About BikeAthens

BikeAthens Board 2007-2008
(effective June 5, 2007)

Officers

Paul Quick
Co-Chair
(706) 543-6507
Email the BikeAthens Chair or pauquick (at) uga.edu
Paul has been involved with BikeAthens since 1995 and has previously served as Chair. He is a Licensed Cycling Instructor (LCI) through the League of American Bicyclists (LAB) and has taught Road I classes. He is also a member of the SPLOST 2005 Citizens Oversight Committee and a member of Athens First United Methodist Church. Since earning an MA and Ph.D. in English from UGA (culminating with an ecological literary study of the novels of Cormac McCarthy), Paul has worked at UGA's Center for Teaching and Learning where he is currently Director of TA Programs. He lives in Homewood with his wife and son. He rides to work almost every day, rides with his son to Bishop Park, and loves long rides in the country on his beloved Klein roadbike.
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Mark Dodson
Co-Chair
706-540-9913
Email the Bike Athens Co-Chair
Mark has been a BikeAthens volunteer since moving to Athens in 2000, and was BikeAthens Treasurer in 2003 and 2004 and Chair in 2005. He is the manager of Research Media at the University of Georgia and commutes by bike from his home in Beechwood. Previously, he lived in the Atlanta area for 12 years where he worked with Atlanta Bicycle Campaign, Bicycle Ride Across Georgia (BRAG) and was a Southern Bicycle League (SBL) board member. He is currently editor of SBL's monthly FreeWheelin' magazine.

Amy Johnson
Secretary
Email the BikeAthens Secretary or amyjohnson47 (at) yahoo.com
Amy moved to Athens 6 years ago originally to complete her Master's Degree in Geography. She made Athens her home due to its size and accessibility. Formerly an environmental consultant, she now teaches
middle school Science locally. She currently sits on the Steering Committee in charge of creating the Community Agenda for Athens' 10-year Comprehensive Land Use Plan.

Peter Norris
Treasurer
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Peter has been a member of the board for 7 years and has been treasurer and interim chair. He currently leads the Bicycle Recycling Programs and helps with the website and print/press graphics. Peter is a Manager of Information Technology for the College of Education at UGA. He is also persuing a Master's degree in Environmental Economics. Peter has also volunteered for BreastFest, Human Rights Festival, AthFest and is a member of the Red Cross Disaster Action Team.

At Large

Dorothy O'Niell
Dorothy O'Niell has been a member of the BikeAthens board since its formation in 1999 out of the former Athens-Clarke County Safe Cycling Association. She has been a member of the ACC Rails-to-Trails committee since its inception in 2001, a group which seeks to establish a bicycle/pedestrian pathway along the 11-mile historic Georgia Railroad corridor between downtown Athens and Winterville. She has recently joined the Oconee Rivers Greenway Commission to work on other trail and greenway projects in Athens-Clarke County.

Daniel Promislow
706-559-7373
promislow (at) uga.edu
Daniel has been a member of BikeAthens since 2001. A professor of Genetics at UGA, Daniel has worked to bring Athens and UGA leaders together to discuss campus bicycle issues. Daniel rides to work, rain or shine, and tries to inspire UGA students to leave their cars at home too.

John Kissane
John moved to Athens from Iowa in 1987 to study historic preservation in the masters program at UGA. Married with two children at Clarke Middle School, he currently Coordinator for Safe Routes Athens and does occasional freelance writing and historic preservation consulting. He also plans to write a history of Athens neighborhoods. He got started cycling by riding RAGBRAI several times in the mid 1970s.

Brent Buice
brent.buice (at) gmail.com
Brent served as Secretary in 2003, as Vice President during 2004 and 2005 and as President in 2006-'07. Brent works full-time at UGA, where he earned a BA (Anthropology) and an MA (Nonprofit Organizations). He lives downtown and relies on his feet to commute to work. Brent also serves on the Athens-Clarke County Transit Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the mayor and commission for improving transit services.

Dean Hardy
rdhardy (at) uga.edu
Dean has been an alternative transportation advocate and resident of Athens since 2000.  He joined BikeAthens Board in 2006 to become more actively involved with the organization.  He's also a volunteer with other local non-profits groups including Common Ground Athens and Upper Oconee Watershed Network.  As an incoming graduate student to the Institute of Ecology, he will be working with local land trust organizations to assist with determining areas of primary interest for conservation.

Administrator

Andrew Hunt
admin(at)bikeathens.com
Andrew has served as the BikeAthens Administrator since January 2008.
After spending a summer here in 2002, he returned to Athens in 2003 and
has stayed here since.  Originally from Maryland, he coordinated a
statewide student campaign for transit with the Sierra Student Coalition
and the Transit Riders League of Metropolitan Baltimore.  Andrew
received a M.A. in Nonprofit Organizations from UGA and fosters the
development of grassroots organizations as the Financial Coordinator at
Common Ground Athens.

Ex Officio

John Devine
John is a senior planner at the NE GA Regional Development Center.

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