Rebecca Higgins is Eno’s Vice President of Policy. Rebecca’s prior experience includes an appointment in the Biden-Harris Administration at the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council, as well as eight years of work in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee where she led the highways reauthorization work for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. She began her work in transportation as a Presidential Management Fellow at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Policy.
Originally from a small town outside of Albany, New York, Rebecca has an undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University. She resides in Washington DC with her husband and three children.
Eno Transportation Weekly Articles
To Reorganize USDOT, Start with the Senate Authorizers
November 14, 2025
November 14, 2025 - Decades of proposals to reorganize USDOT consistently stall not for policy reasons, but because of fragmented and overlapping Senate committee jurisdictions. Meaningful USDOT reform will only be possible if Congress first...
At Senate Nominations Hearing, Transportation Policy Overshadowed by Partisanship
November 7, 2025
November 7, 2025 - A Senate hearing on transportation policy nominees devolved into an odd partisan spat about one Senator tracking the VIN numbers of the staff of another Senator.

