org
Lev Boonin, Organizer mocoactorganizer@gmail.com
Contact Us
ACT
PO BOX 7074
SILVER SPRING MD 20907-7074
admin@actfortransit.org
For media inquiries please contact officers directly.