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Sasha Bonkowsky
Sasha Bonkowsky is a communications specialist for Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and writes about political science and science-fiction books in her spare time. She lives in Manhattan.
August 20, 2025
Julia Lichtblau
Julia Lichtblau turned into a cycling activist after seeing cars driving on the Schermerhorn Street bike lane. Formerly a journalist at BusinessWeek and Dow Jones, she writes fiction, criticism and essays in Brooklyn.
August 19, 2025
Felix Mariano
Felix currently serves as the producer and host of Frantic TV, a YouTube network featuring multiple shows centered around personal electric vehicles.
August 18, 2025
James Crugnale
James Crugnale is a freelance environmental writer who enjoys reporting on nature, birds, science and cities.
August 6, 2025
Yoshi Omi-Jarrett
Yoshi Omi-Jarrett is a graduate student studying Urban Planning at NYU. Originally from the Upper West Side, he attended Trinity College in Connecticut where he played baseball and majored in Sociology. He is a proud member of the Streetsblog Summer Specialist class of 2025.
July 31, 2025
Emmett Hopkins
Emmett Hopkins is the Transportation Policy Manager at the Climate & Community Institute, where he works with members and partners to advance a new vision for mobility that centers justice across the transportation supply chain. Emmett enjoys growing food and cultivating relationships, riding bikes and buses, and reimagining our communities to better serve all the … Continued
July 22, 2025
Scott Goldstein
Scott Goldstein is the Rails to Trails Conservancy’s senior director of government relations and the former deputy assistant secretary for transportation policy at U.S. Department of Transportation, where he has played a direct role in shaping the implementation of federal grants across modes of transportation.
July 22, 2025
Lionel Randolph
Lionel Randolph is President of ATU-Local 1436, Harrisburg and a transit operator in Harrisburg.
July 21, 2025
Aditya Srinivasan
Aditya Srinivasan is a PhD Candidate in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Working at the intersection of Sociology and Public Policy, Aditya examines the discursive foundations that undergird policy planning, analysis, and implementation. He analyzes the ways in which public policy is transmitted as a narrative, and the ways … Continued
July 18, 2025
Eric Sakalowsky
Eric Sakalowsky has been a passionate cyclist and cycling industry professional for more than 25 years who currently lives in Southern California after growing up in New England, New York, and the Philadelphia area. He believes in the power of cycling as a sport but also as a pretty simple, easy-to-deploy, and invigorating change agent that can address … Continued
July 9, 2025
