Haleema Bharoocha specializes in promoting equity and public safety within transportation using non-carceral approaches. Nationally recognized for her efforts to ensure safe passage for marginalized communities, she brings valuable experience from organizations like the American Public Transportation Association, Metropolitan Transportation Association, and Transform. Haleema authored “Ride Fearlessly: A Framework for Reimagining Transit Safety” and co-led Not One More Girl, a groundbreaking youth-driven initiative combating gender-based violence on BART, which influenced California's SB 1161 transit safety bill, now considered a national model.
Haleema's diverse project portfolio includes regional improvements to paratransit, quick-build traffic calming pilot design, analyzing the equity implications of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies, ensuring equitable access to federal funds for small businesses in clean energy, and increasing micro-mobility adoption in urban settings through a Mobility as a Service (MaaS) platform. She has also worked with the Anti Police Terror Project on statewide approaches to repairing High Injury Networks (HIN) and conducted policy research on the nexus of criminalization and mobility. Her efforts culminated in the report Decarcerating Transportation: A Mobility Justice Framework, presented at the Transit Research Board Conferences on Transportation Equity. 
Her work has been featured in prominent publications such as Teen Vogue, Bloomberg, SF Chronicle, KQED, and Streetsblog. Haleema is an alumna of the nation's top-ranked policy school, the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, where she earned her Master of Public Policy. She