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Washington Area
Bicyclist Association
2599 Ontario Rd. NW
Washington, DC 20009

2012 Board of Directors

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, Mark Blacknell, at mark (at) waba.org.

 

Mark Blacknell

President

Mark Blacknell has been a DC area resident and cyclist since moving to Arlington in 1997. Looking for options beyond sitting on the Roosevelt Bridge during rush hour, he soon bought a bike to ride to Foggy Bottom. Since then, he's made the slow and steady progression over the years to cycling as his primary means of transportation (ending up with a house full of bikes in the process). Deciding to move beyond the personal evangelization of cycling and get more involved in advocating for improved infrastructure and conditions, he joined the Arlington Bicycle Advisory Committee (ABAC). As ABAC chair, he has worked to encourage Arlington County to promote a broad public agenda of facilitating safe cycling for everyone in Arlington. While personally a vehicular cyclist, he's a supporter of bike facilities that accommodate all kinds of riders. Off the bike, he's a DC lawyer whose practice focuses primarily on media and communications clients. When not representing clients, he pursues his interest in travel and photography. In a happy combination of everything, he regularly shoots pro cycling races for a variety of outlets.

Contact: mark (at) waba.org

Martin Moulton

Vice President

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

 

Paul d’Eustachio

Treasurer

Management Consultant
NC4 Inc.

Paul d'Eustachio, Treasurer and past President, commutes year-round from home in Maryland to work in Virginia and is a weekend recreational rider. His commuting career began more than 35 years ago when he found that the city bus system shut down before he got off from the evening shift. He understands that cycling is a critical part of an efficient and cost effective urban transportation system, and is dedicated to bringing that understanding to a wide audience. He has worked for a variety of non-profit and for profit organizations in his career as an accountant and business manager, and currently directs public sector finance, administration and contract operations for NC4 Inc., a California based company providing highly secure communication, collaboration, and situational awareness services to government and private industry.

Contact: Pauld(at)waba.org

 

Randall Myers

Secretary

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.

 

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.

 

Eric Fingerhut

Attorney

Eric Fingerhut leads his law firm's trademark practice by day but when he is not billing hours he is riding his bicycle. In addition to weekly road and mountain bike rides, Eric is a year-round commuter. Merging his passion and profession, last year Eric founded the International Cycling Law Association (ICLA), a non-profit providing low cost and free legal education to the bicycle industry, pro bono referrals for non-profits and startups and general business advice. Eric also is a fan of electric bicycles and sees them as an exciting opportunity for the industry to sell them as environmentally friendly alternatives to cars and motorcycles for short distance trips. He is thrilled to be part of WABA and looks forward to using his bicycle industry relationships to support WABA and its mission.

 

Peter Gray

Peter Gray is a commuter cyclist using the Metropolitian Branch Trail alignment that WABA championed as he travels from Silver Spring to downtown DC. He has done bike touring in the Sierra mountains in eastern California, on Skyline Drive in Virginia, and in the back roads of Maryland. The last several years, asides from volunteering at various WABA events, he has been active with the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail, serving as Board Chair for four years. 20+ years ago when he moved to DC from the Midwest, he had stopped biking, but picked it up again in earnest after participating in Bike DC. In his spare time, he works for the US Department of Justice Antitrust Division, trying to keep prices down for consumers of telecommunications products. Every so often he gets his wife Nancy and his two post-high school kids to ride bikes with him. He is excited at the prospect of joining the WABA board to further advocacy for bicycling in Montgomery County and elsewhere in the DC metro area.

Contact: Peter(at)waba.org

Barbara Klieforth

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! 

 

Emily Littleton

Editor
National Public Radio

Emily Littleton has spent her career focused on the media, with several years at a public interest group focused on children's television and telecommunications policymaking, and over a decade in communications and marketing roles at NPR. Out of the office, she's usually in the saddle getting her spin on with her husband, who has gotten her into self-supported, long-distance touring. She's ridden cross-country and for several years enjoyed a daily 28-mile roundtrip bike commute. She's an avid supporter of cyclists' rights and responsibilities – and thrilled to be part of the WABA community and its important work.

 

Phil Lyon

Policy Scholar
Wilson Center

Philip Lyon is a public policy scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. and has been an active WABA volunteer since 2007. He began bike commuting in graduate school and quickly discovered that travelling to work and back could be the best part of the day. Phil is also a recreational cyclist who takes at least one major bike trip per year in the Pacific Northwest and can often be found on the roads and trails around DC. As a DC native who used to hike along the old B&O railroad tracks before they became the Capital Crescent Trail, Phil has seen how bikes and forward thinking have improved life in DC. Having spent many years working and studying in Europe, Phil is also committed to smart growth, urban living, and walkable communities. He is a devoted resident of Capital Hill. "Dr. Phil," as he is sometimes known, earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Maryland and holds an M.A. in international relations from Johns Hopkins University (SAIS).

Contact: Phil(at)waba.org

 

Jim Titus

Jim Titus rides relatively slowly along the roads of Prince George's County, often pulling a trailer with his daughter Kimmy. Although he also likes trails, when he enters a sidepath his daughter often shouts "Daddy get back on the road". Professionally, most of Jim's career has been spent identifying ways for coastal communities to prepare for the consequences of rising sea level. Jim also represents Prince George's County on the state of Maryland's Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee. He was originally appointed to that position to ensure that the Committee had an advocate for inline skaters: "If you think drivers are unfriendly to cyclists, try taking a lane on skates."

 

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.

 

Bruce Wright

Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling

Bruce has been a daily bike commuter since moving to Reston in 1979. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey doing Geographic Information Systems research, including helping to develop the digital National Atlas of the United States. In 1999 he left the USGS to bike across the U.S. from San Diego to St. Augustine with an Adventure Cycling group.  He worked for Fairfax County Supervisor Cathy Hudgins for several years handling bicycle and pedestrian issues and developing and maintaining web content. Most recently he sold and repaired bikes@vienna. He helped form Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling in 2005 and is the current chairman. He was chairman of the Fairfax County Trails and Sidewalks Committee for several years and serves on the Tysons Land Use Task Force. Bruce and his wife Kerie Hitt take regular bike vacations around the U.S.

Contact: brucew(at)waba.org