The Better Bike Share Partnership is a collaboration funded by The JPB Foundation to build equitable and replicable bike share systems. The partners include The City of Philadelphia, the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) and the PeopleForBikes Foundation.
Our team is made up of a dynamic crew with expertise in community building, nonprofit management, transportation and policy, and much more. Get to know us!
Waffiyyah (she/hers) is a nationally recognized expert in the realm of transportation equity with a background in nonprofit leadership and youth development. She has presented at several national conferences and provided technical assistance to numerous bike share and micromobility systems working to incorporate equity within their work. As the Education Program Manager for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, she coordinated its Safe Routes to School program, a national initiative promoting safety and physical activity in school-age children through walking and biking.
In her former role as the Better Bike Share Partnership Program Manager for the City of Philadelphia, Waffiyyah worked to address barriers to the use of Indego bike share for individuals with low income and BIPOC communities, while increasing equitable access in micromobility systems worldwide. In her new role as Indego Program Manager, Waffiyyah is responsible for oversight, planning, and management of the City of Philadelphia’s bike share program and the relationship between the city and Bicycle Transit Systems, Indego’s contracted operator.
Waffiyyah currently serves as a NABSA board member.
Email: Waffiyyah.Murray@phila.gov
Tangier (she/hers) is a self-described environmental justice enthusiast. After graduating from the University of Colorado Denver with a Master’s Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, she has spent the last 12 years working on the ground, serving lower-income and communities of color in Denver. Notably, she’s helped achieve equity in the built environment by creating safer access to the South Platte River Trail, and by managing a resident-led brownfield to park project.
As the senior manager of partnerships and programs at BBSP and PeopleForBikes, Tangier helps manage PeopleForBikes’ participation in the Better Bike Share Partnership. She brings with her more than a decade of project management and community engagement experience, plus extensive knowledge of non-profits and local government. She is honored to be supporting communities across the nation with their efforts to create equitable bike share and micro-mobility systems. What she loves most about her work is the opportunity to engage with diverse groups of people in their neighborhoods, especially while riding bikes.
In her free time, you’ll find Tangier cruising her Denver neighborhood alongside her husband and two toddlers, as well as riding with her parents in Northern Colorado every chance she gets.
Email: Tangier@peopleforbikes.org
Cary (she/hers) manages NACTO’s biking and shared micromobility work. Her background is in “plangineering” with a dual master’s degree from Georgia Tech in City Planning and Transportation Engineering. Prior to joining NACTO, Cary was the Chief Bicycle Officer at the City of Atlanta and leverages this on-the-ground experience to organize the annual BBSP roundtable. This annual series creates space for experts managing shared micromobility programs to share best practices and challenges in building, maintaining, and operating equitable programs.
Cary lives with her wife in Atlanta and loves traveling and exploring cities by bike.
Email: Cary@nacto.org
Aminah (she/hers) is an architect, urbanist, and writer who created Future Planners in order to include and empower children in the process of improving our cities. She helps schools, public and private institutions, NGOs, and governments in the US, Europe, and Asia recognize the benefit of embracing the unique perspective and experience of children in the city design process, including consultation on the “Designing Streets for Kids” guide.
As the senior program manager of capacity building at NACTO, Aminah steers the efforts for the Transportation Justice Fellowship, leading the strategy for this curricular opportunity that trains city transportation professionals to advance sustainable and just design and policy in a more representative mobility field.
A passionate advocate for walkable and bike-friendly cities, she puts her feet where her views are every day of the week. She lives with her husband and their young daughter.
Email: Aminah@nacto.org
Meghan (she/hers) is the transportation engagement coordinator for the City of Philadelphia’s Managing Director’s Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability. In this role, she manages Indego bike share’s community outreach initiatives, and programming. She’s also piloting the city’s first Vision Zero Community Ambassadors program to raise awareness about traffic and pedestrian safety initiatives.
Prior to joining the City of Philadelphia, Meghan was the project implementation manager at MIT’s Community Innovators Lab, managing research projects on economic justice strategies for low-income BIPOC communities in the Bronx and Brooklyn, New York.
Meghan is passionate about the intersections of transportation, urban planning, and racial justice, and in her free time, she is typically cycling or watering plants.
Email: Meghan.Alvarez@phila.gov
Kiran (she/hers) is in charge of all communications for the Better Bike Share Partnership, from writing stories to updating events to crafting tweets.
After graduating from New York University with a master’s in Cultural Reporting and Criticism, Kiran worked as a writer and editor at a handful of lifestyle websites and outdoor magazines. She made the jump to the nonprofit sector in order to focus her writing on inclusion, equity and diversity work. At BBSP, her storytelling focuses on elevating marginalized voices, uncovering new and exciting programs, and highlighting the things we could be doing better as an industry.
Email: Kiran@peopleforbikes.org
