Archives: Profiles
Billy Cooney
Billy Cooney is an urban planner and writer who explores the practical and philosophical dimensions of urban planning. You can read more from him on his blog, Flâneurbanist.
August 22, 2025
Chris Bruntlett
Chris Bruntlett is International Relations Manager at the Dutch Cycling Embassy, a public-private partnership that represents the best knowledge, experience, and experts from the Netherlands. Chris uses his knowledge and passion to share lessons for global cities wishing to follow their footsteps and become better places to live, work and cycle.
August 22, 2025
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
