Contact Information

Physical Address (for FedEx/UPS) Cascade Bicycle Club 7400 Sand Point Way NE Building 138 Seattle, WA 98115 Phone: (206) 522-BIKE (2453) or (206) 522-3222 Fax: (206) 522-2407 Office Open: 9:00 - 5:00 Monday - Friday

Mailing Address (for USPS): Cascade Bicycle Club 7400 Sand Point Way NE Suite 101S Seattle, WA 98115

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Staff

Americorps Members

Thanks to her dad and a Burley full of Pop Tarts and coloring books, Jennifer has ridden along on a variety of rides including Cycle Oregon and Ramrod. She has also completed four STPs, multiple Chilly Hillys and led kids' rides for Cascade.

Seattle rain has yet to deter her, and although she prefers sunny rides, she's thrilled to be back home. Though she's a born and raised Seattle girl, as a recent graduate from Washington State University, she has dipped her toes in the eastern side of the state. No matter where she is, she will be more than happy to give you a "Go Cougs" while riding down the trail.

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Swimming coach's daughter from Virginia. I learned to compete early when my younger sister won her age group and mine. Moved to California at 13, attended UW, married and lived here for 25 years. Moved a house from Bellevue to Vashon. Moved off Vashon to Oakland, CA after 10 years. Have spent leisure time auto rallying, running, playing soccer, sculling, and bicycling. (But NOT swimming). Returned to Seattle 3 years ago after 12 years in Oakland where I worked for private K-12 school in development office and publications. Husband now operates automotive business, Group 2, Inc., so when I'm driving, it could be anything from an Alfa Spyder to a Ginetta!

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Emma is a native to Seattle, although she hasn't lived here in the past 5 years. She studied Spanish and Anthropology at Colorado College (yes! where Chuck's daughter is at school), and has been a bike commuter since way back in 2005.

After completing her first year of volunteering for Americorps in Washington DC, she decided it would be more of an adventure to bike home, fully loaded with front and rear panniers, Washington to Washington. 71 days and 3300 miles later, she finally started to self-identify as a biker.

Emma enjoys riding on the weekends (we will see how long that lasts after a winter commute in Seattle), dancing (every type, but especially salsa and swing), acroyoga, laughter yoga, potlucking, and speaking Spanish.

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In 2007, Ed left the corporate world and joined Cycle University to pursue his passion for coaching, instructing, and sharing the benefits of cycling. While coaching and marketing for Cycle University, Ed discovered the great advocacy work of the Cascade Bicycle Club and accepted the opportunity to direct the Major Taylor Project. The Major Taylor Project is a prefect representation of Ed's purpose and passion for cycling: "Everyone, regardless of race, gender, age, ability, or money, should be able to enjoy a bike. The 'bike' has literally transformed my life."

Ed lives in West Seattle and enjoys music, golf, donuts and bikes.

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After graduating from Purdue University, she followed her interests east to Wood Hole Oceanographic Institute, then west to Seattle where she earned a Master's from the UW, including extensive field work in the Kruger National Park in South Africa. Her migration to Seattle also included a transition from car to bicycle as transportation. Her experience living without a car, combined with her growing concern about climate change, led her to pursue transportation as a professional endeavor. She served for 5 years as Manager of Commuter Services at Seattle Children's Hospital, where single occupancy commuting dropped by 15% and bicycle commuting more than doubled under her leadership. Bicycling also grew as a personal passion, and even inspired Stephanie to learn how to swim properly so she could participate in a triathlon. Longing for more community, she joined the women of Team Group Health, who helped her grow her confidence, fitness, and racing skills. Then, in 2008, she and her husband Bill embarked on a year of foreign travel, including a self-supported bike tour of Eastern Europe and Turkey, using savings partly realized from Stephanie's use of alternative transportation over the years. Upon her return to Seattle, Stephanie joined the staff at Cascade, where her work will focus on developing the next generation of bicycle commuters, encouraging others in their journey as new commuters.

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Max Hepp-Buchanan was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and moved to Washington State at the age of six. Since then, Max has considered Seattle and the Puget Sound region his home. He has been riding bikes his whole life; first with training wheels, then with baseball cards in his spokes. Now he works to make Seattle and the Puget Sound region more bicycle-friendly for cyclists of all ages and skill levels.

Max graduated in June 2010 from the University of Washington, receiving a Master of Urban Planning degree from the College of Built Environments and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Evans School of Public Affairs. While at UW, Max spent much of his time studying alternative and sustainable transportation policy and planning, with a personal preference towards non-motorized/active modes of travel. He is currently serving his first two-year term on the Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board where he helps advise City staff and elected officials on all matters related to bicycling in Seattle.

In his free time, Max likes to travel the world and explore unfamiliar territory via bicycle.

