Commute Options Team

Brian has lived in Central Oregon since the year 2000 and loves to ride bicycles and work with community. Working for Commute Options since 2008, Brian has learned many techniques for outreaching and engaging community in Central Oregon. Brian works with Oregon Safe Routes to School, ODOT, City of Bend, City of Redmond. He is passionate about creative change and promoting community health, active transportation and a vibrant local economy.

As the Education Program Manager for Commute Options, Whitney educates and encourages Central Oregon children and parents on the benefits and safety of biking and walking to school.

 After receiving a degree in Environmental Studies at University of California Santa Barbara, she pursued sustainability planning at CalPoly San Luis Obispo and received her Masters in City and Regional Planning. Once out of school Whitney resided along the west coast, working as an environmental and land use planner until the mountains and rivers pulled her up to Bend, Oregon.

 Throughout her career she has been an advocate for integrating active transportation through urban design, education, and collaboration.  Whitney has also worked as a wellness educator, working with kids and adults to incorporate more healthy mobility into their daily lives. Working with the SRTS program places Whitney within her passion, where she offers families simple shifts to make in daily transportation habits that can make positive impacts on their lives, the community they live in, and the future of our planet.

Lucy graduated from University of Oregon where she double majored in Environmental Studies and Art and design, she focussed her studies on climate and sustainability issues. Lucy brings a passion for promoting sustainable transportation and excitement for creatively engaging different audiences. She is excited to coordinate our growing vanpool program and share our initiatives, events and accomplishments with the community. In her free time she’ll be skiing and biking around town.

Marshall Greene is best known around Central Oregon as the 7x winner of the Pole, Pedal, Paddle multi-sport race, but he’ll be the first to tell you that has nothing to do with why he joined the Board of Commute Options. Having spent many years as part of the lycra-wearing crowd, first as a cross-country ski racer and then as a bike enthusiast, Marshall spent two years in Madison, WI getting his Masters Degree in Population Health. While there, he learned about how a city’s built environment—in particular, it’s streets—can shape the health of a community by improving its fitness, reducing local pollution, and building social capital. While in Madison, Marshall also learned to love the bike paths of Madison by becoming an avid bike commuter. To all the naysayers who think it is too cold in the winter for active transportation in Central Oregon, Marshall recommends a visit to Madison in January to see the lines of people riding in the cold Wisconsin wind and snow. 

“I want the streets to be safe for my kids to ride their bikes and and to advocate for vulnerable users of the road. As a healthcare data analyst at a community health center (Mosaic Medical), I also see that many of Central Oregon’s most at-risk populations—people experiencing homelessness, who are out-of-work, or physically disabled—are not able to drive and instead rely upon public transportation and biking to get around. By advocating for safer streets with Commute Options, I hope” to help reduce at least one stress for these Central Oregon residents.”