Nondrivers Alliance
Moving our communities beyond car dependency
Leadership
Executive Director and Lead Organizer: Anna Zivarts
As a visually impaired parent and author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency (Island Press, 2024), Zivarts believes that through building the nondriver movement, we can reduce car-dependency. Zivarts launched the Week Without Driving in 2021 and is a member of the Transportation’s Research Board’s Committee on Public Health.
Director of Coalition Building, Ruth Rosas
Chicago-based bilingual organizer Ruth Rosas led the national expansion of Week Without Driving and Freedom to Move at America Walks and brings over 15 years of experience advancing mobility justice. Their background includes leading public health, walkability, and transportation equity initiatives at Lurie Children’s Hospital and serving in the U.S. Peace Corps in Fiji, where they helped create a youth cycling cooperative promoting sustainable transportation and climate resilience.
Updates and Posts
Fiscal Sponsor: Alliance for a Just Society
For people who can grab their keys and drive where they need to go, transportation often isn’t a major concern. But for those of us who can’t drive or can’t afford to (over a third of the US population) transportation is something we think about daily.
We care deeply about accessibility because it can make the difference between getting to do the things that connect us to our communities, like running errands, seeing a friend, or getting to an appointment — or being stuck at home and isolated. It’s time to tap into our expertise.
Nondrivers Alliance is a grassroots organizing and capacity building project that taps into the power, expertise and passion of nondrivers to create communities that reduce our car-dependency.
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