Women's Cycling History, Resources & Preliminary APBP Survey Results: Fionnuala Quinn, civil engineer, JEiT girls engineering program (Fionnuala instigated APBP's Women Cycling project and grew up bicycling in Ireland)

Cycling Fashion: Caz Nicklin, Managing Director of Cyclechic Ltd in London (using her diploma in Environmental decision-making, Caz created a company to promote and endorse sustainable living)

Cycling Successes: Case studies and snapshots

Recommendations and Next Steps: Kit Keller, APBP Executive Director, participant on the FHWA/AASHTO/NCHRP International Scan on Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety and Mobility
Questions
Conclusion: Announcement of APBP Women & Girls Cycling Photo and Video Contest

 

As part of this project, women and girls are invited to take a "snapshot in time survey” at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/womencycling. We would like to hear from non-cyclists as well as current and past cyclists. Preliminary survey results highlighted during the webinar; final results available after May 15, 2010 when the survey closes.

For more info, contact Kit Keller at kit@apbp.org or 262-375-6180

This webinar made possible by a generous contribution from the Family of Mrs. Neill L Miller (1938-2005) Barry University HPLS faculty.

APBP's webinar occurs on the last day of 30th anniversary of Women's History Month; this year's theme is "Writing Women Back into History.” APBP is delighted to open a dialog during this annual recognition and celebration of women's history on why women and girls are cycling less and what would encourage them to cycle more. [For more information about women's history, visit www.nwhp.org.]

Laura Sandt is a Research Associate at the Highway Safety Research Center (HSRC) and the Associate Director of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC), a national clearinghouse of bicycle- and pedestrian-related data, tools, training, and resources for professionals and community members, www.pedbikeinfo.org. Laura has been involved with several other Federally-funded pedestrian and bicycling research projects and programs aimed at various audiences. In 2008, Laura participated in a research exchange program with SWOV, the Institute for Roadway Safety in Leischendam, Netherlands, during which time she spent several weeks bicycling around the country and learning about the barriers and opportunities faced by women (and other) bicyclists in Europe, and how they relate to issues faced in the US. Laura holds a Master's degree in City and Regional Planning with a concentration in Transportation and Land Use planning. She is completing coursework for a Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, with a concentration in Injury Prevention.

 

Fionnuala Quinn is a licensed civil engineer who originally came to the US to work for the City of Philadelphia on an Irish government program. She then worked with a county engineering office in New Jersey before subsequently moving to Virginia and becoming a consultant with Parsons Engineering Science. During a career break to raise her family, she focused on community engineering advocacy, especially road safety design issues. She now runs a girls engineering program, serves on the board of Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling and is finalizing an engineering handbook for bicycling advocates. She conducts public workshops in her community to encourage members of the public to engage better with the public engineering design process. She is the third generation of her family to use bicycling for transportation.

 

Caz Nicklin is Managing Director Cyclechic Ltd in London. After 8 years working in the TV industry, London based, Caz Nicklin decided a career change was in order. She completed a diploma in Environmental decision-making as a basis for creating a company that would promote and endorse sustainable living. Caz launched Cyclechic.co.uk in March 2008 with the mission to promote cycling as a desirable lifestyle choice and provide women with cycling accessories that would fit in with the rest of their wardrobe. Over the past 2 years Caz has significantly raised the profile of cycling, her endeavours have been featured in magazines such as Vogue and Martha Stewart and National newspapers such as The Times and The Observer. Caz's next expansion project is to launch an American version of the website in spring 2010.

Kit Keller, JD, is Executive Director of the Association of Pedestrian & Bicycle Professionals (APBP), www.apbp.org. Kit is a League-certified cycling instructor, a SRTS National Course instructor, a Bicycle Friendly Community and walking workshop facilitator. As a consultant, she's written transportation, stewardship, and public safety grants for communities, helped to develop bicycle trails and new transit, promoted walkable communities, and facilitated Safe Routes to School programs. Kit earned her undergraduate degree in social work, psychology, and political science from Valparaiso University and a doctor of jurisprudence from Indiana University School of Law – Indianapolis.