Emmanuelle came to transportation advocacy after noticing that bike lanes and sometimes sidewalks end inexplicably at municipal borders, creating unsafe conditions for vulnerable road users. Her goals are safe, sustainable streets, a cohesive regional mass transit plan, and a comprehensive county cycle network.

Affiliation: Bike North Bergen, President

A lifelong Hudson County resident since the age of 5, Johan became passionate about urban streets and active transportation during a vacation to The Netherlands where his aunt resides. Bike North Bergen launched in September of 2021 and has been steadily growing interest with people in the town who want to see safer streets for all road users. Johan works in the tech industry graduating from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Engineering.

Affiliation: SafeStreetsJC, Trustee

Talya lives in Jersey City with her family and loves all cities. She believes that city streets are shared spaces for people and community. Talya’s particularly excited to bring safety improvements to the West Side and Journal Square Neighborhoods where she spends most of her time. Her dream is that her kids will one day be able to independently walk and ride bikes around the city safely.

Affiliation: Bici UC, President

Matt is the founder of BiciUC and lives in Union City with his family.

Affiliation: Bike JC, Secretary

Ryan is a computer programmer and long-time bike-share user who bought an e-bike during the pandemic and is obsessed with their potential to revolutionize urban transportation.

He has mapped and graphed NJSP crash data, Citi Bike ridership data, and the progress of the Jersey City cycle network—his work can be viewed on this site as well as at neighbor-ryan.org.

He advocates for pedestrian and transit improvements around the county with Hudson County Complete Streets and Bike JC.

Jim, a co-founder of Hudson County Complete Streets, is a long-time resident of Hoboken. He served as president of Fund for a Better Waterfront, whose mission is a continuous, public waterfront park in Hoboken. Jim is a member of American Legion Post 107, building homes for homeless veterans.

With a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Jim built a successful brokerage dealing in used, business jet aircraft.

He is a decorated US Army helicopter gunship pilot with 1,600 hours of combat time in Vietnam.

Affiliation: SafeStreets JC President

Jimmy is a trustee and former president of SafeStreetsJC. He is a campaign co-chair of the Turnpike Trap coalition. He has written numerous op-eds about traffic safety and transit issues, and can often be found riding a bus or a bike with his daughter.

Affiliation: Bike Hoboken, President

Chris is originally from Oakland, California but has lived in Hoboken since 2002. Chris became interested in working toward safer streets and active transportation in 2015 when she started riding bikeshare. She always been an advocate for public transportation and with climate change bearing down on us, we must take bold steps to encourage people to use more sustainable mobility modes. She wants more women and girls on bicycles and safe infrastructure is the way to make that happen. Bike Hoboken does monthly community family rides through town in an effort to build community and demonstrate a new vision for our roads.

Affiliation: Bike JC, President

Ayla is a proud Pittsburgh native turned proud Jersey City resident since 2012. She lives downtown in the Van Vorst Park neighborhood, and is an accountant at a software company in lower Manhattan. Prior to joining the board in 2017, Ayla was a Bike JC volunteer and was also very involved in the launch of CitiBike in Jersey City in 2015. Outside of biking advocacy, Ayla is active in the Jersey City community as a singer in the North River Sing community chorus and as a devoted member of the Van Vorst Park Association. She is also an avid Broadway theatergoer, a sports fanatic, and a travel lover who checks out the biking infrastructure everywhere she goes.

Affiliation: Bike JC, Vice President

Tony has served on the board of Bike JC since 2014 after volunteering for several years; today he is the manager of the Bike JC social media presence, a liaison to the Jersey City government, and a chief marshal for many organized bike rides. A native of Queens, Tony lived in several urban and suburban towns in North Jersey before moving to Downtown Jersey City’s Hamilton Park neighborhood in 1997. He lives on the same block today. After a decade as a newspaper reporter, and stints editing and writing for Manhattan management and marketing firms, Tony is currently a proofreader and copy editor for Prudential Insurance in Newark, where he is also a member of the revived Brick City Bike Collective advocacy and riding group. A longtime explorer of Jersey City and its urban environs by bike and mass transit, Tony also enjoys triathlons, marathons and distance running, and Jersey City’s art, music, dining, and nightlife scene.

Affiliation: Bike JC, Treasurer

Beatriz has been cycling (for transportation!) since she was a kid, in many cities and countries, and is now based in the Jersey City Heights and is excited for the many opportunities to improve the cycling experience in Hudson County, especially the 14th St. Viaduct and Manhattan Ave.