Ep. 98 ~ Ally Johnson, Bikepacking Roots New Executive Director
Bikes or Death
Patrick Farnsworth
4.8 • 563 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode I get to meet Ally Johnson who is taking the reins over at Bikepacking Roots. She was hired in October, but we wanted to give her a little time to get acquainted with her new role before having her on. Ally brings with her an impressive academic resume. From Bikepacking Roots, "Ally has a master's degree in Policy, Organization, and Leadership from Stanford University, undergraduate work in nonprofit leadership, and last taught US history and civics at the high school level. Ally was chosen from a large candidate pool of highly qualified individuals, a testament to the passion and diversity of experiences in the bikepacking community."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends, and welcome back to the Bikes or Death podcast. As always, my name is Patrick, |
| 0:05.5 | and I'm your host. And on today's episode, we have the new executive director for bike |
| 0:10.8 | packing routes, Allie Johnson. She was recently hired by Kurt and Kate to help run the show |
| 0:18.8 | over there, but Kurt and Kate aren't going anywhere. Kate, I believe, |
| 0:22.5 | is staying in her original position, and Kurt is moving more in the direction of route building. |
| 0:28.4 | So we'll be looking forward to the routes that he has coming out for us. And in fact, |
| 0:35.0 | we talk about some of the projects that they have coming out on this episode, |
| 0:39.7 | as well as all the initiatives that bikepacking routes does to support the bikepacking |
| 0:45.7 | community and grow the bikepacking community. |
| 0:48.5 | To me, they are one of the most important organizations for our community. |
| 0:53.5 | And I'm really grateful that Allie was able to come |
| 0:56.2 | on the podcast today and just introduce herself to us, give us an idea of what they have going |
| 1:03.5 | on at bikepacking routes, what some of her goals are, and how we can support their efforts |
| 1:09.8 | and strengthen this community and grow this community. |
| 1:13.6 | So thank you, Ali, for coming on today's episode. |
| 1:16.6 | I really enjoyed getting to meet you, and I'm looking forward to everything that you all |
| 1:20.8 | have coming down the pipeline over at bikepacking routes. |
| 1:24.5 | All right, friends, well, a little bit of news. |
| 1:26.9 | Today is going to be the last |
| 1:28.7 | episode of the year. Episode 98. Can you believe it? I never thought in a million years that we would |
| 1:38.1 | be encroaching 100 episodes on the Bikes for Death podcast, but here we are. And we're looking to take a pause at the end |
| 1:45.9 | this year for a few reasons and get geared up for next year. If you'd like to hear a little bit more |
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