Category: Community Leaders

Community Leader Green Fondo 2024 “Seqër! I am an indigenous Mayan Guatemalan woman, I love the opportunity to bring diversity, equity, and inclusivity into the biking world. First of all, thank you for the amazing opportunity and the wonderful support. Thank you I can´t thank you enough, because even though at the beginning I was […]

Community Leader Green Fondo 2024 Photo credit: Emily Bei Cheng. “Despite limited exposure and resources for cycling in my upbringing and considering myself a ‘late bloomer’ in outdoor recreation, I’ve eagerly embraced challenges like 100-mile weekend rides and transformative bike-packing trips with organizations such as the California Field School and Trail Mixed Collective. I draw […]

Community Leader Green Fondo 2023 “The Green Fondo NorCal was my very first experience being part of a cycling event. From a young age, I’ve always been drawn to bikes, but it was only after moving to the beautiful CA Bay Area that I saw people who looked like me on bikes. It always felt like […]

Community Leader Green Fondo 2023 “This was the hardest and most exciting thing; I have ever done in my entire life. As a Black Girls Do Bike Community Leader Awardee, I was given the opportunity to participate in the Climate Ride up and down Mount Shenandoah. I would not have been able to do it […]

Community Leader Green Fondo 2023 “The Green Fondo SoCal Climate Ride was a life-altering experience for me, someone who picked up bike riding just two years ago. Leading up to this weekend, I was nervous and unsure about what to expect for my first bike tour. Thanks to the support from friends, colleagues, and the […]

Community Leader Green Fondo 2022 “It was a pleasant surprise to be asked to consider applying for a Community Leader Award. Nobody on our team of four had ever participated in an event like this. There are a lot of reasons why someone might decide against participating; doubts over physical ability, apprehensions about fundraising, vulnerability and […]