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Covering the movement to end car dependency and improve biking, walking and transit in America.

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Goodbye, James Dean: Young Men Reject America’s Car Obsession

Anne Lutz Fernandez is a former corporate executive with experience in management and marketing of consumer brands such as Weight Watchers frozen foods and Bufferin pain relievers. She also spent a decade as an investment banker in New York and London where her work included marketing the firm&#8217;s services to multinational corporations and advising clients on strategic mergers and acquisitions. She left her position as Director at Credit Suisse to become a writer and teacher. She currently teaches English and lives in Connecticut with her husband, who is also a teacher. She co-authored her first book, Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and its Effect on our Lives, with her sister, anthropologist Catherine Lutz.

Anne Lutz Fernandez

Car Dependence

High Anxiety: Good Parents and Bad Parents on the Road

Tanya became Streetsblog&#8217;s Capitol Hill editor in September 2010 after covering Congress for Pacifica Radios Washington bureau and for public radio stations around the country. She lives car-free in a transit-oriented and bike-friendly neighborhood of Washington, DC.

Tanya Snyder

Washington Post: Have We Lost Our Passion for the Automobile?

Angie is a Cleveland-based writer with a background in planning and newspaper reporting. She has been writing about cities for Streetsblog for six years.

Angie Schmitt

U.S. PIRG Report: Young Americans Dump Cars for Bikes, Buses

Young people