Bob Graham, President. Bob is an architect who has served on the Board since 2012. In his professional capacity, he has provided design and planning expertise to many museums around the state. In addition to his work with the Trolley Museum, he is President of the Grand Avenue Members Association, the neighborhood group that encompasses the museum’s property, and was founding President of the Grand Avenue Rail Project. He is a past chair of the Phoenix Central City Village Planning Committee and currently serves on the city’s Design Review Committee. Bob is an avid devotee of the history of Phoenix, manifested in his leadership of the revived Phoenix Pioneer Band.

 

Jim McPherson, Vice President. Jim is a public affairs consultant and, in his free time, an advocate for historic preservation, community development, urban planning, and healthcare policy. He has authored two books on local history: one on Downtown Phoenix and the other on his hometown of Hartville, Ohio.​

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Lanny Trapnell, Secretary. Lanny is a retired software developer, computer systems analyst, and technical writer. He has a lifelong interest in passenger transportation past, present, and future. This includes buses, trains, planes, and more. Although his “day jobs” were not in transportation, they provided lots of opportunities for transit research near and far.​​

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Matt Jewett, Treasurer. Matt has been involved with the Museum since 2015 and joined the board in 2023. Matt has worked in nonprofit grants and as an advocate for causes dear to his heart. He successfully wrote a grant to Arizona Humanities for the Museum's oral history project of those who remember riding Phoenix’s original streetcar system prior to 1948. Matt graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in political science and studied graduate level public health at A.T. Still University. Matt enjoys cars, trolleys, and a good cup of tea.

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Will Keller, Board Member. Will is a retired Naval architect who worked in shipyards in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan.  He was an active member of the Railways to Yesterday Museum at Rockhill Furnace, PA from 1970-1979, where he assisted in the acquisition and initial restoration of former York, PA Railways car #163. Will is a past board president of the Museum.

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Isabella Ogle, Board Member. Bella Ogle comes to us with over 5 years of non-profit marketing experience with both grass roots and digital marketing efforts. Originally from Washington state she received her Bachelors of Arts in Marketing from Eastern Washington University. 

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Amy Reith, Board Member. Amy Rieth is a doctoral student studying archaeology at Arizona State University with focuses on computational archaeology, network analysis, and geographic information system (GIS) analysis.  Originating in Spartanburg, SC, Rieth's public transit interest started primarily through visits to the local Hub City Railroad Museum, which, much like the Phoenix Trolley Museum, showcased the origins and development of crucial public rail and transit systems that sustained citywide communities.

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Ken Withers, Board Member. Ken Withers is a retired attorney and former Executive Director of The Sedona Conference, a Phoenix-based non-profit legal policy think tank. Ken is veteran urbanist and public transit advocate, going back to the 1970’s as a cub reporter covering Boston’s MBTA for the Northeastern University News while working at the Museum of Transportation.  Ken has a Juris Doctorate from Northwestern University in Chicago and a Masters in Library and Information Science from Simmons University in Boston, with additional studies in history and legal informatics at Aberystwyth and Cambridge Universities in the UK.

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