Building the People Powered Movement
The Alliance Board
Alliance for Biking & Walking Board Photo 3-8-11 L to R: Dorian Grilley, Scott Bricker, Adolfo Hernandez, Randy Neufeld, Leah Shahum, Colin Peppard, Barbara Culp, Mark Wyatt, Rob Sadowsky, Dan Grunig, Noah Budnick
Noah Budnick, Chair
Noah is the Senior Policy Advisor at Transportation Alternatives (TA) in New York City, where he focuses his passion on local initiatives for better bicycle and pedestrian facilities in one of the world’s most vibrant cities. He works with staff to craft political, organizing, and media strategies to win livable streets. He was recently honored with a Revson Foundation Fellowship at Columbia University (2008-2009) and, he was also awarded the David Gurin Award for Improving Biking and Walking in New York City in 2009. Also a board member of the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative and City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization, Noah has been a remarkable leader for the Alliance.
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Barbara is the Executive Director of the Bicycle Alliance of Washington, a job she returned to after a 3-year hiatus to work as a consultant and to launch an award-winning bicycle program at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Barbara focuses on statewide policy and legislation in Washington State, which was named the #1 state for bicycling for two years by the League of American Bicycling. A passionate bicycle advocate, bicycling tourist, and daily bike commuter, she excels at building partnerships and alliances all across Washington. The Bicycle Alliance of Washington under her direction is pioneering a new outreach effort called Hub and Spoke.
Executive Director
Bicycle Alliance of Washington
PO Box 2904
Seattle, WA 98111
http://www.bicyclealliance.org/
(206)224-9252
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John has been an advocacy leader for the past two decades with a couple of local organizations, and in 2008, John co-founded Bike, Walk Ohio! He is working to build it into an effective statewide advocacy organization with the top priority to win an Ohio Complete Streets bill. As President of the Central Ohio Bicycle Advocacy Coalition, now known as “Consider Biking”, he helped lead the organization to several strategic wins including getting a regional Complete Streets policy adopted, partnering with the Columbus Mayor's Green Team to create and run a valet bicycle parking program (“Pedal Instead"), and getting both a Safe Routes to School and a comprehensive bike plan adopted locally. Consider Biking’s work with Columbus also helped get the city recognized in 2009 by the League of American Bicyclists as a Bronze level Bicycle Friendly Community – Ohio's first. John received his J.D. from the Ohio State University in 1978 and has practiced labor/employment law and criminal appellate law.
Cofounder
Bike/Walk Ohio
91 Chaucer Court
Worthington, OH 43085-3905
614-885-8364
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Dan heads Colorado’s statewide bicycle advocacy organization promoting bicycling for transportation, health, and recreation. Bicycle Colorado and its 7,000 members led the successful legislative efforts to create the Colorado Safe Routes to School program, pass the Bicycle Safety Act and begin the Colorado Share the Road Education Fund. Dan is also a member of the Denver Regional Council of Governments’ Transportation Advisory Committee and the Denver Metro Living Streets Initiative. He holds a master’s degree in non-profit business from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is a nationally certified cycling instructor.
Executive Director
Bicycle Colorado
1525 Market Street, Suite 100
Denver, CO 80202-1661
http://www.BicycleColorado.org
303-417-1544
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Mark Wyatt founded the Iowa Bicycle Coalition in 2004 after attending our Chicago Winning Campaigns Training. The organization built upon the victory of beating back a proposed bike ban in Iowa. Following the Alliance's models, he and his board took the organization to a sustainable and effective level in just two years. In early 2006, he was hired as IBC’s first Executive Director. The Iowa Bicycle Coalition has a thriving Safe Routes to School program, a model two-day bicycle advocacy conference, and successful membership program. It has successfully fended off further attempts to ban bicycles and pushed the positive benefits to Iowa’s health and economy.
Executive Director
Iowa Bicycle Coalition
P.O. Box 5562
Coralville, IA 52241
http://www.iowabicyclecoalition.org
515-309-2867
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Randy is the director of the SRAM Cycling Fund, which supports innovative efforts to promote cycling in Europe and the U.S. Randy is also a strategic management consultant for the National Complete Streets Coalition. For over 20 years, he served as a leader for the Active Transportation Alliance (formally known as Chicagoland Bicycle Federation), starting as executive director in 1987-2004 and then Chief Strategy Officer 2004 - 2009. He continues to be active as a board member. Not only has he been a leader in pedestrian and bicycle advocacy, both locally and nationally, he has direct experience in planning, mapping, safety education, marketing, design, funding, policy, and public involvement. He is also president of America Bikes: the national coalition of organizations working to grow bicycling through federal transportation policy and funding, of which the Alliance is a proud member. He was the founding chair of the Alliance.
SRAM Cycling Fund Director
SRAM
Chicago, IL
http://sram.com
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Scott is the Executive Director of Bike Pittsburgh. An everyday bike commuter, who has cycled across the country, he is a vocal advocate for cyclists' rights. He is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University, where he earned a B.S. in Public Policy and Management in 1999. After graduation, Scott lived in San Francisco for two years, where he worked for a dot-com and a software company before returning in 2001 to co-found Bike Pittsburgh. Scott also sits on the board of Pennsylvania Walks & Bikes.
Executive Director
Bike Pittsburgh
3410 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
http://www.bike-pgh.org
412-325-4334
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As the Executive Director of the Capital Bike and Walk Society, John works tirelessly to build on Victoria’s many victories for bicycle access. His political savvy and unpredictable ingenuity set him apart from other bicycle advocates in his area as the one to turn to for vision and setting the highest goals for bicycling in Victoria. He brings these qualities to our board, keeping us at the ready for brilliant tactics or sidesplitting laughter.
