Why are you interested in being a NABSA Board Member?

I’ve spent the past 15+ years aligning cycling with community — most recently as Director of Compliance & Technical Writing at CycloChrome, a Montréal-based social enterprise responsible for the assembly and maintenenance of the BIXI fleet. With NABSA coming to Montréal this October, I saw a timely opportunity to help the association connect best-in-class operations with concrete social impacts, and will be given a presentation with co-presenters at this year’s conference. I have been pleased with my engagement with NABSA so far and am curious as to what board participation looks like!

My team works at the intersection of public systems and community benefit—running large-scale fleet maintenance, training new bike mechanics while providing them education opportunities, and piloting cargo-bike mobile workshops that bring our services to businesses and communities throughout the city. Serving on the Board would let me contribute a practitioner’s perspective on equity, governance, and measurable results, while championing collaborations between cities, operators, and social enterprises. I am curious about the ways other cities have addressed these subjects, and view the NABSA board as an opportunity to learn as well as to contribute.

What skills and experience would make you a good NABSA Board Member?

Operational credibility: CycloChrome has supported BIXI at industrial scale for the past 15 years (production floor, wheels, racking), including lessons from Montréal’s first winter BIXI season.

Governance & compliance: I build systems that stick—information architecture, naming/metadata standards, policy rollouts, security practices, and automation. I’m procedure-minded and transparent in my approach. I have served on many boards in the past, and have also worked as a professional chairperson for orgs handling multi-million dollar budgets and have been asked to teach workshops on board governance and parliamentary procedure.

Education: I co-created training that moves people from entry-level to skilled roles (the first trade degree in bicycle mechanics in Canada) in the hopes of standardizing and legitimizing the profession which I hold dearly.

Funding & partnerships: I prospect, structure, and report on grants/partnerships (municipal, Caisse/Desjardins, PME-MTL, corporate). I’m used to turning ideas into budgets, milestones, KPIs, and board-ready dashboards.

Communication & technical writing: I produce bilingual annual reports, policy docs, and one-pagers that win buy-in from city staff, operators, and community orgs—clear, concise, and data-driven.

On a personal note, I split my time between Montreal and Vermont, and therefore have a certain perspective on both Canada and the US.