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The BTA's Wonderful Staff Rob Sadowsky, Executive Director
Rob Sadowsky joined the BTA as executive director 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 over 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 and Walking and the League of American Bicyclists.
Lisa first came to the BTA in the summer of 2009 when she volunteered to help organize the Alice Awards + Auction. After seeing Alice through a successful 2010 event, Lisa joined the staff full-time as Development Director in August 2010. An east coast transplant 16 years ago, Lisa brings years of fundraising experience and a passion for Portland and the impact bikes have on our lifestyle. She was delighted when her first day commuting on two wheels brought the scent of both roses and jasmine in one trip. She is happy to add biking next to knitting atop her list of interests.
A life-long fan of bikes, Kristin is delighted to be part of the membership and development team at the BTA. An Idaho native, her background is a mix of action-oriented science, conservation, education, and organizing. While earning her Master's in Science in Michigan, Kristin volunteered with the MSU community Bike Project and greater Lansing's Smart Commute Week, commuted by bike through five Michigan winters and raced for Michigan State. Since moving to Portland in 2008 Kristin has put her science education skills to work with OMSI and the Art Institute of Portland, worked with the great crew at the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, fallen in love with bike moves, volunteered regularly with the Community Cycling Center, and concluded that bike racing in the Portland area is speedy. When not working, fitting helmets or playing leapfrog with buses, Kristin is likely hiking, baking, reading, and/or dreaming of cyclocross.
Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio Jay developed two passions in his life: riding bicycles and telling children what to do. In April 2010 he was excited to join the BTA as a Walk + Bike Ambassador, where he gets to teach bike and pedestrian safety to kids and ride his bicycle. Jay discovered the freedom of bicycling at an early age while riding around the neighborhood, and in high school he participated in the Great Ohio Bicycle Adventure, a 350-mile tour of his home state. Jay earned a degree in Secondary Education from Montana State before moving to Portland in 2005, bringing his love of bicycling with him. While attending graduate school at PSU, Jay worked for the Community Cycling Center as an Adult Programs Coordinator and Summer Camp Counselor. If you see Jay running around town it doesn't mean his bicycle is broken; he just really enjoys running.
LeeAnne joined the BTA in August of 2007 as a bike safety education instructor, and later took on the role of Education Programs Manager in 2010. Growing up in Texas, she merrily moved away to New York City for a few years after college. In New York she gave up her car and learned about the exciting world of bike commuting, walking and public transportation. Following the big city, she took a 6 month, 1700 mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. In a round about way, this led her to Tucson, AZ where she worked as a crew member for the Southwest Conservation Corps. She then joined their staff as a recruiter, hiring all new crew members, providing field support and organizing their community outreach work. In Tucson she also taught and worked as a teacher’s aide for a 3rd and 4th grade class at Satori Charter School. LeeAnne loves exploring her new digs with her partner, Jon-Paul, and with reading, hiking, eating tasty food…and biking, naturally.
Adam joined the BTA in May of 2010 to maintain and improve IT infrastructure, and get to the bottom of technology enigmas. He arrived at the BTA with 7 years experience in network security and administration at The United States Supreme Court and various educational institutions. A native of dense East Coast cities, Adam is a long time urban biking advocate, and believer in livable communities and healthy commuting. When he’s not at the BTA or biking around the city Adam’s probably playing music, listening to music, or thinking about music.
Sheilagh joined the BTA in the spring of 2010 after volunteering on BTA bike safety community rides in Portland. She enjoys commuting, endurance riding, and racing. Family time might include racing together in the 2010 Cyclocross Nationals or just a nice Sunday ride with her husband, son and daughter. Sheilagh also volunteers for the Oregon Bike Racing Association, Cycle Oregon, ORBike, and Bidge Pedal, she regularly participates in cycling events such as Reach The Beach, Seattle to Portland, Ride Around Clark County, Harvest Century, Watermelon rides, RSVP, Torture 10,000 and organizes Sunday training rides for her team The Nomads.
After volunteering in the office in support of the National Walk+Bike to School Day, Joel joined the staff in the fall of 2007 as a Bicycle Safety Education instructor. Now a Coordinator for the BTA’s Safe Routes to School program Joel hands out “I biked” stickers to third graders and helps wrangle the bike fleet for the BTA’s school programs. After work Joel is usually way too busy with self-employment as a bike bag maker, theater, music and trying to fit in all those bike repairs he has put off for way too long.
Before joining the BTA as Office and Finance Assistant, Chris lived in several frosty medium-sized Midwestern towns where he cycled freely through the quiet streets and vast parks and developed a strong independent streak that would often leave him late for dinner. At the University of Minnesota Chris studied Political Science and biked through snowuntil, after one too many frosty winter nights, he decided to move to Portland. Since then Chris has worked at the holiest of Portland institutions, the microbrewery. He also developed a passion for soccer and plays on a local softball team. Downtime finds him mulling over crossword clues and hovering over a stove, often with dubious results.
