Elisangela Oliveira, a bridge painter for the New York City Department of Transportation. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Kristina Ippolito, a project engineer at Judlau Contracting in New York City. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Hilda Solis was United States Secretary of Labor from 2009-2013 and the first female Latina member of the Cabinet. She is now a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Toni Atkins a member of the California State Senate and former Speaker of the California Assembly, representing San Diego, CA. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Maria Elena Durazo was the first female President of UNITE HERE Local 11 and the first female Executive SEC/TREAS of LA CLF. She is now General Vice President for Immigration, Civil Rights, and Diversity at UNITE HERE. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Lilla Wallace cleaning specialist at a railcar refurbishment facility in Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Brenda Martinez Shroeder is an audit line worker at the New Flyer Industries bus factory in St. Cloud, MN. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Dr. Beverly Scott is the President/CEO of Beverly Scott Associates and Vice Chair of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council. She previously served as General Manager/CEO of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, the Sacramento Regional Transit Authority, and the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Ruby Diaz a quality control technician at the Kinkisharyo railcar factory in Palmdale, CA. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Connie McCoy is the only woman who works in the traction motor department in the Siemens factory in Norwood, Ohio. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Jay Fatima Tapia is an Equipment Operator at a Railcar Maintenance Facility in Los Angeles, CA. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Maria Nunes-Rothstein is an assembly technician at the New Flyer Industries bus factory in St. Cloud, MN. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Ami Rasmussen is an interior assembly foreman at the Kinkisharyo railcar factory in Palmdale, CA. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Anne Latham is a manufacturing specialist at Alstom Transportation Inc., in Hornell, New York. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Veronique “Ronnie” Hakim is Interim Executive Director of the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Photo by Deanne Fitzmaurice

Jennifer-Narrod, a Specialist at Alstom Signaling Inc. in Rochester, New York.

Elizabeth Perry is an electrical work leader at Alstom Transportation Inc., in Hornell, New York.

Judith Mejia Melendez is a painter at the New Flyer Industries bus factory in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Chancy Davis is the only woman welder at the New Flyer Industries bus factory in St. Cloud, Minnesota.

Donna Comp-Penwarden is a quality interior inspector at the Nippon Sharyo railcar factory in Rochelle, Illinois.

Stacey Corcoran, an electrician at the Nippon Sharyo railcar manufacturing facility in Rochelle, Illinois.