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

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