Today Bikemore says goodbye to our beloved colleague Danielle Parnes. Danielle joined Bikemore in the Fall of 2016, and this year will be heading to graduate school at UCLA to study transportation planning. You can read Danielle’s farewell in her own words here. While it would be impossible to summarize the impact she has had on our organization, we wanted to share our deep appreciation for her and her work with the broader Bikemore community.
From design and communications, to programming and events, every time you interacted with Bikemore online or in person, Danielle’s creativity and talent was behind it. She has cultivated countless relationships in the community fostering our ability to serve as many people as possible. She elevated our work, ensuring that everything we did was polished and professional.
She joined Bikemore when it was still very young. She helped put in place so many systems of operation that have allowed us to grow as an organization. Every spark of an idea we had, Danielle brought it into existence in a way far beyond what we could have ever imagined.
In the past year she served as mentor and supervisor to our two newest staff members Menelik and Clarissa. She’s been a trusted partner when frustrations arise, and always has an ability to reflect back the true meaning of our work--joy. Biking is a wonderful expression of joy. It connects us to our City and the people we love. And it is through biking that we got to meet Danielle.
She is going to bring so much to the field of transportation planning. She has been our guiding light helping to ensure we critically examine our work through a lens of equity, and it is that perspective that is most needed when designing our public spaces.
We invite you to join us in expressing our thanks and well wishes. We have created an online card for folks to sign, write a note, or share photos. You can see that here.
To Danielle, we are so grateful you chose Baltimore to be your home these past few years. We are all better for it.
With love,
Liz, Jed, Menelik, and Clarissa