Hi! I’m Lolly Walsh. I’m a short sleeping schemer, substitute teacher, story listener, sustainability experimenter, room and life rearranger, and brainstormist with BA in history, and a resume as long as a CVS receipt with three returns.
I’ve been car-free for 25 years in cities around the US and worked with nonprofits in San Francisco, Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New Orleans to make it easier and safer for everyone to ride bikes for fun, for health, transportation, or any reason at all.
Need help starting to take transit? Setting up carpools? I can help!
Currently based in Saint Paul, Minnesota but will enthusiastically travel for the right assignments.
Seeing the world from Different Perspectives
I’ve always relished seeing things from a different perspective, which I learned early as a tiny child in gymnastics. I spent as much time upside down as I could, hanging from swing sets and monkey bars, standing on my head, hands, and cartwheeling wherever possible.
I cartwheel across bridges when the streets are closed for marathons, or when my job “open streets for people” like when I worked in San Francisco for the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. Then I trained, recruited, and managed 150 volunteers for an amazing street “closure” every month in San Francisco. I stood on my hands in front of the US Capitol when I met up with the Climate Ride in 2014 and saw Washington, DC in a way most people will never see.
