Barbara Klieforth, President
Martin Moulton, Vice President

Paul d’Eustachio, Treasurer

Randall Myers, Secretary
Casey Anderson

Matthew Bieschke

David Bono

Kendall Dorman

Susan Orlins

Elissa Parker

Jim Titus

Dana Wolfe

Bruce Wright

By Laws

Conflict of Interest Statement

WABA's board of directors is elected yearly by the membership at our Annual Meeting.  If you have interest in serving on WABA's Board, please contact the board President,Barbara Klieforth, at barbara(at)waba.org.

Barbara Klieforth
president

Environmental Protection Agency

Barbara Klieforth is an environmental scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency. More importantly, she's also manager of their stellar indoor bike parking facility in downtown DC. She has been a life-long cycling commuter, and recreational cyclist.  An active member of WABA, she feels that DC has the potential to be a world-leader in making cycling a safe, convenient and fun transportation option. She lives in Prince George's County, MD, is editor of the College Park Area Bicycle Coalition's newsletter "Pedal Power" and can't wait for the Met Branch Trail to be a reality! 

Contact: Barbarak(at)waba.org

 

MARTIN MOULToN

vice president

Designer

Roll Call

Martin Moulton is a commuter cyclist, but has done some bike touring with a little single track in South Africa, Australia, Tasmania, Costa Rica as well as the US in his native California, New Hampshire and outside of the Washington DC area. Martin is a graduate of Dartmouth College who currently works as a print/web designer for Roll Call Newspaper.  Martin is also active with several community associations in Washington's Shaw neighborhood and tutors students at a local elementary school.  In 2007, he was featured on the cover of the Washington Post for recovering one of my stolen Cannondale mountain bikes.  Martin has never driven a car and never had an interest or need to have a license to drive a motor vehicle. 

Contact: Martin(at)waba.org.

 

Paul d’Eustachio
Treasurer

Management Consultant

ESP Group

Paul d'Eustachio, an alleged member of the Washington Cycling Lunatic Fringe, is the proud owner of at least 12 bicycles. So that he is able to support his cycling habit and provide a college education for his children he is also Treasurer and Controller of Antares Group Inc. and Acting Controller for New West Technologies, LLC. Both companies are government contractors specializing in engineering and economic analysis of renewable energy generation processes and high efficiency vehicle
transportation solutions.

Contact: Pauld(at)waba.org

 

Randall Myers

Secretary

Senior Budget Analyst for the Office of the Chief Financial Officer
Government of the District of Columbia

Coming to the District from Philadelphia with a lot of time on his hands about 9 years ago, Randall brought a consistent adoration and respect for biking since riding his "Big Wheel" into the ground. Coming to the District to earn a Masters of Public Administration from American University, he made futile attempts to purchase and ride less-than-stellar department store bikes. After a few years of working as a budget analyst in Montgomery County and the District, he heard about the 2002 Tour de Friends ride from coworkers who happened to be members of Brother to Brother Sister to Sister United (BBSSU), a cycling team that works to educate and prevent the spread of HIV / AIDS in the District. After cycling with and then later becoming vice-president of BBSSU, he began his slow and continuing ride toward cycling education and advocacy. He has since been asked to be chair of the Pedestrian / Wheel committee of the Children's National Medical Center DC Injury Prevention Coalition: Injury Free Coalition for Kids - DC. Contact: Randall(at)waba.org

 

Casey Anderson

Attorney

Contact: Casey(at)waba.org

 

Matthew Bieschke

Finance and Strategy Consultant

PB Consult Inc.

Matthew Bieschke is a finance and strategy consultant with PB Consult Inc.  His career has been spent in and around transportation, and has lived in Washington, DC since 1999. He has worked with several local transportation-related clients, including DDOT, WMATA, and the Maryland Transportation Authority.  He has been cycling for 20 years, is currently an avid road rider and triathlete.  Matt is a strong advocate for promoting accessibility for cyclists and bike safety. 

Contact: Matt(at)waba.org

 

David Bono

Partner
Harkins Cunningham LLP

David Bono began a lifetime of bicycle commuting when he was going to grade school in Savannah, GA. After keeping the habit up in Boston and Philadelphia, he does so today in Washington, where he enjoys saying "good morning" to anyone he manages to pass on the Capitol Crescent Trail (and says it even after noon). David is an active member of the Oxon Hill Bike and Trail Club and the Potomac Pedelars Touring Club, is an organizer of the 2009 Race Across America (RAAM) Team Cross-Country for Crohn's (to benefit research to find a cure for Crohn's Disease), and was officially dubbed Washington's "bicycle vigilante" by John Stewart on the Daily Show in 2008. When he gets off his bike -- and sometimes while he is still on it -- David is a lawyer in private practice specializing in federal litigation and regulatory planning, having previously defended Clinton Administration policies and programs in the Department of Justice.