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Sander spent his childhood in Baltimore, most of his life since then in Salt Lake City, and life since 2005 in the PNW, first in Portland then Seattle. Biking's been invaluable to Sander during two important periods of his life- first, at the age of 17 as part of physical therapy after tearing his ACL skiing, when he biked every day for months until he could hike and ski again; and second, for his car-free life since 2005.

Biking is mainly a commuting thing for him but he gets out for some recreational rides too. He toured with a friend from Seattle to San Francisco two summers ago, rode around Hood Canal during a 150-mile day last summer, and goes on and leads Cascade daily rides. Longest bike trip: the 1000 miles to SF. Shortest: the 0.2 miles to Whole Foods when he's feeling too lazy to walk.

School brought him to Seattle where he obtained his master's degree in urban planning from the University of Washington, and his love of bicycling and sustainable transportation brought him to Cascade, first as a Bicycle Ambassador and now as the Rides Program Coordinator. "I'm loving this job and looking forward to more successes with the Rides Program!"

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Originally from Santa Barbara, CA, Serena first become addicted to cycling while attending Santa Barbara Middle School. Through the school Serena was introduced to bike touring all around the Southwest US. Additionally she became "Bike Monkey" helping younger students with maintenance problems. With this newly experienced independence, 13 year old Serena became a bicycle commuter.

Fast forward many years later, Serena has never owned a car. An avid year round bicycle commuter, Serena loves climbing her two hills everyday on her trusty old bike. Her environmental consciousness as well of love of being outside keeps her commuting by bicycle everyday.

Contrary to popular belief Serena has other interests outside of cycling. She likes neuroscience, cooking, painting, camping and a good pint of beer.

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Originally from Petoskey, Mich., Kathy moved around a bit before settling in Seattle about eight years ago. "The weather here isn't as bad as people say. And the bugs really aren't a problem."

Before joining Cascade, she taught English language skills, primarily as a private tutor. When she's not working at Cascade, Kathy plays recreational softball. Her position is pitcher. She's been trying to roust the Cascade staff up to some lunchtime kickball games, but with it being event season, "All anyone wants to do is work, not play," she lamented. "It's just not right."

Kathy wasn't certain if she would enjoy working in an office, but said she's been pleasantly surprised.

"I like having the opportunity to do different jobs here, from event work to moving boxes. There's a lot to do, and it isn't boring."

Much of John's life has revolved around bikes. He started competing as a bike racer and triathlete in high school, but his real passion became using the bicycle for transportation and travel. John's first trip across the United States was on bicycle, and he's also done many self-supported trips to places like New Zealand, Iceland, and Eastern Europe. His most recent fascination is the bicycle as a way to access hiking and ski mountaineering routes in the Cascades (two of his other passions), and can occasionally be seen pedaling over passes in search of mountain goats and glaciers. John's commuted solely by bicycle for over a decade—but he's more recently come to the light and traded his spandex team kit for more normal bike clothing.

While not on a bike, John enjoys gardening, photography, trail-running and hiking with his wife, Annie.

A native Michigander, Kathy began her journey west cycling the back roads of southern Ohio near Miami University, her alma mater. Her favorite ride was to the annual bluegrass and apple butter festival on the road to Huston Woods State Park.

Pedaling around the Old Pueblo--Tucson–Kathy met her husband Bob. Upon completion of graduate school at Arizona State University, she escaped the heat to join Bob in Olympia. Together, they discovered the northwest via hiking, biking, and cross-country skiing. Favorite cycle tours include the Denali highway and a loop in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho.

In her "spare" time, Kathy enjoys cooking and the many adventures of living with Bob, Ryan the teenager, Sage the mutt, and Sam the hunter. Her most recent adventure was organizing the first middle school boy's lacrosse team in her community.

In addition to riding her bike uphill in the rain, Erica's interests include writing, cooking, backpacking, singing, and painting.

Robin is a Washington native living on Phinney Ridge with her husband and children. She taught her kids to ride as they were growing up and took them on local trips to the beach as well as longer tours in the surrounding area. Both kids still bike for transportation. While sharing a car with a teenager learning to drive, she began taking most errand and commuter trips by bike which led to her training as an League Certified Instructor in order to share her enthusiasm of cycling with others.

She started riding recreationally with Cascade in 2003 and did her first STP in 2004. Since then she has worked for Cascade first as Bicycle Ambassador and currently as Classes Coordinator.

Robin is a full-time bike commuter and thoroughly enjoys her freedom from the automobile.

