Emily has been actively involved in bicycle planning and advocacy since 2004. She has consulted for New York University since 2007, completing a State of Cycling Report for the campus that was adopted as the school’s bicycling section of their Transportation Master Plan. Before founding BICI, she worked for the NYC Department of City Planning in the Transportation Division, where she developed and contributed to a variety of reports on the future of cycling in New York.
Emily was the project leader on an innovative Bicycle Recycling Program partnership between NYU and Time’s Up! Environmental Non-Profit; for the project she was awarded the 2008 Edward J. Bergman Scholarship in Social Entrepreneurship. Emily studied Sustainable Urban Design and Planning at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, with an emphasis on non-motorized transportation.
Mark has been heavily involved with New York City bicycle community building for the past 5 years. Since 2004, Mark has been a community organizer, education director and the bicycle co-op director of the Time’s Up! Environmental Non-Profit. During that time he helped to establish the first NYU Bicycle Recycling Program, and partnered with Transportation Alternatives to develop safety presentations for NYU freshmen. Mark is also a certified cycling instructor through the League of American Bicyclists.
Professionally, Mark has focused on industrial design and urban planning, and is particularly interested in the intersection of design, policy and behavior. He left a high-end Soho design firm to co-found BICI with Emily Allen. He graduated cum laude from NYU, receiving a BA in Urban Politics and Latin American Development.
