Shequaya “Bailey” Bailey

Vice Chair | Board Member Since 2021

Bailey (she/her) is the Director of Operations at grounded. In her spare time, Bailey is the President of the Pittsburgh Major Taylor Cycling Club (PMTCC), MajorForce Youth Mentor, a mentor at African American Achievement Trust Collective Focus (AAATCF)/(BAMSM) at Westinghouse High School, Pittsburgh Youth Leadership Mentor/Coach, and on the board of Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG).

She is passionate about community, health, and youth! She endeavors to work and live a life that supports these.

Bailey is a native of Pittsburgh who graduated from Peabody High School; attended Pennsylvania State University to study Health Policy and Administration and earned her Bachelor of Science degree; she has her Master in Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.

Karen Brooks

Board Member | Board Member Since 2012

Just after graduation from Chatham College with a degree in Environmental Studies, Karen (she/her) got sucked into the vortex of the bike industry, and aside from a couple years at the East End Food Co-op with Mac Howison, has not been able (or willing) to escape since. She worked at various Gatto Cycle Shops from 1996 to 2001, going from shop rat to store manager, then later at Rotating Mass Media, publishers of Dirt Rag and Bicycle Times, from 2004-2014. She was the founding editor of Bicycle Times. Currently she is enjoying a career as a freewheeling freelancer for all kinds of bike-related companies and institutions, including serving as Carnegie Mellon University’s bike consultant.

Karen and Dan Yablonsky worked together to develop Bike Pittsburgh’s City Cycling educational program. Teaching these classes, along with mountain bike clinics for The Wheel Mill and others, has become her most rewarding two-wheeled activity.

Karen enjoys just about all forms of fun on a bicycle, although her first love is mountain biking.

She can be found at events such as the Trans-Sylvania Epic mountain bike stage race and the Dirty Dozen as well as cruising the trails of Frick Park. Bikepacking is a current obsession. But above all, she enjoys traveling the city streets by bike and marveling at the transformation of Pittsburgh into a truly bike-friendly city.

Bruce Chan

Board Member | Board Member Since 2019

Bruce (he/him) is a planner and urban designer, with a background in architecture, whose work centers around re-envisioning the post-industrial American city.  Having completed his masters research in Urban Design in Pittsburgh, Bruce continues to collaborate with local Western Pennsylvania architecture and planning firms in enhancing and updating communities, with an eye towards preservation, accessibility, and equity.  

He is a passionate advocate for pedestrian and bike infrastructure in Pittsburgh, and in 2016 received the Advocate of the Year award from Bike Pittsburgh for his work with local grassroots advocacy organization Bloomfield Livable Streets.

A native southern Californian, he now resides in the neighborhood of Bloomfield in Pittsburgh, where he also serves on the Board of the Bloomfield Development Corporation (and can often be found swimming at the Bloomfield Beach).

Phill Cresswell

Board member | Board Member Since 2023

Phill Cresswell (he/him) is the Senior Director of Arena Technical Operations for the National Hockey League (NHL), where he has been instrumental in the implementation and support of game operations technology since 2008. Phill has also spent time in the education and non-profit sectors in various roles with Pittsburgh Public Schools and Planned Parenthood of Western PA.

Originally from Stoneboro, Pennsylvania, he spent much of his childhood riding bikes on the dirt roads and old railroad beds of his hometown. In 2000, he moved to Pittsburgh and shortly thereafter took up road cycling as a means of transportation. Phill soon learned to love the new paths revealed by traveling through the city on a bike, as well as the inclusive bike community here

Holly Douglas

Board member | Board Member Since 2024

Holly Douglas has over 25 years of experience in environmental and safety management across various sectors including consulting, oil and gas, waste, and manufacturing. She specializes in assessments, permitting (air/water/waste), compliance, and training. Notably, she has successfully managed permitting and compliance for air permits in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, as well as waste stream permitting and landfill expansions. Holly is also an accomplished trainer, having taught courses at the Community College of Allegheny County and holding positions as an OSHA Authorized Construction Trainer and a National Green Infrastructure Certification Program Trainer. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, a Master’s degree in Safety Management, and an Executive MBA. Currently, she serves on multiple boards and committees, including as Chairperson of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Engineering Outreach and the Bible Center Church Finance Committee. Holly is a key member of the executive team at Cosmos Technologies, Inc., an engineering consulting firm, where she works alongside her husband, Frederick Douglas, the company’s founder. Holly is also one of the original members of the Major Taylor Cycling Club leading the first youth trip from Maryland to Pittsburgh.

