Why is being a board member of NABSA important to you?

For nearly a decade, I’ve worked on both sides of the table that makes shared micromobility possible — first inside city government in Minneapolis, building programs from the ground up, then at Spin and now at Lyft, helping operators meet cities where they are. That path has left me with a simple conviction: bikeshare and scootershare only work when the public and private sides of this industry trust each other and speak the same language. NABSA is where that trust gets built. Having led policy and government relations work with Lyft for some of the most impactful shared micromobility systems in the US including Boston, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco and Washington DC, I see every day how much cities and operators need a shared standard-bearer — one that gives a diverse mix of providers and governments the tools and network to make shared micromobility succeed everywhere, not just in the markets with the most resources. I want to help NABSA keep playing that role at a moment when our industry needs it most.

What experience or insight do you bring to your position on the board?

I’ve built this work from the inside of a city hall and from the inside of an operator, which I think gives me a fairly rare, full-circle view of what NABSA’s members actually need from each other. At the City of Minneapolis, I led implementation of the city’s e-scooter program and the introduction of dockless and electric bikes into its bikeshare program, and designed the City’s mobility data methodology. At Spin, I helped secure federal micromobility funding under the IIJA, ran data and privacy policy across US markets, and built universal basic mobility pilots that had to work for cities and companies alike. And I’ve already served NABSA directly, on both its Research & Data and Policy Committees, and contributed to its publications including Data Good Practices for Municipalities, Privacy Principles for Mobility Data, and Impacts of State-Level E-Bike and E-Scooter Regulation on Shared Micromobility. Now, having led policy across five major US bikeshare systems with Lyft, plus having supported numerous other systems with Spin, I have a national view of the issues our field is wrestling with right now: state and local legislation, contract standards, funding pressure, data standards, and the case for shared mobility as core infrastructure. I’d bring that view, along with a genuine belief in NABSA’s mission, to the board table.