Tasha Higgins is director of the program management division in the Port of Long Beach. Calif., Engineering Services Bureau, reporting to the Chief Harbor Engineer. She was named to the post in March by the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners, after having served as assistant director since October 2020. 

Her three decades of experience includes working with Long Beach Transit, the California Dept. of Transportation (Caltrans), Los Angeles County Metro, and City of Los Angeles World Airports, as well as private industry experience with Arcadis and others. Higgins was also founding principal and CEO of HigginsWorks LLC. She earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering in 1993 from the University of California, Irvine, as an active member in the National Society of Black Engineers, and obtained a MBA degree summa cum laude from the Cromwell School of Business at Biola University in 2017.