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Yesterday we welcomed Steve Clark to staff, and today we are introducing Amelia Neptune, our new Bicycle Friendly America Program Specialist. We’re excited to welcome Amelia to staff! She’ll be managing the Bicycle Friendly Business and Bicycle Friendly University programs.
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The League is excited to announce a new member of our staff: Stephen Clark. A longtime bike advocate, Steve is our new Bicycle Friendly Community Specialist, and he’ll be traveling across the country visiting communities to help them become more bike friendly. So what’s Steve’s story? Here’s a quick Q&A on Steve’s biking background…
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On a beautiful fall day in 1997, my life was changed. I was competing in a mountain bike race when one of my pedals hit a log and I was thrown violently from my bike.I had broken my pelvis in three places. The physical pain was almost unbearable – but the emotional pain of the injuries was much worse. I was a single mother of two young girls, lying helpless in hospital bed with no health insurance.
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Devlynn Chen, a member of our Equity Advisory Council, worked with the League on an internship this summer to help us better understand what motivates youth to ride and how to engage them in advocacy. The result? A new report, authored by Chen, on “Engaging Youth in Bicycle Advocacy.”
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The National Organization for Women (NOW) is one of the most influential voices for gender equality and women’s interests. We’re honored to welcome NOW President, Terry O’Neill, as a keynote speaker at the 2014 National Women’s Bicycling Forum! Read more about O’Neill’s impressive work.
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On today’s date in 1878, Marshall “Major” Taylor was born into an African-American family in Indianapolis. Taylor went on to a groundbreaking career as a bike racer, back in the age when Madison Square Garden was a velodrome and people flocked to see bike races. In an era characterized by the twisted asymmetry of “separate but equal,” when the League’s own membership was divided over racial segregation, Major Taylor flourished as the only African-American cyclist to reach the apex of the racing world.
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In August, we released Women on a Roll, which included a wealth of information on the power and potential of female bicyclists. But we didn’t stop with the report. We hosted an infographic contest, calling on bicycling creatives to make the information visually compelling. Well, we have our Grand Prize Winner!
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This month, citizens went to the poll and voted on transportation ballot measures. Seventy-three percent of transit measures passed, showing – yet again – that voters want to see their tax dollars spent on smart transportation investments. As described in Advocacy Advance’s recent report, “Success at the Ballot Box: Winning Bicycle-Pedestrian Ballot Measures” more and more bicycle and pedestrian advocates are pairing up with transit to achieve success at the ballot box. As states, regions and cities are looking for local sources of critical transportation dollars, this is a great funding opportunity for multi-modal projects.
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Joy Covey helped catapult Amazon.com from a small company to the global powerhouse. Earlier this year, while bicycling, she was struck by a delivery van and killed — one of hundreds of men and women killed while bicycling each year. This has to change — and a one-sentence bill in Congress could do it.
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The League’s Board of Directors serves a critical role in guiding the organization to a sustainable and vibrant future. Georgette Yaindl is member-manager of Preventive Law Hawaii LLLC, a public interest law organization committed to eliminating injury and legal conflict from neighborhoods, roadways, and workplaces through “preventive” community legal education.
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