Cynthia Rose is the Director of Santa Monica Spoke and co-founder of the Santa Monica Safe Streets Alliance working to make Santa Monica a safer and better place to live, walk, bike, work and play through community engagement, education and encouragement. She is a dedicated community advocate focused on collaborations to establish policy and infrastructure for safer walking and biking as a means for creating more environmentally sustainable, equitable and healthy communities. In addition to her local advocacy she is current Board Chair of the California Bicycle Coalition and previous board member of the the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition and Sustainable Streets. Cynthia is a certified cycling instructor with the League of American Bicyclists.