Garrett is involved in Online Outreach at EMBARQ and a contributor to TheCityFix.com.

His interest in transit-oriented development was born out of firsthand use of Transantiago, the public transportation system of Santiago, Chile, while living and working as a communications and media coordinator at a local church. After his time in Santiago, he took a 36-hour bus ride across the continent to Brazil and spent six months working in a similar role in the city of Itu. In October 2009, he began a trip across Latin America from Santiago to Cancún utilizing only land transport (for the most part).

Garrett holds a degree in Marketing from Texas A&M University and can’t wait to see the development of a high speed rail network across the United States.