Michele Herman is a freelance writer who specializes in design and urban issues. She holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. Michele is a regular contributor to Metropolis magazine and other publications, and has written extensively about bicycles and bicycling. For the past decade she has lived, cycled and worked as a community activist in New York City. Michele lives with her husband and their young son in Greenwich Village.

Charles Komanoff has worked for over two decades as a consulting economist and environmental activist to change U.S. energy and transport policy. His research and writing on nuclear reactor costs in the 1970s and 1980s helped steer government and business away from nuclear power and toward energy efficiency. As president of Transportation Alternatives in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Charles helped instill political and ecological consciousness among cycling activists in New York and other cities. He continues to serve the bicycling and auto-free communities as T.A.'s director of research and as senior editor of City Cyclist.

Jon Orcutt, a grassroots environmental organizer since 1985, has been executive director of Transportation Alternatives since 1989. Under his leadership, T.A. has expanded to over 2,000 dues-paying members and become the largest citizens' transportation initiative in North America, campaigning for both pedestrians' and cyclists' rights. Jon has also worked to expand the alternative transportation movement internationally, most notably as an organizer of the Auto-Free Cities Conferences in New York City (1991) and Toronto (1992).

David Perry is part bicycle, part graphic artist. Born in bike-friendly Palo Alto, California, he raced with the U.S. Cycling Team in the 1970s, and studied design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Inspired by the advocacy of Transportation Alternatives, he serves as photo editor of City Cyclist. He has contributed to Velo News and Bicycling, and works with two New York groups promoting human-powered vehicles, Lightwheels and the Center for Appropriate Transport. David's encyclopedic book, Bicycle Culture, will be published by Four Walls Eight Windows (NY) in 1994.