Edward Engler

EMERITUS | Board Member Since 2002

Ed (he/him) is the founder and Chairman of Summa Technologies, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based software consulting firm. He is also a General Partner with Pittsburgh Equity Partners. Ed brings his deep experience within the local business community to Bike Pittsburgh. He is a founding board member and has been here since 2002.

Josiah Gilliam

BOARD MEMBER | Board Member Since

Josiah serves as the Executive Director for PUMP. Previously, he served as Special Initiatives Coordinator in the Mayor’s Office for Mayor Gainey and as the My Brother’s Keeper Coordinator for Mayor Peduto. He serves on the Board of Directors for POGOH, First Tee – Pittsburgh, and Bike PGH. Josiah is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and Leadership Pittsburgh’s LDIXXIII. He is a member of the current Leadership Pittsburgh XL cohort.

Julie Grove

Treasurer | Board Member Since 2021

Julie Grove (she/her) has an extensive background in Sales and Supply Chain Strategy and is currently serving as Treasurer of the Bike PGH Board of Directors. Julie has always had a passion for riding bikes and for finding the safest and most interesting way to get around the city car-free. She loves finding little known public pathways, cobblestone hills and staircases to explore and share with others. As a life-long resident of Pittsburgh, Julie has witnessed and celebrated the dramatic change of our city’s culture into one that is far more bike and pedestrian friendly and is excited to take our city to the next level through the transformative work of Bike PGH.

Beth Hazlett

Chair | Board Member Since 2010

Beth (she/her) is a Strategic Account Manager for McGraw-Hill Construction, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.  Beth cannot remember a time when she did not ride a bike – there are even pictures of her on the back of her Dad’s bike when she was a baby.  A native of Pittsburgh, she loves cycling on the roads here and overseas.  Most vacations are spent on a bicycle traveling the roads of another country.   She is passionate about the idea that bikes and cars can safely share the road.  She is also passionate about getting as many people on bicycles as possible – it’s fun and it’s healthy.  Beth rides with Lou’s Crew on most Saturdays and Sundays.  Her favorite “city ride” is to the top of Mt. Washington either in the early morning or just before sunset. Beth also serves as an Ambassador at the Pittsburgh Public Theater. She is a graduate of Fox Chapel High School and Smith College.

Mac Howison

Emeritus | Board Member Since 2008

Mac Howison (he/him/they) is the Program Officer for Creative Learning at The Heinz Endowments, where his work focuses primarily on initiatives that intersect with the Endowments’ Creativity and Learning goal areas. Mac is responsible for advancing the foundation’s work through the Creative Learning initiative – A creative youth development funding strategy to cultivate an equitable creative arts and cultural learning network, improve access to transformative learning experiences for young people, and support meaningful professional opportunities for teaching artists. For nearly twenty years Mac has designed and implemented trust-based funding approaches for nonprofits, foundations, and intermediaries that deepen relationships in community and provide resources in consultation with neighborhood partners. Mac is a 2016 PLACES Fellow with The Funders Network and prior to The Heinz Endowments he was Senior Program Officer at The Sprout Fund. A former museum educator, semi-retired rock musician, and someone who loves to bike, run, hike, and play outside, Mac holds a BFA in Fine Art from Carnegie Mellon University.

Susan Petersen

Secretary | Board Member Since 2012

Shortly after moving to Pittsburgh in 1989, Susan’s (she/her) darkest fears about the status of biking in Pittsburgh were confirmed when the city was named worst city for biking. Coming from pedaling the awesome cycling infrastructure in Germany and Denmark, this was quite a blow. So the tremendous progress of recent years is even more thrilling and Susan is honored to be able to contribute to making Pittsburgh more bike friendly.

