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"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean."
— Ryunosuke Satoro
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Geraldine Carter, Founder and Director
Geraldine graduated with an Environmental Engineering degree from Cornell University, but traded her talent for solving differential equations for a life of travel and exploration. She followed the advice often given to her: Do it while you're still young. Taking this to heart, Geraldine explored all continents, leading bicycle tours and hiking trips. She traveled from Bhutan to Bolivia, Patagonia to Prague, Istanbul to Antarctica, sometimes on foot, but mostly on two wheels. She has recently combined her passion and concern for the environment with her intuitive understanding of logistics and bicycle tours to create Climate Ride 2008. Ever the optimist, Geraldine hopes to inspire cyclists around the world to turn their wheels toward their respective capitols and ask their leaders to have the courage to make the changes that our planet so desperately needs.
Geraldine currently resides in Montana, where she aims to be off the grid, carbon neutral, and gasoline free by 2012. She has 9 bicycles and a car she rarely drives. |
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Caeli Quinn, Founder and Director
Caeli earned her degree from Northwestern University and then hit the road on two wheels. Caeli spent ten years traveling the world, leading bicycling and hiking trips in far flung locations. While pedaling in China and Burma, she witnessed uncontrolled development, dirty coal plants, and extreme poverty. Caeli returned to the U.S. and began to question the economic model, the legacy, and the example that the U.S. was setting for the world. She settled in Whitefish, Montana, near Glacier National Park, just as scientists were exposing the grave effects of global warming on Glacier's trademark glaciers and its ecosystem. Caeli decided that the first step to making an impact on the global issue of climate change was to address the role of the United States in global warming and the access that Americans have to sustainable energy. As a founder of Climate Ride, Caeli endeavors to propel the U.S. to a green economy and the resolution of global warming, the greatest threat facing humanity.
When Caeli isn't out riding her bicycle, she lives in Montana with two labradors and her adventure guide husband. They are in the process of designing an energy efficient and sustainable home with solar panels and plenty of insulation for the Montana winter.
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David Kroodsma, Public Relations Manager
After earning a masters degree from Stanford University studying the science of climate change, David embarked on a two-year global warming education campaign, all based on his bicycle. David biked from California to the tip of South America, giving talks in Spanish and English and appearing in national media across 16 countries. He followed this trip up with a similar journey across the U.S. with another activist, and you can check out photos and climate-related stories from the two websites, Ride for Climate: The Americas and Ride for Climate: USA.
David believes that by joining Climate Ride you will be becoming part of the solution, and asks you not to underestimate how much a bike ride can transform your life. |
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Ann Cleaveland, Development Coordinator
Ann Cleaveland's
first experience with the grand sport of cycling was as a student at Rice University, where "Beer Bike" is the most competitive event of the year. She went on to fall in love with cross-country bicycling on RAGBRAI, the annual bike tour across Iowa. Since then, her two wheels have accompanied her from Costa Rica to Thailand, and many places in between.
Ann has worked for years in outdoor/travel industry, where she has witnessed the effects of climate change from the tundra of the Canadian Arctic to farmlands in Ecuador. Ann became convinced that we have a responsibility as citizens to take action in ways big or small. Only with the combined imagination of business, government and civil society can we preserve a world that will sustain our grandchildren.
Ann currently lives in Oakland, California, where she is pursuing an MBA in Sustainable Management at the Presidio School of Managment.
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Melissa Schmidt, Development Coordinator
Upon finishing a degree in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, Melissa found her calling as an adventure travel guide. While exploring the outer reaches of Alaska and the inner depths of Australia's Daintree forest, she developed an understanding of our complex environment and the affects humans have upon it. Melissa has worked extensively in our national parks, such as Glacier and Death Valley, and has witnessed the effects of climate change firsthand. When Melissa isn't hiking with mountain goats in Glacier or pedaling in the California wine country, you'll find her knee deep in accounting books. With a businessperson acumen and a desire to make sustainable business the norm, Melissa is pursuing a MBA degree from San Francisco State University. |
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Jen Kroner, Outreach Coordinator
After earning a degree in International Studies, Jen decided to put her knowledge to the test. Leaving behind all-things-familiar, Jen biked, sailed, and worked her way from Argentina to Andalusia over a ten-year period. Time and distance afforded her a wide variety of perspectives and a unique position from which to compare paths of development, but it was really her time spent living on sailboats and seeing humans’ impact on the oceans that taught her the lessons of self-sustainability that she carries with her today. Jen has turned her ideals into a way of life, managing an orchard in the Pacific Northwest that focuses on food security and long-term sustainability. |
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