Staff

Dave Snyder
Executive Director

Dave was hired in January 2011 to lead CBC after serving as board president. He is a long-time organizer and advocate for socially just transportation and land-use policies. He rides his bike for most trips in his home city of San Francisco, including frequent weekend camping trips. He’s become very fond of the Capitol Corridor commuter train between San Francisco and Sacramento, and of biking and walking around the State Capitol.

His bicycle advocacy began in 1991, when he served as the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, where he built the organization from a handful of members to a powerhouse of 4,500 members. He left in 2002 to found Transportation for a Livable City. Before coming to the California Bicycle Coalition, first as board president and now as the executive, he served as an organizational development specialist for the Thunderhead Alliance (now the Alliance for Biking & Walking) and also as the director of Transportation Policy for a San Francisco-based think tank.

He is appointed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the board of directors of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway & Transportation District.

He was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in its suburbs of New Carrollton, Maryland and Woodbridge, Virginia. He received a BA in politics, magna cum laude, from St. Andrews Presbyterian College.

Jim Brown
Communications Director

On the Foresthill Bridge, the nation's third tallest bridge, 731 ft above the North Fork of the American River near Auburn, CA.

Jim joined CBC as Communications Director in July 2007. He’s been a Sacramento-based writer and editor for 30 years, much of it focused on public policy issues as diverse as land use, transportation, corrections, health care and agriculture. He got his start in Sacramento right out of college as a policy intern at the Governor’s Office of Planning & Research during Jerry Brown’s second term as governor — back when every state building had free loaner bikes for employees parked out front!

An around-town bicyclist for many years and now almost entirely car-free, Jim loves the way bicycling helps him slow down and pay attention what’s going on around him. He has a B.A. in English from U.C. Berkeley.