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
Category: Uncategorized
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Do you rely on the bus? Would you like to make transit work better for your community? In 2025, transit riders in Washington state won an important victory — a piece of legislation which allows 20 transit agencies across Washington State to add transit riders as voting members to their transit boards. Previously, transit agencies…
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October 8, 2025 — We are excited to announce the launch of the Nondrivers Alliance, a new project where those of use who can’t drive or can’t afford to drive can organize for communities that reduce car-dependency. If you can drive or afford a car, you may not understand what it’s like to rely on…
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