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10, Issue 13 |
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Our 20-year Vision Bold plans mean improved bicycling in Chicagoland Our vision: Youth development connects communities Our vision: Students walk and bike to school Our vision: A blanket of bike plans Journey brings advocacy to next level Outreach brings safe routes to schools, students Events director takes on future of successful rides |
Outreach brings safe routes to schools, students Somilia Smith joins the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation
as the new program coordinator for Mayor Daley’s Safe Routes
Ambassadors. Previously she worked as a bicycling ambassador and
as an After School Matters instructor for the Junior Bicycling Ambassador
program.
A Kansas
City native, Somilia first experienced the exhilaration of bicycling
on a Strawberry Shortcake banana seat. After moving to Chicago in
1994 to attend DePaul University, she picked up biking once again,
this time on a Cannondale V700. But the theft of all but the front
wheel of her new bike kept her from bicycling for a while. She went
on to work as an artist in Jamaica, serve as a cadet in the U.S.
Army, train in the mountains of Utah as a youth advocate and counselor,
and front a female music duo that opened shows for Grammy-nominated
acts.
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