Leslie D. Jones is a Senior Level Manager of Diversity Programs at Sound Transit. Her responsibilities include, among others, adherence to local mandates set by the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. She is responsible for insuring the agency's compliance with the U. S. Department of Transportation/Federal Transit Administration's (DOT/FTA) Disadvantaged Business Enterprise and Title VI regulations. She oversees the organizational structure of the Diversity Programs Office, its activities and strategies to encourage and promote local and small business (which include minority and women businesses) participation, equal employment opportunity policies for 3rd Party contracts, Title VI compliance for Sound Transit's Project Labor Agreement (PLA). She earned her B.S. in Business Administration from City University of Seattle in 1990.