Patrick Bibbins
President
Pat grew up in Cambridge, lives in Medford, and has been riding around the Boston area since elementary school. He works as a graphic designer at a children’s hospital and has a degree in Growth and Structure of Cities. He is a League of American Bicyclists Cycling Instructor, former chair of the Medford Bicycle Advisory Commission, and long-time advocate for transportation alternatives that are safe, useful, and fun for people of all ages and abilities.
Dan Krechmer
Vice President
Originally from Pennsylvania, Dan is a lifelong bike rider who’s lived in Melrose for nearly four decades. As a retired transportation planner, he has experience developing comprehensive plans for state, regional, and local agencies involving many modes of transport. In his community, he has served as chairperson of the Melrose Pedestrian Bicyclist Committee. Dan is a committed advocate for biking and walking as ways to promote healthy living, address environmental issues, and prepare for our changing climate.
Tai Lam
Secretary
Tai grew up in Malden and has a degree in physics. As a technologist, he works in the areas of digital security, privacy, and sociology of the Internet. He is also conversant in basic Spanish. Tai can often be found on the NST participating in invasive species control, cleanups, and staffing the B2C Bike Kitchen. He’s also involved in Malden’s Urban Media Arts and collaborated on, Understory, a short film that highlights the NST and many of the great things it has brought to his community.
Gary Chin
Board Treasurer
Gary lives in Malden and is the former Director of Community Engagement for Bikes Not Bombs. He is currently the Assistant Director for Continuing Education at Franklin Cummings Tech. He has an undergraduate degree in film and photography, and a master’s in teaching and speaks some Spanish. As a year-round bike rider, the NST is part of his regular commuting route.
Janet Green
Board Member
Janet lives in Malden and her career has included positions at Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA), the United Farm Workers, as well as in a small business, and she is now at the Jewish Climate Action Network MA. She has degrees in French and Biology, speaks some Spanish, and is currently taking classes in Mandarin Chinese. Janet’s service on the Malden Recycling Committee led her to become a long-time B2C board member and past president, and she has been instrumental in shepherding the NST through every phase from concept to completion.
Pete Sutton
Board Member
Pete lives in Somerville and is the Bicycle and Pedestrian Program Coordinator for MassDOT, where he manages updates to statewide plans, serves as Ex-officio on the Massachusetts Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, and chairs MassDOT’s Moving Together Conference. He has served on the B2C board since 2008 and has cycled every greenway in the state from Provincetown to Williamstown.
Jeff Garfinkle
Board Member
Originally from Kansas, Jeff Garfinkle lives in Melrose MA and works in the customer facing side of the technology world. Jeff has loved everything bike related since he learned to ride, and enjoys sharing that love of all things bicycle through the B2C Bike Kitchen.
Ginny Mullen
Board Member
Ginny lives in Revere close to the NST and has been a B2C and board member since the very earliest days of the organization. She is a school bus driver, which brings a valuable perspective to issues involving kids and safety on our roads and trails.
Susan Margot Ecker
Board Member
SüSi is a professional photographer from Malden and her portraits can be seen in a Malden Arts ARTLine outdoor installation right on the NST. She has been active in many of the city’s civic and community organizations for many years, has worked as a tour coordinator for a local museum, in educational travel, and at The Immigrant Learning Center in Malden, plus she speaks some Spanish. Along with her husband, Matt, she has toured Australia, Chile, Costa Rica, and countries in Europe by tandem bike. SüSi has also instructed bike riders young and old in local communities and through the MassDOT Safe Routes to School program.
Claudia LaFontaine
Board Member
Claudia lives in Lynn and has a degree in architecture with a minor in art history, and is learning to speak Spanish. She is an associate planner and designer for an urban planning consultancy and is involved in the community participation process and design of public spaces, and also specializes in public art installation projects. Walking is her preferred way of getting around her community, and she believes everyone else should have safe ways to travel in the way they wish, too.
Bob FitzPatrick
Board Member
Bob grew up in Cambridge, lived in Medford for 10 years, and now lives in Malden just blocks from the Northern Strand. He earned his law degree from the Suffolk University night program and currently works on clean energy issues for the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. He is a lifelong advocate for walkable cities, public transportation, and biking. He recently served on the Malden Climate Action Plan Steering Committee and is a committed volunteer for the Malden Warming Center.