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FRANK MORITZ President
Adventure Cycling Life Member Frank Moritz grew up in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Loyola College, Duquesne University, and Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He first joined our organization 25 years ago, he said, “after reading an article in the Washington Post about a local family’s cross-country bike tour, in which they cited then-Bikecentennial as their source of information and inspiration.” He has become one of Adventure Cycling’s most active and experienced tour leaders and training instructors since retiring in 1997 from a 25-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. And what a career he had. During his tenure with the CIA, Frank served as a senior analyst, editor and researcher, as well as holding senior managerial and staff positions, including tours of duty as the agency’s representative to a major U.S. military command and to the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center. Frank was elected to the Board in 2007. He now lives near Denver, Colorado, and is in the midst of an active second career that includes traveling, freelance technical writing, ski instructing at Copper Mountain, whitewater boating, and leading bicycle tours. His wife of more than 40 years, Pat, shares his love of the outdoors, and together they enjoy camping trips and riding on their tandem bike.
CAROL YORK Vice President
Carol lives on the Lewis and Clark Bicycle Route in the heart of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. She is an elected Hood River County commissioner and serves on many regional boards and committees. Carol has degrees from St. Lawrence University and the University of Washington. She and her husband, Pete Fotheringham, own Gorge Publishing, Inc., where they publish the popular Gorge Guide® and other regional publications. Carol and Pete were married on windsurfers, and both have been North American champions. A former director of the U.S. Windsurfing Association, Carol is also an avid alpine and cross-country skier, and enjoys many outdoor sports such as hiking and sea kayaking. Other interests include travel, learning foreign languages, cooking, and eating. (She says, "The farther I ride, the more I can eat!"). Favorite cycling expeditions have been multiweek trips in Austria, Switzerland, Portugal, Great Britain, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Eastern Europe, Northern Italy, and the Canadian Maritimes, plus many shorter trips in the Northwest. Future travel plans include hiking the Grand Canyon and bicycling in Southwest China.
ANNA GINN Secretary
Anna M. Ginn is Senior Director, Development and Communications at Synergos, an international NGO dedicated to reducing poverty and inequity through leadership development and the promotion of partnerships that bridge economic and social divides.
Prior to joining Synergos in late 2006, she was Vice President for Development and Communications at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) with responsibility for marketing and for annual fundraising of over $55 million. LISC invests over one billion dollars annually in low-income communities and is the largest national organization supporting community-based development. Anna was the Senior Development Officer for Coastal Enterprises, Inc., a 25-year-old community development corporation/community development financial institution headquartered in Maine. While at CEI, Anna helped found two venture capital funds to invest in socially responsible businesses. From 1984 to 1995, she was Publisher of Maine Times, Maine's only issues-oriented statewide newsweekly. She received her MA from the University of Minnesota and BA from Mount Holyoke College. Anna went on Cycle Montana in 1999 and has been hooked on our trips ever since.
ANDREW HUPPERT Treasurer
Andrew Huppert is a Montana native who is considered one of Montana's leading attorneys in recreational and adventure law liability. Andy's expertise is highly valuable in helping Adventure Cycling stay on top of the legal landscape and the field of recreational law. Andy and his family moved to Missoula in 2003 and immediately became obsessed with the remarkable mountain biking Missoula has to offer. While road biking is also on Andy’s menu, he loves promoting the unique challenges and joys that only climbing a spectacular 10,000 foot summit on your two-wheeled companion (without cars on your tail) can provide. Andy is also an avid skier, golfer, photographer, musician and writer. He lives in Missoula with his wife Polly and 7 year old son Matthew, as well as numerous dogs, cats and horses.
ANDY BAUR
Andy Baur found Adventure Cycling in 1993 while planning a bike trip through central Europe. “I am really excited to serve the organization that essentially changed my life with hopes that others will find the same inspiration from bicycle travel that I did.” Working in bicycle and pedestrian facility planning provided the foundation for his current job as executive director of Prickly Pear Land Trust in Helena, Montana. Andy has learned the value of building partnerships and community support to address the challenges that face Western towns. His job also includes assisting local government to maintain and develop Helena’s superb 60-mile system of hiking and biking trails. Andy and his wife Betsy have toured in Europe and South America, “but our most memorable was right out our back door through central Montana.” Now, with a young daughter, they are getting quite familiar with rail trails in the area. The Baur family is a life member of Adventure Cycling.
JENNIFER GARST
Jennifer Garst has been an Adventure Cycling fan since the early 1990s when she wandered the U.S. for over a year on a solo bicycle tour and shortly thereafter participated in Adventure Cycling’s North Star trip to Alaska. More recently, Jennifer relied on Adventure Cycling maps when she moved via bicycle from Washington, DC, to her home state of Iowa. “Adventure Cycling is wonderful. It has always provided me with the resources I need to feel safe as I travel by bicycle.” Jennifer, formerly an assistant professor of communications, is the Gift Planning Manager at Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa. She serves on several non-profit and for-profit boards. “I am sought after as a board member because I can raise money, read a financial sheet, and make sure that the organization remains mission-driven. These are
skills that I hope to use as a board member of Adventure Cycling.”
DAN P. HUNGATE
Dan grew up in Pullman, Washington, graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School, and practiced law in Seattle, Washington, until his retirement in 2000. As a college student, he cycled through Europe and then became a serious long-distance cyclist in the early 1990s, starting with the Seattle to Portland ride (STP). This was soon followed by his introduction to Adventure Cycling when he participated in Cycle Montana. Many trips followed, and immediately upon retirement he rode across the U.S. from Seattle to Washington, DC, with the American Lung Association. The word in Adventure Cycling Association’s mission statement that maintains his interest at a high level is “inspires,” followed closely by the “fun.” Many other admirable traits are associated with traveling by bicycle, but staying focused on those two words is the best objective he sees for maintaining the role of Adventure Cycling Association as America’s greatest cycling organization.
JEFFREY MILLER
Jeff is the President / CEO of the Alliance for Biking & Walking, the coalition of over 140 state/province and local bicycle and pedestrian organizations across North America. Prior to assuming this position in early 2008 and moving to Washington D.C., Jeff was the Executive Director of the Bicycle Coalition of Maine for nearly 12 years. He has been an avid supporter of Adventure Cycling Association since 1990 when he combined three different ACA routes to do a 5,000+ mile solo tour across the United States. In 1992-1993 Jeff bike toured through 15 countries on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, studying and experiencing firsthand the bicycle infrastructure and policies in Japan, China, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, and much of Europe. That fourteen-month around-the-world bike tour served as a significant part of his early education in bicycle advocacy, policy, and infrastructure design. In addition to using his bike year-round for transportation and obviously enjoying bike touring, Jeff loves to ride on his Maine-made Aegis and competes in road races and triathlons. Now a Life Member and major donor and volunteer board member Jeff says, “I love working with Adventure Cycling and its mission to inspire people to travel by bicycle because it is the best way to explore places, meet great people, and connect to the world as a whole.”
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