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Micheál Podgers
Micheál Podgers is Midwest Policy Lead at Climate Cabinet. He’s an urban planner and transit expert. He lives in Chicago.
May 28, 2025
Robin Graven-Milne
Robin Graven-Milne runs Bike Plant, a bicycle repair shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, and is working on a memoir about getting into the bike business.
May 27, 2025
Andy Luu
Andy Luu is a senior engineering and sociology student at San Jose State University and a longtime Bay Area transit rider. He strives to understand and educate about the social benefits that public transit holds.
May 20, 2025
Ben Swedberg
Ben Swedberg is a senior research assistant at Brookings Metro, where his research focuses on transportation and the built environment.
April 30, 2025
Edward D’Amato
Edward D’Amato is an alternative transportation advocate and Co-Chair of the Lakeshore Rail Alliance. He also co-authored the passenger rail reform proposal: Creating a Robust American Passenger Rail System.
April 29, 2025
Dan Albert
Dan Albert is the author of Are We There Yet?: The American Automobile, Past, Present And Driverless and a freelance writer based in Marblehead, Massachusetts. His mobility writing has appeared in Bloomberg Citylab, n+1, The Baffler, and Fast Company, among others. He moonlights as a driver’s ed instructor in Massachusetts.
April 17, 2025
Joanna Gubman
Joanna Gubman is an advocate and policy strategist with a deep commitment to walkable, sustainable communities. Among other roles, she serves on the Sierra Club San Francisco Group Executive Committee and the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Education Fund Board. Previously, she was the Executive Director of Urban Environmentalists and an Administrative Law Judge at the … Continued
April 10, 2025
Dave Cooke
Dave Cooke conducts research on fuel efficiency technologies and the implications for oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions across the transportation sector.
March 26, 2025
Steven Higashide
Steven Higashide is the director of the Clean Transportation program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. He writes about UCS’s work to reduce climate emissions and air pollution from our transportation system, while improving community health and transportation equity.
March 26, 2025
