Nick Armstrong, City of Victoria
Molly Barkowsky, TransLink
Molly is the Regional Coordinator for Children’s Active Transportation at TransLink, where she works with partners across sectors and levels of government to advance child-friendly mobility and active transportation. She partners with local governments, schools, and community organizations to build the policy, funding, and program supports that make active and sustainable travel easier and more accessible for children and families. Her work involves initiatives such as the TravelSmart4Kids Strategy, the School Neighbourhood Activation Playbook, and programs such as the Walking School Bus and Bike Bus.
Mo Bot, City of North Vancouver
Rory Buckman, City of Vancouver
Aman Chandi, Movement
Kelly Clifton, UBC School of Community and Regional Planning
Alastair Craighead, FORT-VI
Jaimy Fischer, University of Victoria
Yuval Fogelson, Your Future City Urbanism
Kathleen Gallagher, District of Saanich
Katia Gauvin, Ministry of Transportation & Transit
Bradley Gerhart, Ministry of Transportation and Transit
Maya Goldstein, HUB Cycling
Maya is HUB Cycling’s first-ever Bike Bus Manager, joining the organization two years ago to build up the Bike Bus program and help schools, parents, and communities start and sustain their own Bike Buses. Motivated to change the empty bike racks at her children’s school, she launched a successful Bike Bus in April 2023 that still runs today. With over a decade of experience in bike education, Maya also founded Kids on Wheels, which introduces young children to the joy of cycling through balance bikes.
Venkatesh Gopal, movmi
Dora Gunn, District of Squamish
Amir Hassanpour, Capital Regional District
Lacey Hirtle, City of New Westminster
Laura Jane, BEST Mobility
Douglas Jones, Canadian Association of Retired Persons (CARP)
Komalpreet Kaur, Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc
Joanne Kautz-Allard, Society for Children and Youth of BC
Joanne has spent her career supporting children and families in a variety of ways including youth mentoring, employment, surviving family violence, community outreach and as a child and youth worker. Most recently at SCY she leads a team in implementing active travel initiatives for children and youth including walking school buses and School and Play Streets.
Aliyah Khan, Capital Bike
Aliya is the Education Manager at Capital Bike, where she oversees cycling education and active transportation programs for children, youth, and adults across the Capital Regional District. Her work includes overseeing school-based cycling education, Bike Bus programs, community and workplace education, instructor training, and the development of new programs and partnerships. Aliya is passionate about reducing barriers to cycling and creating practical, sustainable opportunities for children and families to make active transportation part of their everyday lives.
Ross Kenny, City of Victoria
Sam Khany, City of Vancouver
Ildiko G. Kovacs, Society for Children and Youth of BC
Ildi is the Child Friendly Community Planner at SCY currently leading the province-wide expansion of the Walking School Bus program. In her role at SCY, Ildi has developed, piloted and managed various children's active transportation and child and youth engagement initiatives. With a passion for environmental and social sustainability, Ildi advocates for children's rights to grow up in supportive, healthy and happy environments. Her work with young people integrates participatory planning methods with environmental education and sustainable community development.
Adam Krupper, Ministry of Transportation & Transit
Colleen MacDonald, BCCC / Let's Go Biking
Tommy Leung, CNIB (BC/Yukon division)
Coral Mackay, BC Cycling Coalition
Kara Martin, Eco-Counter
Becca Mayers, TransLink
Grant Ngieng, ISL Engineering & Land Systems
Grant Ngieng, P.Eng., is a Partner and Manager of Municipal Transportation with ISL Engineering. With nearly 20 years of experience, Grant specializes in active transportation, complete streets, and multimodal corridor design. His work has included protected cycling facilities, transit improvements, and complex urban designs that balance the needs of cyclists, pedestrians, transit users, and motorists. Grant served as the Engineer of Record for the East Sixth Avenue project.
Oluwapeumi Ogeroju, Ministry of Transportation & Transit
Troy McKay, District of Saanich
Ashley Parsons, Society for Children and Youth of BC
Ashley (she/they) grew up in the Lower Mainland but now calls Vancouver Island home. She comes into this work with a background in mental health, including a BA in Psychology from the University of Victoria. In recent years they have worked as an educator, a support worker, a childcare provider, and a crisis intervention worker. At SCY, Ashley works as the Vancouver Island Walking School Bus Coordinator where she supports the walking school bus all while encouraging movement in the form of play, building community, and promoting active lifestyles.
Brian Patterson, Urban Systems
Andrew Petter, Arvay Finlay LLP / SFU
Sandra Phillips, Modo
Sandra is CEO of Modo Co-operative and founder of movmi, focused on designing mobility systems that integrate bikeshare, active transportation, carshare, and public transit into one seamless network.
At Modo, she is leading the co-operative’s evolution beyond carsharing into a multimodal platform—connecting shared vehicles with walking, cycling, and transit at the neighbourhood level. Her work centres on how these modes function together in real life, ensuring people can move fluidly between them without defaulting to private car ownership.
Sandra has advised cities and transit agencies globally on integrating bikeshare and shared mobility with public transit systems—from TransLink initiatives like the Shared Mobility Compass Card and RideLink to Transport for London’s regional approach to bikeshare and micromobility integration.
She is also a Director at Large with Connect the Coast, where she advocates for a AAA cycling highway on the Sunshine Coast—advancing safe, connected infrastructure that supports active transportation in smaller and underserved communities.
Her work has been recognized with the Clean50 Award, the BCBusiness Change Maker Award, and the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award.
Andrew Picard, TransLink
Heather Piwowar, BC Cycle Tourism Society
Jason Potter, Bunt & Associates
Sophie Renard, Bunt & Associates
Farinaz Rikhtehgaran, BEST Mobility
Jamie Rose, City of Nanaimo
Ian Roth, Urban Systems
Margie Sanderson, Vision Zero Vancouver
Genevieve Tokgoz, Capital Regional District
Stephanie Williams, City of Victoria
Jake Winn, Vancouver Cycling Without Age Society
Meghan Winters, CHATR Lab - SFU
Ashley Wright, BC Cycling Coalition
Xuedan Xu, Green Communities Canada
Xuedan manages the National Active School Streets Initiative, working alongside project partners and community actors to plan, implement, and monitor the delivery of School Streets across the country. She has been with Green Communities Canada for 4 years, having supported the delivery of various projects, including School Travel Planning, the National School Travel Data Collection Pilot, and annual active transportation encouragement events.
Mike Zipf, City of Vancouver