The 2025 Donald Shoup Award Recipients
These exceptional individuals have demonstrated outstanding leadership, creativity, and dedication in transforming parking policies to build a more vibrant and sustainable future.
Individual Award
Catie Gould
Catie is a leading storyteller, researcher, and advocate for parking reform whose work helped win groundbreaking parking reforms in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and in Anchorage, Alaska. Contributing to these wins were her numerous local stories spotlighting small businesses and homebuilding efforts harmed by parking mandates; her cataloguing dozens of cities’ arcane parking rules in a report for lawmakers and advocates; her compelling testimony in public hearings; and her reliable aid to legislative champions as a policy expert. She is a senior researcher with Sightline Institute and a contributor to the forthcoming book The Shoup Doctrine, honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Donald Shoup. Learn more about Catie’s work at sightline.org/parking.
Organization Award
Austin Parking Reform Coalition (APRC)
APRC is a coalition of diverse organizations and advocates founded in 2021. Working with diverse stakeholders—including elected officials, local businesses, and disability rights advocates—APRC successfully advocated for eliminating parking mandates citywide in 2023, making Austin the largest city in the US to do so (still to this day!). The Coalition is now working on a further set of parking reforms in Austin, and it continues to support other parking reform groups across Texas and the country.
Policymaker Award
Stephanie Vigil
Stephanie is a courageous policymaker and coalition-builder whose leadership was instrumental in passing Colorado’s landmark statewide parking reform, HB 1304, which eliminated many residential parking mandates. Central to this victory was her role as the bill’s primary House sponsor; her skillful advocacy in building a diverse and effective coalition; and her unwavering commitment to housing affordability and equity. A former (and future) state Representative for central Colorado Springs, she is one of the few public leaders with a working-class background, using that lived experience to work towards justice, equity, and inclusion. Stephanie currently serves as the executive director for a local civic engagement non-profit.