Why are you interested in being a NABSA Board Member?

I have spent my career working to make cities safer, more sustainable, more equitable, and easier to get around without a car. I see shared micromobility as an vitally important part of that work.

After more than two decades in public-sector and nonprofit transportation leadership, including leading transportation departments in Oakland and New York City and most recently serving as Executive Director of NACTO, I’m excited to bring that experience into my new role at Revolution BTS and to NABSA. I’ve seen firsthand how much cities benefit when public agencies, operators, advocates, and other partners understand one another’s needs and work toward shared goals.

NABSA is uniquely positioned to bring those perspectives together. I’d be excited to help strengthen that community, advance shared micromobility as an essential part of the transportation system, and help more cities and communities realize its benefits.

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

I bring more than 25 years of transportation leadership from several different vantage points: city government, national nonprofit leadership, and now the private sector. As Director of the Oakland Department of Transportation and, earlier, a senior transportation leader in New York City, I led work to make streets safer, expand bicycling and sustainable transportation, and give people more choices for getting around. Most recently, as Executive Director of NACTO, I led a network of more than 100 cities and transit agencies.

At NACTO, I placed a particular emphasis on strengthening the member community and creating more opportunities for practitioners to learn directly from one another. I championed a return to smaller, in-person roundtables and peer gatherings, including NACTO’s 2026 shared micromobility roundtable in Tucson, which brought together practitioners from 20 cities to tackle common challenges, learn from local experience, and build relationships with one another. That experience reinforced something I’ve seen throughout my career: strong networks are built not just by sharing best practices, but by creating trusted spaces where people can candidly work through difficult problems together.

In my new role at Revolution BTS, I’ll be focused on building strong partnerships between cities and bikeshare operators. I think I can bring a useful bridge-building perspective to the NABSA Board: an understanding of how public agencies operate, experience leading and strengthening a national membership organization, and now a private-sector perspective on what it takes to build sustainable and successful bikeshare systems while keeping riders and communities at the center.

Having recently served as an Executive Director reporting to a nonprofit board, I also understand what effective board service looks like from the staff side of the table. I value governance that provides strategic direction and accountability while trusting and empowering staff to lead the organization’s day-to-day work. I understand the importance of being a thoughtful sounding board, asking good questions, bringing relevant experience and relationships to the table, and giving an Executive Director the space and support to lead.