Danielle’s (she/her, Los Angeles, CA) interest in bikepacking started with transit accessible solo weekend trips from Philadelphia, and eventually built up her off-road skills and confidence – and found the importance of community – with support from groups like Women Bike PHL and Radical Adventure Riders. Committed to gender and racial access to the outdoors, Danielle was co-founder of WTF Bike Explorers’ (precursor to RAR) Mid-Atlantic chapter and is now active with the Wild Wolf Cycling Collective. Her professional experience includes developing bike and pedestrian infrastructure as a transportation planner, advocating for safe streets across Baltimore, and providing pro-bono architecture and planning services for community organizations. Danielle has a BFA in Industrial Design from Carnegie Mellon and a masters in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA.
Jan (they/them, Cerrillos, NM) developed a keen interest in the great outdoors at a young age, attending three wilderness trips with Outward Bound before the 10th grade. After a back injury sidelined them from road and crit racing they developed a deep appreciation for bikepacking. Their personal experiences while scouting the Pony Express route moved them so deeply that they decided to commit themselves towards helping others to experience the route. You can find them outside of Cerrillos, New Mexico when they’re not out exploring gravel roads across the country.
Gabriel (he/him, Mill City, OR) is the founder and former executive director of the Oregon Timber Trail Alliance. He helped co-found the Oregon Mountain Biking Coalition and is now finding a new way on old ground with Orogenesis. He’s passionate about backcountry trails and long-distance connectivity, and is a staunch believer that outdoor experiences have the power to transform people’s lives.
Noelle (she/her, Baltimore, MD) has built her life and community around bikes adventures and is thrilled to be able to channel that energy full-time leading Bikepacking Roots. She put her amateur route building skills to the test on a 4,200 mile solo bike trip from Baltimore through the Northeast and Maritime Canada. In recent years, she has immersed herself into bikepacking and is eager to support the creation of more opportunities for folks of all identities and skill levels to get out on bikes in wild places. Noelle’s diverse career has ranged from running a small medical non-profit in Guatemala to most recently providing programmatic and operational leadership for a national advocacy initiative at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Noelle has a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.