ABOUT CONSTELLATION STRATEGY
Gina Solman founded Constellation Strategy to bring her expertise and her commitment to integrity directly to the full range of agencies and partners doing the work. At the Volpe Center, she worked side by side with federal clients on the problems that mattered most to them. Constellation Strategy brings that same partnership to state, regional, and local agencies and the firms that serve them, with a focus on building sustainability into programs in ways that deliver for people, the planet, and the local economy.
Gina learns new subject matter quickly, sees how the pieces of a program connect, and turns what she finds into plans teams can act on. Agency leaders and project teams have relied on her calm, steady leadership to keep conversations productive when stakes are high or perspectives differ.
Her approach helps teams:
Gina is a strategist who enjoys walking into a tangle of moving parts and finding the order in it. Her work shows the range:
Strategy. She co-authored FRA's Climate and Sustainability Program Strategic Plan and Roadmap, writing the section the rest of the team used as their template and providing strategic direction. The plan earned the USDOT Secretary's Award.
Learning a new field fast. When a civil rights complaint overwhelmed FHWA's four-person team, she built working fluency in Title VI investigations and assembled a 25-person team to deliver. FHWA followed with a five-year contract.
Organizing the chaos. On FRA's $18 billion Northeast Corridor program, she worked with FRA and FTA to align requirements and modernized how the FRA program office ran its meetings, documents, and policy tracking.
Her work has also crossed borders, including collaboration with Transport Canada and contributions to the International Civil Aviation Organization's environmental committee.
That range rests on two decades at the U.S. Department of Transportation, at the Volpe Center and FRA, across highway, rail, aviation, transit, housing, and energy programs.
Read Gina's lessons from her work ⇾
Gina holds an M.A. in Energy and Environmental Analysis and a B.A. in Environmental Analysis and Policy, summa cum laude, from Boston University. She is the Advisory Board Chair and past president of WTS-Boston, spoke at the 2026 WTS International Conference, and is a Climatebase Fellow in Cohort 10.
We give honest, responsible guidance so leaders can make informed decisions.
We take on work that advances environmental and community outcomes, balancing benefits for people, the planet, and the economy.
We work closely with partners and communities to create strategies that resonate and hold up in practice.
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