WHO we are

Board of Directors

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Nico Fauchier-Magnan, President

Nico works as an energy efficiency engineer with UC Davis. He has been biking since his teenage years in the streets of Paris, and later in San Francisco, where he was also actively engaged with the SF Bicycle Coalition. His vehicle of choice is his Nihola cargo tricycle, which he rides all over Davis, often carrying his delighted 2-year old son in it.

 
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Anthony Palmere, Secretary

Anthony recently retired after a 40-year career in public transportation, including working in Boston, Sacramento, Chicago, and New York before most recently serving as Unitrans General Manager here in Davis. Since moving to Davis in 1993, the Palmere family has relied on cycling as their primary means of transportation. During that time, Anthony has served on city and regional committees related to transportation, including the original Davis Bicycle Advisory Committee. He is a lifelong alternative transportation advocate and teacher.

 
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Sanne Stark Fettinger, Treasurer

Sanne grew up in Denmark, where biking to school is the most natural thing to do. She grew up on bikes and horses. She has worked in Switzerland, where biking to work was the thing to do, and lived on the east coast for 12 years. She is happy to be in Davis since 2004 and biking every day! Sanne started the Scan and Notify program in the Davis school district at Birch Lane Elementary, working with its creator Tim Starback. She continues to enjoy promoting active transportation for all age groups. Happy biking.

 
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Peter Jacobsen

Peter Jacobsen is a professional engineer with a strong interest in the health impacts of transportation policy. His published work ranges from injury prevention to activity promotion. He wrote an article for ITE Journal explaining to traffic engineers why the physiology of young children prevents them from coping with the dangers of traffic and hence we need to adapt residential streets to the needs of children. His influential study, Safety in Numbers, showed that the risk of a motorist hitting a pedestrian or a bicyclist decreases as more people walk or bicycle, and hence the health goals of injury prevention and activity promotion can work together to improve health. A subsequent study showed that this lower risk is likely due to human's limitations in detecting rare objects. His current efforts bring state-of-the-art roadway engineering to improve health by encouraging physical activity and reducing severe injuries.

 
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Kelsey Fortune

Kelsey is an energy and transportation economist. Since moving to Davis from her native Wisconsin, she has relied solely on various bicycles and public transit to get around. Naively, this began with a cute yellow cruiser, not the most practical. A bright green single speed followed until it was stolen: a Davis rite of passage. Currently, she rocks a purple mountain bike that is ten years her elder! She is passionate about community, sustainability, and resilience and hopes to be the change she wants to see in the world.

 
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Susan Handy

Dr. Susan Handy is a Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the Director of the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California, Davis. Her current research focuses on bicycling as a mode of transportation and on strategies for reducing automobile dependence. She has lived in Davis with her family for 16 years and is happy to be able to commute by bicycle every day. Her interest in bicycling dates back to her childhood in another California platinum-level bicycle-friendly community that doesn’t compare to Davis.

Advisory Board

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Diane Swann

Diane moved to Davis in 1974 and adopted cycling as her primary mode of transportation. She has commuted regularly to her work in Davis, Woodland and Sacramento. She and her husband, John, own an electric bicycle business and co-founded the Bak2Sac program. She wants to improve bicycle infrastructure, but at the same time create a cycling culture such that people ride regardless of infrastructure inadequacies. She and John were awarded the 2017 California Bicycle Coalition’s Bicycle Dreamer Award for advancing the dream that all Californians be able to ride bicycles safely and conveniently wherever they wish to go.

 
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Darell Dickey

Darell transports himself and his gear by bike for all of his local work, fun, social, errand, shopping dining and beer needs. He has been on the city’s Bicycle Advisory Commission, on the board of the Davis Bike Club and is a police volunteer working to improve protections and convenience for people on bikes. He has created and assisted in several bicycle theft-prevention programs and is focussed on improving the infrastructure around town to invite more non-motorized transportation.

His study of “livable” cities and infrastructure from around the world has shown him that calm and comfortable people-optimized streets result in a better place to live.