Douglas Stewart, President
Barbara Klieforth, Vice President
Paul d’Eustachio, Treasurer

Randall Myers, Secretary
Matthew Bieschke

Kendall Dorman

Jana Lynott
Hunter McCleary

Martin Moulton

Susan Orlins

Elissa Parker

Curtis Runyan

Dana Wolfe

By Laws

Conflict of Interest Statement

WABA's board of directors is elected yearly by the membership at our Annual Meeting.  If you have interest in serving on WABA's Board, please contact the board President, Douglas Stewart, at douglas@waba.org.

Douglas Stewart
President

1000 Friends of Maryland

Douglas Stewart is Director of Development and Communications for 1000 Friends of Maryland.  He moved in 2004 from Atlanta, where he was director of program communications for the pedestrian advocacy organization, PEDS, and served on the board of the Atlanta Bicycle Campaign (ABC).  He is an active volunteer on bicycle and pedestrian issues in Fairfax.  Douglas rides for many of his errands and would like to spur the county’s elected officials, planners and engineers to recognize that bicycling is a 21st-century transportation option.  Contact:: douglass(at)waba.org

 

Barbara Klieforth
Vice president

Environmental Protection Agency

Barbara Klieforth is an environmental scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency. More importantly, she's also manager of their stellar indoor bike parking facility in downtown DC. She has been a life-long cycling commuter, and recreational cyclist.  An active member of WABA, she feels that DC has the potential to be a world-leader in making cycling a safe, convenient and fun transportation option. She lives in Prince George's County, MD, is editor of the College Park Area Bicycle Coalition's newsletter "Pedal Power" and can't wait for the Met Branch Trail to be a reality!  Contact:: BarbaraK(at)waba.org

 

Paul d’Eustachio
Treasurer

Management Consultant

ESP Group

Paul d'Eustachio, an alleged member of the Washington Cycling Lunatic Fringe, is the proud owner of at least 12 bicycles. So that he is able to support his cycling habit and provide a college education for his children he is also Treasurer and Controller of Antares Group Inc. and Acting Controller for New West Technologies, LLC. Both companies are government contractors specializing in engineering and economic analysis of renewable energy generation processes and high efficiency vehicle
transportation solutions. Contact:: pauld(at)waba.org

 

Randall Myers

Senior Budget Analyst for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Government of the District of Columbia

Coming to the District from Philadelphia with a lot of time on his hands about 9 years ago, Randall brought a consistent adoration and respect for biking since riding his "Big Wheel" into the ground. Coming to the District to earn a Masters of Public Administration from American University, he made futile attempts to purchase and ride less-than-stellar department store bikes. After a few years of working as a budget analyst in Montgomery County and the District, he heard about the 2002 Tour de Friends ride from coworkers who happened to be members of Brother to Brother Sister to Sister United (BBSSU), a cycling team that works to educate and prevent the spread of HIV / AIDS in the District. After cycling with and then later becoming vice-president of BBSSU, he began his slow and continuing ride toward cycling education and advocacy. He has since been asked to be chair of the Pedestrian / Wheel committee of the Children's National Medical Center DC Injury Prevention Coalition: Injury Free Coalition for Kids - DC. Contact:: Randall(at)waba.org

 

Matthew Bieschke

Finance and Strategy Consultant

PB Consult Inc.

Matthew Bieschke is a finance and strategy consultant with PB Consult Inc.  His career has been spent in and around transportation, and has lived in Washington, DC since 1999. He has worked with several local transportation-related clients, including DDOT, WMATA, and the Maryland Transportation Authority.  He has been cycling for 20 years, including a short time as a Category 4 road racer, and is currently a triathlete competing in Sprint and Olympic distance races.  Matt is a strong advocate for promoting accessibility for cyclists and bike safety. Contact:: Matt(at)waba.org

 

Kendall Dorman

Architect

Kendall has been riding bikes for all but about the first 5 years of his life.  He has owned a stingray, a cruiser, a Schwinn Continental, a few mountain bikes, two track bikes, and a plethora of road bikes.  He has lived in DC since 1988 and has participated sporadically in Bike DC with his wife, JT Roy.  He regularly rides on the weekends in unsanctioned, unofficial, so-called races with a group of riders that are typically younger, stronger and faster than him.  But, he also likes to ride to work or to other destinations on roads, trails and/or paths.  Last year he rode to the top of the Col du Tourmalet.  He is a practicing Architect and strives to design buildings that are, as he believes bicycles are, friendlier to the environment.  He plans to do the following: Help promote the goals of WABA,  be a diplomat of goodwill for WABA and continue to uphold the bicycle as a legitimate and noble form of transportation. Contact:: Kendall(at)waba.org

 

Jana Lynott

AICP, Strategic Policy Advisor

AARP

Jana Lynott, AICP, has more than 10 years local and state governmental experience as a transportation and land use planner and consultant. Jana recently joined AARP as a Strategic Policy Advisor in the areas of transportation and livable communities. Prior to this she was Director of Transportation Planning for the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission and project manager of the region’s long-range transportation plan update—TransAction 2030.  In 2000, as a planner for Loudoun County responsible for the transportation element of the county’s comprehensive plan, she worked with WABA volunteers to modernize the County’s policies to support bicycling. She serves on the Board of Directors Executive and Legislative Committees for the Virginia Chapter of the American Planning Association. She and her son, who she pulls in a trailer, are committed bicycle commuters and recreational cyclists.

