Paul Mickiewicz | Current President and Treasurer of Bike&Walk Montclair. Joined the BWM leadership team in 2008 and helped create the Bike Education program starting with the very popular “Learn to Ride” class. After obtaining the League Cycling Instructor certification in 2010, programming expanded to offer a number of Smart Cycling programs for adults, school groups and municipalities. In 2020 both Paul and his wife, Andrea Silk, added the Cycling Savvy Instructor certification to their repertoire, expanding programming further to include the very effective Cycling Savvy online classroom which includes very compelling interactive graphics, videos and discussion.  

A staunch Complete & Green Streets/Vision Zero advocate, Paul believes mobility equity and micro-mobility options are key to a just society and that building a culture where biking and walking is the preferred method of getting around town is critical to building a healthy community. Following a long career with the YMCA promoting healthy lifestyles, chronic illness prevention and community building, Paul has changed lanes to become the Bike Education Program Coordinator for the New Jersey Bike Walk Coalition in order to address these issues on a statewide level.

Bob is the current Vice President of Bike&Walk Montclair. Bob moved to Montclair in 2020 after more than a decade of living in NYC and Chicago where he got involved in a variety of Safe Streets initiatives. He got involved with Bike & Walk Montclair because of the untapped potential he saw in Montclair’s public spaces and commercial districts. There is so much we can do to make Montclair a more delightful and accessible place to live and visit. Bob works in Financial Technology when he isn’t day dreaming about traveling on bike lanes towards a pedestrianized Bloomfield Ave.

John Sullivan serves as a Bike&Walk Montclair board member and is a community placemaking activist. A science teacher by day, John is an avid fan of good urbanism and a proponent of the placemaking movement. John believes deeply in the physical, social, and psychological benefits of “Place.” He is an active part of the Streets Are For Everyone (SAFE) campaign and helped lead a grassroots effort that built the first demonstration parklet in Montclair. John enjoys generating community enthusiasm around both the policy and advocacy components of the public space and complete street initiatives in Montclair and beyond. John believes that Montclair’s traditional development pattern and “good bones,” coupled with its access to public transportation, make it an exciting place to study and implement non-auto-dependent transport options connected to Places that celebrate the human scale.

Bill Feeney has been a member of Bike&Walk Montclair as well as a resident in town since 2009. Bill brings 10 years of experience in bike advocacy, infrastructure design assistance and bike education. He has lead thousands of students of all ages from gradeschoolers to senior adults through innovative bike and Safe Routes to School programming throughout the State of New Jersey. Bill is a certified League of American Bicyclist instructor, volunteers with multiple local bike organizations, was previously employed by Jersey City Bike Share (CitiBike) and currently works for New Jersey Transit. As Vice President, Bill hopes to continue to further inspire and encourage residents and visitors in town to socially engage and explore the community on two wheels or two feet through innovative programs, rides and infrastructure improvements.

Jean Lyons first became involved with Bike&Walk Montclair in 2014 when she volunteered with the Bike Education program. Seeing how much good the organization does on a local level she was quickly hooked! Wanting to do more, she joined the Board of Directors in 2016 to help with communications and events. Jean teaches yoga in and around Montclair, is an avid cyclist and has a lifelong interest in movement, health and wellness. Since being with BWM, Jean became aware of how much she used her car – unnecessarily – and now bikes and walks locally whenever she can for errands, exercise and to help the environment.

Debra Kagan has been biking and walking Montclair for over 27 years and was very excited to join the BWM Board as a new member in 2016. She has worked professionally for over 25 years building strategic partnerships, developing programs, and telling stories through digital media at the intersection of education, community engagement, and social justice. Through her work as a consultant for both foundations and nonprofits, she developed programs that enabled youth to both envision and contribute to building stronger, more sustainable and just communities. She’s believes increasing opportunities for safe biking and walking, and providing places for public engagement is a great way to build a healthy and vibrant community. She can be seen walking in Brookdale Park or riding her Dutch bike with the flower print panniers on most days.