Contact: David(at)waba.org

Kendall Dorman

Architect

Kendall has been riding bikes for all but about the first 5 years of his life.  He has owned a stingray, a cruiser, a Schwinn Continental, a few mountain bikes, two track bikes, and a plethora of road bikes.  He has lived in DC since 1988 and has participated sporadically in Bike DC with his wife, JT Roy.  He regularly rides on the weekends in unsanctioned, unofficial, so-called races with a group of riders that are typically younger, stronger and faster than him.  But, he also likes to ride to work or to other destinations on roads, trails and/or paths.  Last year he rode to the top of the Col du Tourmalet.  He is a practicing Architect and strives to design buildings that are, as he believes bicycles are, friendlier to the environment.  He plans to do the following: Help promote the goals of WABA,  be a diplomat of goodwill for WABA and continue to uphold the bicycle as a legitimate and noble form of transportation.

Contact: Kendall(at)waba.org

 

SUSAN ORLINs

Editor

Moment Magazine

After graduating from University of Pennsylvania in 1967, where she majored in math and minored in art, Susan moved to DC, and promptly bought a used J. C. Higgins (old Sears model) bicycle.  Then, as now, she got to most of the places she had to go on my bicycle.  After moving to Vermont, Susan returned to DC in 1976 and became a stockbroker at Merrill Lynch (and later at Morgan Stanley in New York City). Currently Susan is the Associate Editor for Moment Magazine.  Susan enjoys hosting fundraising events and travel quite a bit, including a Backroads bicycle trip every summer.  In the past 7 months, she has biked in Ireland, Budapest, as well as on her very own Flying Pigeon in China.

Contact: Susan(at)waba. org

 

Jim Titus

Jim(at)waba.org

Elissa Parker

Vice President for Research and Policy

The Environmental Law Institute

Elissa A. Parker has been an environmental lawyer for nearly 37 years.   She is currently the Vice President for Research and Policy at the Environmental Law Institute where she supervises local, U.S., and international programs dealing with protection of water, climate change, sustainable use of land, biodiversity, environmental justice, greenbuildings, wetlands, constitutional law, nanotechnology, and other challenges to the environment and public health.  She has served for years on the boards of a number of other non-profit organizations, including the Institute for Conservation Leadership.  She is a committed bicycle commuter who has never owned a car and wants to shift more commuting and short car trips in the DC area to bike trips to save energy, reduce pollution, and promote health.   

Contact: Elissa(at)waba.org

 

Dana Wolfe

Conservation Advocate

The Ocean Conservancy

Dana Wolfe is a conservation advocate for The Ocean Conservancy in Washington, DC. She’s lived and worked in DC for 12 years, spending most of that time working in the environmental community as a government affairs professional. A daily bike commuter, she’s learned first-hand the hazards faced by those who pursue cycling as a daily transportation alternative, whether for fitness or environmental purposes, or just for pure enjoyment. Dana’s been a cycling enthusiast since taking up mountain biking during college, and continues to train and race regularly. She enjoyed a two-year hiatus from the legislative affairs grind working as a D.C. bike messenger, which eventually led her to become a regular volunteer for WABA.

Contact: Dana(at)waba.org

 

Bruce Wright

Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling

Bruce has been a daily bike commuter since moving to Reston in 1979. He worked for the U.S. Geological Survey doing Geographic Information Systems research, including helping to develop the digital National Atlas of the United States. In 1999 he left the USGS to bike across the U.S. from San Diego to St. Augustine with an Adventure Cycling group.  He worked for Fairfax County Supervisor Cathy Hudgins for several years handling bicycle and pedestrian issues and developing and maintaining web content. Most recently he sold and repaired bikes at . He helped form Fairfax Advocates for Better Bicycling in 2005 and is the current chairman. He was chairman of the Fairfax County Trails and Sidewalks Committee for several years and serves on the Tysons Land Use Task Force. Bruce and his wife Kerie Hitt take regular bike vacations around the U.S.

Contact: Brucew(at)waba.org