Contact:: Jana(at)waba.org

 

Hunter McCleary

Education Week

Hunter McCleary moved to the DC area in the mid-90s to follow a job in journalism but has since switched to managing computer systems while still working in publishing.  He lives in Vienna and bikes to work in Bethesda, tallying 4,000 bike-commute miles per year. Bike commuting, he believes, is one antidote to obesity, congestion and global warming. In 2005 he helped found Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling (FABB), which seeks to make bicycling an integrated part of transportation in Fairfax County. He looks forward to the day when the inclusion of bike lanes is a routine consideration when building any road.  He also has bike toured a number of states and Canadian provinces and would like to one day bike across Canada. Contact:: Hunter(at)waba.org

 

MARTIN MOULToN

Designer

Roll Call

Martin Moulton is a commuter cyclist, but has done some bike touring with a little single track in South Africa, Australia, Tasmania, Costa Rica as well as the US in his native California, New Hampshire and outside of the Washington DC area. Martin is a graduate of Dartmouth College who currently works as a print/web designer for Roll Call Newspaper.  Martin is also active with several community associations in Washington's Shaw neighborhood and tutors students at a local elementary school.  In 2007, he was featured on the cover of the Washington Post for recovering one of my stolen Cannondale mountain bikes.  Martin has never driven a car and never had an interest or need to have a license to drive a motor vehicle.  Contact:: Martin(at)waba.org.

 

SUSAN ORLINs

Editor

Moment Magazine

After graduating from University of Pennsylvania in 1967, where she majored in math and minored in art, Susan moved to DC, and promptly bought a used J. C. Higgins (old Sears model) bicycle.  Then, as now, she got to most of the places she had to go on my bicycle.  After moving to Vermont, Susan returned to DC in 1976 and became a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch (and later at Morgan Stanley in New York City). Currently Susan is the Associate Editor for Moment Magazine.  Susan enjoys hosting fundraising events and travel quite a bit, including a Backroads bicycle trip every summer.  In the past 7 months, she has biked in Ireland, Budapest, as well as on her very own Flying Pigeon in China. Susan(at)waba. org

 

Elissa Parker

Vice President for Research and Policy

The Environmental Law Institute

Elissa A. Parker has been an environmental lawyer for nearly 37 years.   She is currently the Vice President for Research and Policy at the Environmental Law Institute where she supervises local, U.S., and international programs dealing with protection of water, climate change, sustainable use of land, biodiversity, environmental justice, greenbuildings, wetlands, constitutional law, nanotechnology, and other challenges to the environment and public health.  She has served for years on the boards of a number of other non-profit organizations, including the Institute for Conservation Leadership.  She is a committed bicycle commuter who has never owned a car and wants to shift more commuting and short car trips in the DC area to bike trips to save energy, reduce pollution, and promote health.   

 

Curtis Runyan

Senior Editor

The Nature Conservancy

Curtis Runyan commutes by bike daily to his job as a senior editor at Nature Conservancy magazine. Since first moving to the nation’s capital in 1995, he has written and edited for a number of environment and development organizations, including World Watch magazine, the World Resources Institute, and the World Bank.  To cope with separation anxiety brought on by living so far away from the Rocky Mountains, he has spent much of his free time in the last decade outside exploring DC and its environs by bike and on foot. In the process, he has become passionate about the benefits of living in an increasingly bike-friendly city like the District.  For a number of years Curtis volunteered as the editor and designer for WABA’s membership newsletter, Ride On! He hopes to continue to help WABA with its work to make the DC metro area a better place to live.  Contact:: Curtis(at)waba.org.

 

Dana Wolfe

Conservation Advocate

The Ocean Conservancy


Dana Wolfe is a conservation advocate for The Ocean Conservancy in Washington, DC. She’s lived and worked in DC for 12 years, spending most of that time working in the environmental community as a government affairs professional. A daily bike commuter, she’s learned first-hand the hazards faced by those who pursue cycling as a daily transportation alternative, whether for fitness or environmental purposes, or just for pure enjoyment. Dana’s been a cycling enthusiast since taking up mountain biking during college, and continues to train and race regularly. She enjoyed a two-year hiatus from the legislative affairs grind working as a D.C. bike messenger, which eventually led her to become a regular volunteer for WABA.Contact::Dana(at)waba.org