Bike Transit’s Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Team
By Robin Jones & Alex Semidey
Cinco De Mayo is a celebration of Mexico’s victory of the French in the Battle of Puebla. President Benito Juarez was in a bit of a financial bind and ultimately was forced to default on his debts to the European government.The governments of France, Britain, and Spain (who had colonized different parts of the state) sent troops to Veracruz to demand reimbursement.
OMG! You're driving me crazy! I’m going to pull all of my hair out! Well im sure thats a phrase we've heard all too often. For people with trichotillomania it just being a phrase is sort of a far fetched wish. Trichotillomania ia a compulse disorder that causes people to pull their hair out constantly from anywhere on the body hair can be found. I know your thinking “ Who would really willingly pull their hair out? “ “ Doesn’t that hurt? “. Well I have been fighting against Trichotillomania for about 14 years now and I’m here to answer all of the lingering questions a lot of people have.
Continue reading “Have you ever met a trichster ?”
In response to this article published in Streetsblog USA
The recent events at Starbucks have brought much-needed attention to how implicit bias impacts the lives of people of color every day (I worked at that Starbucks! More on that next month…). In bike share, our customer service team from the beginning has recognized this issue from customer calls and explicitly will not feed the flames of implicit bias from the public.
Subtle overtones of bias related to bike share have been there from the beginning in the US. There are many, many examples of affluent neighborhoods in different cities (New York’s “finest neighborhoods are begrimed by these bikes, ” Washington DC’s Lincoln Park) not wanting bike share stations with implications that it will attract people not wanted there – crime, vandalism, noise.