About Us
Taylor bailey
Taylor’s diverse career experience gives them a holistic approach to transit consulting, grounded in their early work as a domestic violence victim advocate. Taylor is a licensed attorney and member of the Oregon Bar and applies their legal expertise and social work lens to their work with public transit technology and consulting.
After finishing law school, taylor returned to work in the tech industry, focusing on business operations, writing, and procurement as Chief Operating Officer for a local transit technology firm. Since starting Garnet Consulting, taylor has worked on a variety of projects with a variety of clients including small and large transit agencies, the USDOT, state DOTs, other transit experts, and community associations.
Taylor specializes in project management, technical writing, stakeholder feedback, and designing equitable systems. Taylor enjoys opportunities to work with queer, genderqueer/trans, and disabled transit riders and focusing on projects that improve access to transit for folks who are most transit-dependent. They are knowledgeable about a variety of transit technology tools and data specs including GTFS, GTFS-Flex, and GTFS-Fares.
In their free time taylor likes to pet their cat, read about cemeteries, cook vegan food, and talk to Nome about Pokémon.
Nome Dickerson
Nome is passionate about creating accessible and inclusive technology that makes a meaningful impact. They have spent years working in the transit industry, including time as a Chief Technology Officer and Chief Software Architect. These roles shaped their belief that great technology comes from balancing the needs of users and the people who build it.
Nome has been at the forefront of advancing transit data standards, helping with first implementations of GTFS-Flex, GTFS-Fares v2, and TDS (Transactional Data Specification). They’re especially passionate about improving technology for small and rural transit agencies—communities that are too often left out of the conversation in favor of big metropolitan systems. Nome has worked on performing technology assessments, building better transit data, and creating tools to help agencies understand and improve their services.
Outside of work, Nome enjoys writing, building reptile habitats, plotting how they would win “Survivor,” and spending time with their two cats, Stevie and Dolly.
