Suburban Action Week 2021 Recordings
Suburban Action Week 2021 was a huge success featuring 25 short online talks and workshops with advocates, county staff, and community leaders from around the Chicagoland region. The sessions below are divided into three categories: Workshops, Advocacy Talks, and County/Transit Updates. Enjoy the recordings and share with your community!
Workshops – Workshops aimed at increasing your capacity and effectiveness as an advocate.
- Ask an Artist: Promoting Pedestrian & Cyclist Safety through Public Art
- Mary Fedorowski, Chicago Artist, Founder, Overbite Studio
- Ask an Engineer: How Projects Get Built
- Mike Kerr, President, Christopher B. Burke Engineering
- Suburban Advocacy Training 101
- Jim Merrell, Managing Director of Advocacy, and Maggie Czerwinski, Advocacy Manager
- Inclusive Community Engagement Workshop
- Alex Perez, Advocacy Manager, and Maggie Czerwinski, Advocacy Manager
Advocacy Talks – Get tips and advice on best practices from advocates who have carried out campaigns to improve walking, biking and transit in their communities.
- Advocacy Talk: Active Trans and Ride Illinois Executive Directors
- Amy Rynell, Executive Director, Active Transportation Alliance, and Dave Simmons, Executive Director, Ride Illinois
- Advocacy Talk: Bike Walk Oak Park
- Sylvia Schweri, Bike Walk Oak Park
- Advocacy Talk: Coalition for a Modern Metra Electric
- Co-chairs for a Coalition for a Modern Metra Electric Andrea Reed and Linda Thisted
- Advocacy Talk: Cycle Brookfield
- Chris Valadez and Terri Rivera, Cycle Brookfield
- Advocacy Talk: Elgin Community Bikes
- Parker Thompson, Elgin Community Bikes
- Advocacy Talk: Friends of the East Branch DuPage River Trail
- Leaders Committee for Friends of the EBDRT: Libby A’Hearn Gilmore, Ginger Wheeler, and Steve Johnson
- Advocacy Talk: McHenry County Bicycling Advocates & Cycling Without Age
- A 2-part talk with Eberhard Viet, President, McHenry County Bicycling Advocates and Greg Glover, Cycling Without Age
- Advocacy Talk: Midwest Sustainability Group
- Barbara Klipp, Executive Director, Midwest Sustainability Group
- Advocacy Talk: Q&A with Daily Herald Biking Columnist
- Ralph Banasiak, Daily Herald ‘Along for the Ride’ Columnist
- Advocacy Talk: Suburban Community Leaders
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- Alderwoman Abby Beck, City of Batavia and President Sergio Rodriguez, Village of Summit
County and Transit Updates – Hear about recent and upcoming walking, biking, trail, and transit projects happening in your county.
- Cook County Bike Plan Update
- Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways staff: Beth Davis, Planner, Benet Haller, Transit Manager, Tomo Music, Transportation Planner
- Cook County Transit Plan Update
- Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways staff: Benet Haller, Transit Manager, Tomo Music, Transportation Planner
- DuPage County Update
- Sid Kenyon, Senior Transportation Planner, DuPage County Division of Transportation
- Kane and Kendall Counties Update
- Kane County Division of Transportation and Kane/Kendall Council of Mayors staff: Jackie Forbes, Chief of Planning and Programming & Council Director, and Troy Simpson, Regional Planning Liaison/Bicycle & Pedestrian Coordinator
- Lake County Update
- Kevin Carrier, Director of Planning and Programming, Lake County Division of Transportation, and Randy Seebach, Director of Planning and Land Preservation, Lake County Forest Preserves
- McHenry County Update
- Emily Daucher, Planning Liaison, McHenry County Council of Mayors and Division of Transportation, and Ryan Peterson, Transportation Planner, McHenry County Division of Transportation
- Will County Update
- Cori Crawford, Planning Coordinator, Will County Forest Preserve, and Elaine Bottomley, Director of Transportation, Will County Governmental League
- Pace Bus Update
- Maggie Daly Skogsbakken, Pace Chief Communication Officer and Charlotte Obodzinski, Pace Department Manager, Priority Project Management Office
- Metra Rail Update
- Michael Gillis, Metra’s Director of Communications