Evan is a Bay Area-based hiker and transportation advocate, and the creator of Hiking by Transit. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he now calls the East Bay home, but can be found on the trail all around the Bay and across Northern California.

For four years, jiahong freelanced full-time as a journalist, primarily covering transportation and civic issues in ancestral Dakota Oyate territory known as the Twin Cities. Nowadays, they are an MSW student at Augsburg University in Minneapolis, studying to be a therapist. Transit is central to their identity, having grown up in the ancestral Yelamu Ohlone homelands known as San Francisco, and they continue to test the limits of public transit today, particularly around outdoors access.

Kimberly Huntress-Inskeep is a Seattle-based freelance writer, editor, and transportation advocate. She is writing The Transit Trekker Manual as a manual to help other nondrivers more easily access the outdoors near and far.

As the Business Network Writer for PeopleForBikes (PFB) she wrote about the economic benefits of bicycling and bicycling infrastructure and has more recently written for PFB on e-bike policy and housing. As a Fellow at the Disability Mobility Initiative (DMI), Kimberly played key roles in producing the Transportation for Everyone Storymap and the groundbreaking Transportation Access for Everyone white paper and DMI’s launch of the Week Without Driving in Washington state and its national expansion.

Lindsay Welbers is a Chicago-based writer, journalist, and transit advocate. She lives on the far Northwest Side with her husband and blue heeler.