Marc Schlossberg, PhD is a UO Professor of City and Regional Planning who focuses on redesigning cities so that more people can walk and bike more of the time. Over the years, this work has ranged from bottom-up, participatory GIS planning to more standard analysis of urban form and transportation to the completion of three, free, publicly available case study books on Rethinking Streets. Marc teaches courses on bicycle transportation, both based at the UO and a study abroad version where he takes students and professionals to Denmark and the Netherlands for a month of immersive education. He is a twice awarded Fulbright Scholar who has co-created a university-community educational model now being replicated across four continents and prior to pursuing a PhD was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji.

https://blogs.uoregon.edu/schlossb/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-schlossberg-1148715/

Dwan Shepard started tinkering with bikes as a toddler, later becoming the unofficial neighborhood bike fixer for a gang of scrappy kids in Coos Bay. Not so many years later, he started a little bike company called Co-Motion Cycles that has developed a worldwide reputation for bicycles of quality and integrity since 1988. He jumped at the chance to get involved with FreeBikes4Kidz Eugene Springfield when Burley’s CEO Mike Coughlin and his daughter Allison started an FB4K franchise here, and currently serves as FB4K Eugene-Springfield’s board president.

https://fb4keugene-springfield.org/

https://www.facebook.com/FreeBikes4KidzEugeneSpringfield/

Lucy is an organizer with Dirt Maidens, an inclusive, intersectional, powerhouse biking and trail stewardship organization led by and for femme, women, trans, and nonbinary people (FWTN-B*) that provides mountain biking, gravel biking, bike packing, and trail building opportunities in Kalapuya ilihi* and surrounding areas (the southern Willamette Valley).

Kalapuya ilihi means the homelands of the Kalapuya people. We acknowledge that we all live, work, and ride on Kalapuya ilhi and the homelands of other Indigenous communities, including the Alsea, Molalla, and Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde and Siletz.

Facebook: Dirt Maidens

Instagram: @dirt_maidens

info@dirt_maidens.org

Dirt Maidens is a non-profit registered in Oregon, Tax ID # 88-2114440

Dirt Maidens is not yet a 501(cX3) (but it's a goal!)

Jim and Josh run Shift Community Cycles, a local nonprofit community bike shop dedicated to removing barriers and empowering more individuals and communities to join the world of bicycling. They work with a dedicated team of volunteers and community partners to connect people with bicycles through education, advocacy, and community-informed outreach. Their current programs include Fix Your Bike for DIY bike maintenance and education; Summer Youth Programs for mentorship and mechanical education about the world of bicycles for middle-through-high-school aged kids; Learn to Ride to teach people of all ages how to ride; and annually act as operations manager for FreeBikes4Kidz to coordinate volunteers to refurbish and match donated bicycles with kids in need.

https://www.shiftcc.org/

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