Gerik joined the BTA in 2010 as the Advocacy Campaign Manager focused on building strong public support for the Portland Bicycle Plan for 2030. As an advocate and organizer over the last ten years he focused on winning environmental, public health, and livability campaigns in the legislature and at the ballot box. A bicyclist originally from Eastern Montana, Gerik grew up mountain biking sandstone flats and backcountry singletrack. Now a daily bike commuter he likes to ride Mt. Tabor and Rocky Butte, and gets fired up about cross-town connections. When he is not volunteering for the Oregon Sierra Club or The Bus Project, Gerik spends as many weekends as possible surfing the cold waters of the Oregon Coast.
After never going home from the roadtrip that dropped him in Portland in 2006, Carl has become thoroughly enveloped by Portland's rich bike culture and is involving himself with just about everything bikey the city has to offer. Despite rumors to the contrary, however, it is true that Carl has spent some time not riding a bicyle. He took a break from his bikes at Middlebury College while studying sledding, skinny-dipping, cheese and architectural history, but a semester in Copenhagen brought him back to his old bikey habits. While living on an island in the St. Lawrence River, he commuted for a few summers by kayak to architecture, construction and environmental advocacy jobs. Recently, though, Carl spent the summer delivering alternative transportation resources by bike as part of the City of Portland's Smart Trips individualized marketing campaign and is now very happy to now be part of the Safer Routes to School team.
Margaux joined the BTA staff as an advocacy assistant in 2009 and is now the BTA's Communication Coordinator. Margaux became an advocate for biking and walking after spending a year in the cycle-friendly town of Strasbourg, France in 2005. After returning to Portland to finish her history degree, she worked as a barista and then traveled through South America, where she biked the world's most dangerous road. She loves food carts, Twitter, the New York Times crossword, and neighborhood transportation activism.
Stephanie has been an active participant in local bike culture since first moving to Portland in 2001. She holds a particular fondness for the Breakfast on the Bridge crew, the annual spring Bunny on a Bike Ride, and the wacky bicycle events coordinated through Shift. Stephanie has been a bike commuter since she finally got brave enough to remove her training wheels at age eight. During the summer of 2003 she biked from Portland, OR to Brooklyn, NY. Previous to joining the Safe Routes to School Team in March 2007, Stephanie served as assistant director at St. Francis Dining hall, worked as a landscape gardener, and led bike tours for teenagers. When not working or biking, Stephanie enjoys cooking, gardening, camping, reading, and playing old time banjo.
Susan joined the BTA in 2009 as the Statewide Advocate, working to connect Oregonians with active transportation resources while cultivating existing and creating new relationships within communities. Susan brings nearly six years of experience as a bicycle and pedestrian transportation consultant. Her consulting work in Chicago and nationally has included designing and implementing programs that reduce barriers for people to walk and bike more often. Susan is a Midwest transplant who cut her bicycle commuting teeth on the streets of Chicago during college. She was encouraged by a friend to purchase a bicycle in order to have a cheap and easy mode of transportation, never expecting to fall madly in love with the two-wheeled machines and spend nearly all her time working, riding, or talking about bicycles. Susan also loves to ride bikes fast and is vice president of her racing team, Veloforma.
Tom came to the BTA in March of 2006 as a volunteer and then became an intern on the Bicycle Boulevards Campaign where he helped to develop, administer and review an online survey and assisted with field work in Davis, CA, Berkeley, CA, Eugene, OR, Seattle, WA, and Vancouver, BC. Tom continued to volunteer in the office between classes at PSU following his internship and started working part-time as the Safe Routes To School program assistant following an internship with Alta Planning + Design. Tom completed his bachelor’s degree in community development in the spring of 2007. He enjoys hiking with his wife and dog, racing cyclocross and volunteering as a board member for Bikes To Rwanda. Tom and his wife Samantha welcomed their first child to their family in April, 2008.
Angie joined BTA in August 2010 as Finance Director. She brings over 12 years of experience in accounting and business administration in various sectors. An Oregon native, she returned to Portland in late 2009 after spending several years in Washington DC working as an accountant for a tax and estate planning law firm. She honed her bicycle commuting skills on the busy DC streets where she became a proponent of sustainable forms of transportation. Outside of the BTA, Angie is an active musician and lindy hop enthusiast. She also enjoys baking pies, crafting and
Amanda joined the BTA in August 2010 as a communications intern where she helps write and compile articles for the BTA blog and newsletter. As a Community Development major at PSU, Amanda has an interest in citizen participation, sustainability and urban planning, amongst other things. While she's not working, at school or helping out at the BTA, Amanda loves discovering new areas of Portland (even though she's lived here her whole life), playing golf and spending time at the library, as she enjoys reading a good book (although she will usually read anything she can get her hands on). |
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