Jessica Mink

MassPaths
Webmistress

• experience bicycle issues first hand on a year-round bicycle commute of almost 20 miles a day (12 of them on bikepaths) from the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston (where the hills are) to my job as an astronomical software developer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• manage the MassPaths web site,
• serve on the Boston Bikes Advisory Board and Boston's Bike Network Advisory Committee
• manage the BayStateCycling mailing list,
• cofounded RozzieBikes to improve bicycling conditions and recruit more cyclists in the Boston neighborhood of Roslindale, where I have lived for 25 years.
• work on bikepaths as a member of the Neponset River Greenway Council, the Emerald Necklace Greenway project, and Mass. Green Routes, which aims to tie together all of our bike paths
• serve on the board of the Boston Natural Areas Network (formerly the Boston Natural Areas Fund), which sponsors the Neponset River Greenway Council as well as the East Boston Greenway Council, which is developing a bikepath, too,
• still dream of connecting bikeways throughout Massachusetts
• plan those bikeway connections by working on the Massachusetts portion of the East Coast Greenway since 1991.
• serve as vice-chair of the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition Metro Boston Chapter

I have

• received the Boston Bikes 2011 Lifetime Advocate Award,
  the MassBike 2000 award for "Lifetime Commitment to the Bicycling Community in Massachusetts",
  the Charles River Wheelmen 1991 Volunteer Award
• been president of the Boston Area Bicycle Coalition three times, and was a board member for all all but the first three years of its existence,
• been the first president of the Bicycle Coalition of Massachusetts, which grew out of the BABC and is now the Massachusetts Bicycle Coalition,
• served on the boards of those organizations for 15 years from 1980 to 1995 (and again from 2004-2006),
• served on the several versions of the Boston Bicycle Advisory Committee.
• planned bike routes with the City of Boston,
• advocated bikes on trails as chair of the Statewide Trails Advisory Board for three years during the 1980's,
• worked on bikepaths as an advocate for the extension of the Charles River Bikepath and the construction of the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway,
• co-coordinated Boston Bike Days in 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989.
• worked on, documented, publicized, and sometimes run Bike Weeks from 1980 through 2011,
• worked on Bikes on the T and other intermodal issues for almost 20 years.