is one of four speakers.
(Photo: J.Maus/bikePortland)
The Portland Bureau of Transportation’s monthly bike-themed lunchtime speaking series has a particularly intriguing agenda this Thursday.
Four local women who’ve been riding the city for quite some time will be sharing stories about Portland’s biking history. The panel includes Anndy Wiselogle (founder, in 1976, of the Bicycle Repair Collective, among other things); Mia Birk, Portland’s first bicycle coordinator and an early principal at pioneering bike-infrastructure firm Alta Planning and Design; Jessica Roberts, an onetime Bicycle Transportation Alliance employee and more recent principal at Alta; and Barb Grover, a onetime Bike Gallery marketer who cofounded cargo-bike specialty shop Splendid Cycles.
Here’s the official description from the PBOT Bicycle Lunch and Learn page:
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Before Portland talked about being a world-class city for bicycles; before we were concerned about the “interested but concerned”; before there were Women Bike, Women on Wheels or CycloFemme, there were women working to make our city better for biking.
“Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives” is the theme for National Women’s History Month 2015. The Bicycle Lunch and Learn is honored to have four women who pioneered in bike activism, industry, advocacy and policy tell their stories.
The event starts almost immediately at noon Thursday on the second-floor Lovejoy Room of Portland City Hall, 1221 SW 4th Ave. We’re planning to be there. Maybe you’ll want to be too.