Chris grew up in Connecticut, where he gained an appreciation for good pizza and spent countless hours daydreaming in the woods. He moved to the Seattle area at 14 and later attended Vassar College. He majored in economics and minored in music, performing anything from classical trombone to a cappella 80s tunes. Chris then taught English in Japan for two years. He misses his students, the three bikes he owned there, and singing karaoke until all hours of the night. After working on Darcy Burner's congressional campaign, Chris worked for Argo Strategies, where he managed the finances of Cascade's Action Fund among other campaigns. Most recently, he planned a voter registration drive for the Washington State Democrats. Chris is excited to be working with the city and other local governments to create better streets and neighborhoods. He enjoys an occasional pickup game of ultimate Frisbee and a good IPA.

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My Pops is a roadie so he got me into riding at an early age. He's nearing 70 now & I still can't keep up with him. He got me my first mountain bike in 1987.

Living in Tahoe for 10 years, skiing was my first sport so I competed in Big Mountain competitions in places as far as Chamonix, France. Then I switched to Skier Cross racing and did that for three years making it to the X-Games in 1999 & 2000 & Gravity Games in 2000.

Mountain biking was cross training for skiing then after a couple of years it became my favorite sport. I raced downhill and won Expert National title in 1998 then went pro for three years. My best finish was 16th at Sea Otter. The gnarliest course I ever did was the World Cup course at Squaw Valley.

I moved up to Seattle four years ago and decided it was time to give back to society so I started up a Trips for Kids chapter and I've been doing kids bike programs ever since. When the job opened up here at Cascade it was a perfect fit.

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Anna is a long time bike commuter with an ever increasing interest in touring and mountain biking. She moved to Seattle in September 2009 from Burlington, Vermont, where she studied Public Administration with a focus on Community Development; worked for several years as a fundraising and special events coordinator at a smaller bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organization; and served as an AmeriCorps member at a Drop-In Center for homeless and at-risk youth. She served as the 2009-2010 AmeriCorps Project Coordinator for Cascade's Major Taylor Project, and joined the Events & Sponsorship team in November 2010. Outside of work her interests include traveling, agriculture, local music, late night bike rides, and endeavoring to learn how to do a handstand.

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Kim is a certified scuba diver and sky diver. "I like to go up and down," she says. Kim volunteered at Cascade before joining as a regular staff member. As a former financial analyst for a Fortune 500 company, she truly appreciates the "family atmosphere and small business environment" of Cascade. In the summer of 2006, Kim accomplished one of her big bicycling goals: by participating in the Cascade Training Series, she completed her first century, riding from Seattle to Flaming Geyser State Park and back.

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In 1960 Peter was born to English parents in Toronto, Canada. In 1969 he moved to London, England, competing in many different varsity sports and landing his first job in the promotions field (age 16), operating a mobile Deejay service. In 1979 the entire family immigrated back to North America and landed in San Diego, California. During 1980-91 Peter owned and operated three different alternative rock clubs (before alternative became mainstream!), and promoted hundreds of concerts. Deciding a change of lifestyle was in order he decided to move to Seattle in 1992. In 1996 he graduated College with a Video Production degree and started his own production company (Pep Productions Inc). He also at this time spent five years as the Crocodile Café's (Seattle's top rock music club) promotions manager. During this time Peter also interned at King 5 televisions "Almost Live" comedy show, where he appeared numerous times on different skits. Peter has also been lucky enough to co-produce many top Seattle events, including the Fremont Fair, Fremont's original outdoor cinema, Absolut New Years Eve party, Renton Outdoor cinema and 4th of Jul-Ivars Music festival. In recognition for excellence in the field Peter has won three KEPA (King County Event Producers) Awards, including 'Best Millennium Event in the Pacific Northwest".

In 1997 Peter started riding his bike again after a 20 year break, and after watching Lance bounce back from cancer, became a full blown cycling addict. He has been a member of Cascade for about 8 years and actually learned about the opening for the "2003 Bike to Work coordinator" while on a daily bike ride with the club! Now a full-time Cascade employee, Pete enjoys producing events that draw in a varied and wide audience of cycling enthusiasts to the Cascade family. When not training and racing with the Cycle University race team, he also enjoys winter sports, international bike touring and watching international soccer.

Tarrell got into cycling through spin class. Not naturally athletic, cycling was the first time she ever felt like a jock – and she was hooked. She remembers her first foray into the city streets not long thereafter – and being terrified. But she kept it up, soon finishing the MS150 with a friend's team.

A graduate of Lewis and Clark College (Class of '91) and a longtime Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE), Tarrell has been helping non-profits raise money for over 18 years. In 2008, Tarrell made the move from at-home consulting to a fulltime Development Director position at an environmental organization downtown. That's when she started commuting by bike year round. "Bike commuting changed my life in ways I could have never imagined possible. Who knew, I could arrive at work (maybe a little wet and a little sweaty) awake, clear-headed, and ready to take on the day?"

A passionate environmentalist, Tarrell believes that bikes can save the world. (Or, at least make us a lot happier while we try). Tarrell lives in Ballard with her two sons, Sam (11) and Eli (14).