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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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Back to the mountains

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 ...

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, ...

A beautiful, friendly city that I would love to return to and explore more, along with the rest of the Baltic states

A week was not enough. I should have visited much sooner!

The all-too-common problem of funders going radio silent without the courtesy say "no".

A quick day and a half in Copenhagen in the middle of 2017 Behind the Iron Curtain tour.

It's never a dull day in this world, and often the full range from good to bad happens on the same day.

Tips, tricks, and resources for visiting the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine.

From Wichita to Chernobyl, and everything in between.

A stopover en route to visiting the Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone turned out to be a delightful surprise

A week in Portugal studying the nonprofit and government sectors for grad school.

How nonprofits can make decisions about what’s important.

Two weeks in the Mother City, one of my favorite places on earth.

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 ...

Might be getting back into writing...

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 ...

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 ...

Continent #3 ✔️ Plus Lisbon, Paris, London, and Vancouver.

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 ...

Stayed close to home for grad school this year.

Added Palo Alto and a day trip back to San Francisco.