- ↜ As Tech Invades Cycling, Are Bike Activists Selling Out? | WIRED
January 19, 2019
We are building an ecosystem of active transportation professionals across the nonprofit, government, academic, institutional, and private sectors. When our employees gain diverse experiences in ...
- 🚴🏾♀️ A network approach to bike equity
January 14, 2019
Walkable and bikeable neighborhoods are in high demand, so when their availability is limited they are expensive. Building a large bike/ped network all at once ...
- 📊 We already run our nonprofits like businesses
January 10, 2019
"You should run your nonprofit like a business" is common unsolicited advice that often signals a fundamental misunderstanding or ignorance about the nonprofit sector. We ...
- ✈️ Year in Cities 2018
December 26, 2018
Back to the mountains
- 🤔 Combating Decision Fatigue
September 22, 2018
Decision fatigue is a real thing. We all have a finite daily capacity for making decisions. Stewarding that capacity is a key part of success ...
- Rocky Mountain National Park
August 30, 2018
Back to the mountains for a proper visit for the first time in years. Based at Moraine Park Campground for an unplugged week of camping, ...
- 🇱🇻Visiting Riga, Lativa
June 23, 2018
A beautiful, friendly city that I would love to return to and explore more, along with the rest of the Baltic states
- 🇩🇪 Visiting Berlin
April 26, 2018
A week was not enough. I should have visited much sooner!
- 👻 Funders who ghost
March 24, 2018
The all-too-common problem of funders going radio silent without the courtesy say "no".
- 🇩🇰 Copenhagen Quick Hit
February 28, 2018
A quick day and a half in Copenhagen in the middle of 2017 Behind the Iron Curtain tour.
- 💩💰Nonprofit life goes up, down, and sideways
February 15, 2018
It's never a dull day in this world, and often the full range from good to bad happens on the same day.
- ☣️Visiting the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Site
January 31, 2018
Tips, tricks, and resources for visiting the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.
- 🇪🇺 Year in Cities 2017
December 26, 2017
From Wichita to Chernobyl, and everything in between.
- 🇺🇦Visiting Kyiv, Ukraine
December 15, 2017
A stopover en route to visiting the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone turned out to be a delightful surprise
- 🇵🇹 Visiting Lisbon
November 29, 2017
A week in Portugal studying the nonprofit and government sectors for grad school.
- Ⓜ The Four M’s of Nonprofit Decision-Making
October 17, 2017
How nonprofits can make decisions about what’s important.
- 🇿🇦Visiting Cape Town, South Africa
June 13, 2017
Two weeks in the Mother City, one of my favorite places on earth.
- 🎧 I’m on the Bike Nerds Podcast
April 22, 2017
This month I'm honored to be a guest on The Bike Nerds Podcast. We talked about nonprofit startups, bike success in unlikely places, and the ...
- 🎙️Is this thing on?
April 10, 2017
Might be getting back into writing...
- 🎫 Conference presentation: National Bike Summit 2017
March 22, 2017
I presented at the 2017 National Bike Summit about our success in Kansas City advocating for $150 million for sidewalks and important policy changes to ...
- 🇫🇷 Four Hours in Paris
March 13, 2017
My first time in Paris was a brief afternoon layover on the way from Lisbon to London, flying in and transferring to the Eurostar. I ...
- 🌍 Year in Cities 2016
December 30, 2016
Continent #3 ✔️ Plus Lisbon, Paris, London, and Vancouver.
- 🇨🇦 Vancouver Visit 2016
November 10, 2016
Back in one of my favorite cities for a week in September 2016. It was a work trip, but I managed to squeeze in some ...
- Year in Cities 2015
January 9, 2016
Stayed close to home for grad school this year.
- Year in Cities 2014
January 2, 2015
Added Palo Alto and a day trip back to San Francisco.