Citizens for Modern Transit Elects Des Peres Resident to Board

The region’s transit advocacy organization, Citizens for Modern Transit (CMT), elected Marc Scheessele, of Des Peres, Mo., to its Board of Directors during the organization’s 35th Annual Meeting held in downtown St. Louis last week. Scheessele is the current director of government relations for Saint Louis University. As a board member, he will serve a three-year term.

Scheessele represents Saint Louis University at the federal, state and local levels of government and is charged with monitoring policy initiatives and serving as the chief advocate for all legislative and regulatory issues impacting the university’s students, faculty and staff. Prior to his role at SLU, he served as the deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the United States Department of Education. Scheessele has also worked on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, where he spent nearly a decade as a senior-level advisor to elected officials in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.

For more information about Citizens for Modern Transit, visit www.cmt-stl.org or call (314) 231-7272. Those interested can also like the organization on Facebook or follow them on Twitter @cmt_stl.