Executive Director
Capital Bike and Walk Society
22 Philippa Place
Victoria, BC V8S 1S6
http://capitalbikeandwalk.org
250-592-4753
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Jeff is co-founder and President of the Board of LivableStreets Alliance, a Boston-based transportation and urban planning non-profit.
He is currently employed by the City of Cambridge as a transportation planner. Jeff has over 15 years experience in consulting, research, training & education, public policy, and community advocacy at the intersection of environment, business, and community engagement.
Internationally, he has worked on sustainable development projects in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Jeff has a masters degree in Civil / Environmental Engineering and Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and holds a Professional Engineering License from the State of Maine.
LivableStreets Alliance is part of the new wave of advocacy that includes all modes (biking, walking, transit) and integrates transportation into other issues, such as quality of life, public health, economic vitality, and climate change. As a result, we inspire a wider range of constituents to support progressive transportation reform. Inspiration for the organization's name came from Donald Appleyard's 1981 book "Livable Streets" which confronted the negative social impacts of street traffic on the fabric of urban neighborhoods.
President
LivableStreets Alliance
70 Pacific Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
http://livablestreets.info
(617)939-3824
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After nearly three decades working for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the Parks & Trails Council, Dorian Grilley took the reins of the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota in 2008. But he was no stranger to advocacy, having been a dedicated volunteer for the organization and a long-time bike commuter and racer. With his election to the Alliance board, Grilley says he's eager to share his non-profit experience and work with Alliance members "to make it safe, easy, fun and cool for more people to bicycle more often."
Executive Director
Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota
214 Park Ave.
Mahtomedi, MN 55115-1645
http://www.bikemn.org
(651) 387-2445
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Adolfo Hernandez joined Chicago's Active Transportation Alliance in 2007 at its Community Liaison to the Latino Community. Now the Director of Advocacy, Hernandez organizes and leads campaigns addressing transportation safety, accessibility and equity throughout the city and suburbs, while also serving on the mayor's Pedestrian and Bicycle Advisory Council. "It is an exciting opportunity and honor to join the Alliance's board," Hernandez says. "I'm looking forward to helping the Alliance reach it's goals while sharing experiences and learning from our advocacy work in the Chicagoland region."
Director of Advocacy
Active Transportation Alliance
9 W Hubbard Suite 402
Chicago, IL 60610
312-427-3325
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Growing up in San Francisco, Terry Preston jokes that he did, indeed, walk up-hill both ways to school. "I learned to love the freedom, the fresh air and low overhead of walking," he says. "Every child and every adult should have the same opportunity." Now the Complete Streets Coordinator for WALKSacramento, he works to make roadways accessible to pedestrians of all ages and brings a fresh voice for walking to the Alliance board of directors.
Complete Streets Coordinator
WALKSacramento
909 12th Street
SACRAMENTO, CA 95814
http://www.walksacramento.org
916-446-9255
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Since 2008, Lisa has been the Executive Director of Feet First. This year Feet First celebrates 10 years of promoting walkable communities across Washington State. Lisa has secured numerous contracts that support safe walking, including the first statewide pedestrian curriculum developed in conjunction with the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. For nearly two decades, Lisa has been successful at providing social marketing and management of transportation programs for businesses, non-governmental organizations and colleges and universities.
Executive Director
Feet First
314 First Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98114
(206)652-2310
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Rob Sadowsky became the executive director of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, in Portland, Oregon, in June 2010. Previously, Rob served as Executive Director of the Active Transportation Alliance in Chicago, Illinois, for six years from 2004 to 2010. He has more than 23 years of non-profit advocacy and management experience working on issues of affordable housing, community economic development and transportation policy. He serves on the board of the Alliance for Biking & Walking, the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation and the League of American Bicyclists.
Executive Director
Bicycle Transportation Alliance
618 NW Glisan Street, Suite 401
Portland, OR 97209
http://btaoregon.org
503-226-0676
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Leah Shahum is the Executive Director of the 12,000-member San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, which works to promote bicycling for everyday transportation. Under her leadership, the SF Bicycle Coalition has become one of the largest and strongest advocacy groups in San Francisco. Their community organizing is helping to significantly boost the number of people bicycling, as well as boosting the understanding of how bicycling can help make a better city. Leah formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway & Transportation District, as well as the SF Municipal Transportation Agency.
Executive Director
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
995 Market St., Ste. 1550
San Francisco, CA 94110
http://www.sfbike.org
415-431-2453
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Sarah Strunk is Director of Active Living By Design, part of the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She has been with ALBD since its inception, first serving as Deputy Director from 2002-2005. As Director, Strunk focuses on organizational development, strategic planning, business development, program development and external partnerships. Previously, she was Director of External Affairs at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health. She also served as Director of Corporate Planning at BlueCross and BlueShield of North Carolina, and in strategic and business planning roles at Duke University Medical Center and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. Strunk earned a master of healthcare administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a bachelor of arts in public policy from Duke University. Outside of the office, she enjoys running, cooking and doing volunteer work.
Director
Active Living By Design
400 Market Street, Suite 205
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
http://www.activelivingbydesign.org/
(919) 843-3122
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Invest in biking and walking advocacy where it matters most... on the ground!
Working with Your Members of Congress --Call on February 08
Advocacy Advance Capacity Building Grants Q&A Call --Call on February 16
Advocacy Advance Capacity Building Grants Q&A Call --Call on February 17
02/02/2012 - Attend the National Women Cycling Forum
02/01/2012 - House Bill Erases Two Decades of Progress on Bike-Ped
02/01/2012 - Transforming Transportation Panel: Make Cycling Easy
01/31/2012 - New Report Highlights Biking and Walking in Rural America
