If you're a cyclist in the Cambridge/Boston area, or if you're interested in urban transportation, join us at the store on August 12th for a panel discussion and audience Q&A about cycling in the city and the power of alternative transportation. Representatives from Bikes not Bombs, City of Cambridge, and Cambridge Bike Safety will be available to answer all your burning questions.
Before the panel kicks off at 7 PM, stop by to mingle while enjoying on some complementary food and drink. We'll also have a chance to win a new bicycle and some Patagonia MTB gear! Enter before the panel with a donation to Bikes not Bombs or to Cambridge Bike Safety. We'll announce the winners after the event ends at 8:45 PM.Â
Montell (AKA Monty) is an individual deeply committed to leaving the world around him better than he found it. Hailing from Accra, Ghana; Monty is a global citizen who takes pleasure in discovering the various cultures and languages that make up the wider world around us. A recent graduate of Northeastern University, Monty comes to Bikes Not Bombs with a background in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics & professional experiences in investment banking and management consulting.
As a Youth Organizer, Monty dabbles in the organization's outreach and resilience-based organizing efforts; managing BNB's partnerships, particularly for our free mobile bike repair program: Chain Reaction; and curriculum development for the civic education branch of our Youth Pathways program.Â
Cara Seiderman is Transportation Program Manager for the City of Cambridge, overseeing the City’s bike share program (Bluebikes) and managing the Bicycle and Pedestrian Mobility Program.
Ms. Seiderman has worked in an advisory capacity for several state and national design and technical guides, and frequently gives presentations and workshops on pedestrian and bicycle facility planning, traffic calming, and livable city design. She holds Masters Degrees in City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelors Degree in environmental policy from Harvard University. Ms. Seiderman was a Fulbright Scholar at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Along with being a volunteer with Cambridge Bike Safety, Chris Cassa is a Lecturer at the MIT Supply Chain Management Program where he directs courses on databases, data science, and machine learning.Â
He actively uses data science in his research, and holds appointments as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Genetics. Dr. Cassa is also a research affiliate of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He holds a S.B. and M.Eng from MIT and a PhD from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics.
