ACTA: Advisory Committee for Transit Accessibility

Giuseppe (Joe) Floccari is a dispatcher employed by Medical Transportation Management with the accessible dispatch program. He is an avid advocate and activists for people with disabilities. He is on the board of Disabled In Action and a member of ADAPT. As an advocate who regularly attends quarterly ACTA meetings, he believes in the importance of disabled people's visibility with MTA and ability to work behind the scenes to make the MTA more accessible.

Rachel Frumin has been a public servant in NYC government for over 15 years, most recently as a Director of Concessions and Franchises for NYC Department of Transportation (DOT). With an educational background in city and regional planning, her work focuses on long and short term activation of public plazas and open streets, compliance oversight of concession and franchise agreements, and oversees Automated Public Toilets as part of DOT's Coordinated Street Furniture Franchise. Since 2018, she was one of the founding members and first elected Chair of DOT's DiverseAbilities Employee Resource Group (ERG) that focus on employees with disabilities and their allies. In this role, she collaborated with other ERGs at DOT and other public agencies to build connections, develop intersectional programming and events, and bring up DEI initiatives to top leaders at the agency. As a lifelong deaf disability advocate, she is interested in building inclusive communities, creating an equitable public realm and advocating for our public transit system to be fully accessible for all users.

Jonathan Hanon is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the CUNY Graduate Center, where he is researching Public Awareness and Tolerance on Data Privacy in the Digital Era, a cross-disciplinary topic integrating legal policy with data privacy and studying how this relationship affects the public. He is a resident of Inwood and serves as the disability representative to the Uptown People’s Project in coordination with Councilmember Carmen De La Rosa. He received his master's degree from Brooklyn College in 2024 and is a 2017 graduate of Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. He has previously served on the CUNY Board of Trustees Committee on Finance and Administration, and as the Vice-Chair for Technology Affairs on the University Student Senate. He is also a Delegate to the CUNY Coalition for Students with Disabilities (CCSD).

Michael Ring has lived his entire life in Brooklyn except for the time he had to leave to earn his Master's in Social Welfare from Stony Brook University. In 2014, while preparing for his 20th New York City Marathon, he developed Guillain-Barre syndrome and was rendered almost completely paralyzed. He used a wheelchair for about a year and, although he can currently walk, uses ankle foot orthotics. He is now training for his 25th New York City Marathon with the assistance of Achilles International. As a result of his partial paralysis, it will take him twice as long to complete the race. Michael is currently on the Board of Directors of Disabled in Action of Metropolitan New York. He is a co-coordinator of the Transportation and Voter Accessibility committees for the Downstate New York chapter of ADAPT. Michael is looking forward to returning to his roots in social welfare to help make our city more accommodating for its disabled population.

Jean Ryan is the president of Disabled in Action of Metropolitan NY (DIA) and understands the transportation problems that people with disabilities experience. She used subways for 25 years and had to stop when she could no longer manage subway stairs and became a wheelchair user. As a result, she has used Access-A-Ride for many years as well as express and local buses and occasional accessible taxis and for-hire vehicles. Jean has consistently worked for people with disabilities in all forms of transportation and she looks forward to the day when most people in NYC can take subways. Ms. Ryan has been a driving force behind making taxis and for-hire vehicles accessible through the Taxis for All Campaign. Jean believes in working with organizations to share information, plan and participate in rallies and demonstrations and meet with the media to make positive changes for people with disabilities. 

She has been an avid proponent of civil rights, including racial equality, health care equality, and full access to buildings and services such as drug stores, voting, police stations, parks, City Hall and court houses. For years, Ms. Ryan volunteered in elementary schools as well as served on Community Board 10 in Brooklyn. 

In her spare time, Ms. Ryan is a gardener, reader, loves music, museums and botanical gardens, and enjoys being a grandmother. She has a master's degree in Child Clinical Psychology and a master's in TESOL, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. She also graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's in Psychology. She won an award from Hunter College for a paper on plagiarism.