Susan and her husband Stefan Frembgen can be seen biking around the East End where they live and own a business. They also enjoy bike touring. Memorable trips include the Great Allegheny Passage-B&O Canal trail to Washington, DC; and a family tour with Adventure Cycling in Colorado. They have three children, Ingrid, Marco & Renée. A native of Michigan, Susan has degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin.

Jennifer Reitzell

Board Member | Board Member Since 2024

Jennifer Reitzell (she/her) is the Manager for the PNC Charitable Trusts where her work is centered around the grantmaking for nearly 200 foundations and charitable trusts where PNC acts as trustee. She holds her Bachelors and Master’s degrees from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and a Certificate in Strategy and Innovation from Carnegie Mellon University.

A four-season all-weather bike commuter for over a dozen years, Jennifer loves riding the city streets and creating ridiculous endurance challenges with her husband.  When not driving her teenagers around the city or on her bike, she can be found hanging on climbing walls at her climbing gym or running laps on the trails in Riverview Park training for her next  ultramarathon.

Armin Samii

Board Member | Board Member Since 2024

Armin Samii (he/etc) is the CEO and founder of dashcam.bike, which helps people around the globe advocate for improved bicycling infrastructure. He is also the founder of RCVis and a developer of RCTab, two tools that help election administrators run Ranked Choice Voting elections. He received his Masters of Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he learned to love comfortable trains, connected bike networks, and wide sidewalks. He has been car-free since 2014.

Alexander Schwall

Board Member | Board Member Since 2023

Bill Simon

Board Member | Board Member Since 2023

Bill Simon (he/him) has an extensive background in Sales and Marketing within the Food Manufacturing industry.   He is currently the Group Vice President for Sales with McCormick & Company which is headquartered in Baltimore.   Bill has been a passionate cyclist for well over a decade and participates in a number of charity based events throughout the year.   Bill is a native of Philadelphia and has resided in Pittsburgh for well over 25 years.   He has had extensive experience with a number of non-profit boards, including St Joes Food Marketing (current), The Smeal MBA Alumni Board, The Schreyers Honor College Board and the Southwest Pennsylvania Red Cross.   Bill is looking forward to advancing the terrific work that BikePgh has done to advance the safety and advocacy of cyclists and pedestrians throughout the city of Pittsburgh.

Brendon Slotterback

Board Member | Board Member Since 2023

Josh Stein

Board Member | Board Member Since 2023

Josh (he/him) moved to Pittsburgh in 2002 and has enjoyed experiencing the transformation of Pittsburgh into a more bikeable and walkable city. He holds an MBA and JD from the University of Pittsburgh and is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Romania). When Josh is not playing with his kids, volunteering, or practicing law, he can be found walking and bicycling around the city.

Anne Marie Toccket

Board Member | Board Member Since 2023

Anne Marie Toccket has worked across the globe with social enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and individuals to build strong, lasting, effective institutions. She is executive director of the Posner Foundation of Pittsburgh. She also founded Procopia, a consultancy serving nonprofits and foundations.

Anne Marie began her career in San Juan, Puerto Rico with AmeriCorps*VISTA in a Women’s Small Business Administration office at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. She then moved to rural Peru, where she worked for an indigenous-led NGO in building market access for Quechua women artisans. That experience led her to co-found Awamaki, an NGO that readies indigenous women artisans for small business ownership. Anne Marie worked for a decade at the Philanthropy Forum at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh, where is now an adjunct professor. Anne Marie has a master’s degree in public policy from GSPIA and three bachelor’s degrees in Spanish, international relations, and journalism from Penn State. In her free time, you can find Anne Marie riding her bike, walking in Highland Park, exploring Pittsburgh’s lesser-trodden City steps, and spending time with her partner.

Mike White

Board Member | Board Member Since 2022

Mike grew up in Homewood and is a teacher, entrepreneur, cyclist and founder of the Ruach Bike Club, which he started in 2017. Their members learn how to ride and race BMX bikes, and how to maintain bikes. Their workshops at Pitt Community Engagement Center, and The Wheel Mill in Homewood focus on STEM learning, bicycle mechanics, safety, and health. The type of education and skills provided build confidence and help nurture problem solving skills along with making science and math more accessible and understandable for today’s youth.