Gearing up for 2017 with new staff

Cal Walks Newsletter

December 2016

Year-End Matching Challenge!

We have an end-of-the-year challenge for you!

A generous donor has offered California Walks $500 with the condition that we raise a matching $500 before the end of the year--this is a great way to bolster our mission with a $10, $25, $50, or even $100 donation.


Youth Training Youth in South Kern

Your support enables our Youth Leaders to train, engage, and inspire the next generation of advocates for healthy, equitable, and walkable communities.


	Equipping residents & agencies with skills to take action in Ukiah Credit: Nathan DeHart, Ukiah Daily Journal

And in 2017, your support will enable us to continue collaborating with local partners across the state to advance pedestrian and bicyclist safety and transportation justice.

Each and every donation counts, and the first $500 will be matched. Please consider California Walks in your year-end giving.

New staff and a well-deserved promotion to ring in 2017


Miha, Caro, and Wendy making grand plans for 2017 in our Whittier office

Our workload is growing and so is our staff-we are very excited to ring in the New Year with three new members of the California Walks family:

Miha Tomuta, Community Engagement Manager, based in Orange County
Wendy Ortiz, Community Engagement Coordinator, based in Orange County
Austin Travis Dylan Hall, Central Valley Policy Manager, based in Fresno

For now, you can see Miha, Wendy, and Austin's bios on our staff page. In the coming weeks, they'll each share a bit more about themselves and their goals for the coming year with Cal Walks.

But that's not all of our good news-in recognition of her tremendous work, including coordinating the many moving parts to make PedsCount! 2016 successful and organizing the Active Transportation Leadership Program in Garden Grove and Anaheim-Caro Jauregui is being promoted to Senior Manager, Policy & Programs! Join us in thanking Caro for all her hard work and leadership in Southern California!

Kern Region Active Transportation Plan begins to take shape with walk and bike audits

Discussing ramps and marked crossings in Arvin

In just two weeks earlier this month, California Walks co-facilitated walk and bike audits in nine-yes, you read that right-communities all across Kern County to advance local conversations on pedestrian and bicycling infrastructure, including what's working and what could be improved. Read on to find out how we're elevating residents' concerns with walking and biking for the Kern Region Active Transportation Plan.

New Resources

US DOT Every Place Counts Leadership Academy Transportation Toolkit

As part of the Ladders of Opportunity Initiative, the US Department of Transportation has released a Transportation Toolkit for emerging transportation leaders and other stakeholders who have limited experience with the transportation decision-making process that helps to demystifies the transportation decision-making process.