Biking While Black is more than just a mode of transportation; it's a mobility justice movement that celebrates the resilience, strength, and spirit of the Black community is a mobility justice movement that seeks to empower BIPOC bicyclists, dismantle systemic barriers, and reimagine a world where cycling is a source of joy, freedom, and safety for all. Through the power of storytelling, community engagement, and advocacy, Biking While Black is changing the narrative and transforming the cycling landscape.​
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Thank You and acknowledgements
We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to our fiscal sponsor, Social Good Fund, for their continued encouragement, guidance, and steadfast support of our work and vision. Their partnership has helped sustain and strengthen this project through important years of growth, reflection, and community impact.
We also offer deep appreciation to our project donors, Kautz Family Foundation and the Weiss Family Trust, whose belief in the importance of mobility justice, community storytelling, education, and collective wellbeing has helped make this work possible.
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Special thanks as well to our community engagement donation supporters, UC Davis Institute for the Environment, Southern California Association of Governments, and Bicycle Transit Systems, for contributing resources, collaboration, and meaningful partnership opportunities over this past year.
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Finally, we honor the many community-based organizations, advocates, educators, artists, researchers, volunteers, youth leaders, and allies who have walked, ridden, organized, documented, listened, and believed alongside us over the past five years. This work has always been rooted in collective effort, shared vision, and the power of community relationships. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has contributed to helping this project grow into a space of justice, joy, healing, storytelling, education, and movement for Black and BIPOC communities
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Director's Statement
Like the Phoenix that rises from the ashes, Black and BIPOC lives continue to have an unseen connection to the realms of hope and resilience. Some of the key revelations that were spoken of during our interviews were on uplifting and educating our youth to become leaders and navigators in bicycling education and mechanics, safety education, and engagement, paired with mobility justice advocacy. Some of our interviewees even talked on the aspirations of training and mentoring our next Black and Brown bicycling Olympians and cycling professionals. We talked on the need to create more BIPOC-owned bicycling shops and CoOp’s, and on how this would look and operate under a social and mobility justice lens. The collective agreement was that one can’t exist without the other – mobility can’t exist without justice as it relates to the
wellbeing and safety of BIPOC lives. And lastly, from the transportation agency perspective, we spoke on the need for these agencies to invest in acknowledging, hiring, and collaborating with community leaders who have been doing the work to help keep their multi-generational community members safe and informed.
Festivals, AWARDS, AND ACCOLADES
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2023 Official Selection - Imagine This Women's Film Festival
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2023 Official Selection - Black August Film Festival
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2023 Official Selection - Filmed by Bike Film Festival
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2023 Official Selection - The Indianapolis Black Documentary Film Festival
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2023 Official Selection - The Pan African Film Festival
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2023 Official Selection - Black Film Festival of New Orleans
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2023 Official Selection - Seattle Black Film Festival
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2023 Official Selection - SPE Media Festival
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2022 SCAG Go Human Mini-Grant Awardee
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2022 Advancing Diversity and Social Change Award, American Planning Association,
Los Angeles Chapter
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2022 Planning Advocate Award of Excellence, American Planning Association of California
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2022 Communications Initiative Award of Merit, American Planning Association of California
BIKING WHILE BLACK: CONTINUING TO RIDE THROUCH DECRIMINALIZATION, DISENFRANCHISEMENT & GENTRIFICATION was made possible by a mini-grant from Go Human, a project of Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG).