Jose was born in a small town in Aguascalientes, Mexico. He grew up there until his family relocated to the Inland Empire in Southern California. He started his first bicycle club in high school as he and his friends navigated the streets of Riverside and San Bernardino County. Jose went on to major in Chicano/a Studies at UCLA while also minoring in Education, Labor Studies and Urban Planning. While volunteering at the UCLA community school in Koreatown, Jose discovered his passion for teaching and eventually went on to receive his Master’s in Education from UCLA. After teaching in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Jose settled in Santa Maria. Today, you can find Jose bicycling to work where he teaches Spanish and History or bicycling to Bici Centro. Jose hopes to promote alternative forms of transportation and improve infrastructure for a more sustainable and healthier Santa Maria.

Sage is a Santa Barbara native with a long history of environmental proactivity that began while attending the Open Alternative Elementary School. His love of bike riding began when he was young as a means of transportation then as a form of adventure and pleasure. He recently earned a Master’s Degree in Environmental Science and Management, specializing in energy and climate, from the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. His thesis investigated renewable microgrid deployment on US tribal lands. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis, specializing in energy and mechanical design, worked for ten years with small manufacturing companies designing and fabricating equipment used to make prototype solar panels and twelve years at the Bren School as the Director of R & D Engineering and Building Systems. He considers himself an “applied engineer” that designs and fabricates solutions to solve problems. For the last 20 years Sage has been a key production staff member of the CEC Santa Barbara Earth Day Green Car Show, educating the community about alternative transportation. Sage joined MOVE to support advancing our mission of equitable countywide sustainable transportation infrastructure.

Michael is an inactive CPA, who began his career as an auditor at PwC. Motivated by a desire to build a more human experience for people at work, he made a career shift into leadership development and People Operations. He spent a decade helping to scale companies in Silicon Valley, including Facebook and Stripe, as they grew from 250 to 15,000 employees. In 2019, he moved to Santa Barbara to lead the Corporate Services function at the Hudson Institute of Coaching, a nearly 40 year old local company that provides leadership training to thousands of individuals at hundreds of organizations globally every year. Michael is on the board of the Santa Barbara Running Association, which has been promoting youth running and fostering community locally for over 60 years. He has an MBA from Berkeley Haas, MS in Accounting, and numerous HR and leadership development certifications. He loves to move, whether that is riding his bicycle on multi-day charity fundraising events or commuting around Santa Barbara. He has run across the Grand Canyon and completed 19 marathons.

Kristen dedicates her days to environmental conservation as Senior Director of the Environmental Defense Center's Marine Program. She grew up in Northern California exploring the Sierra Nevada and moved to Santa Barbara to attend UCSB where she studied exercise science and geography, joined the triathlon team, worked as a bike mechanic is Hazard's Cyclesports and recevied her Masters in Environmental Science and Management. As a passionate environmentalist, Kristen looks forward to the day when our community will be free of oil and gas development, have more bikes than cars, and boast a sustainable and efficient public transit system. Kristen also serves as the Chair and Conservation Member of the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council.

Benjamin was born and raised in Santa Maria. After graduation from Pioneer Valley, he went to UC Berkeley where he studied city planning. Although he ended up in a career as a software engineer, his interest has always remained improving the community around him. As a member of MOVE, he hopes to continue to improve the Santa Maria community by advocating for first class pedestrian, cycling, and transit infrastructure.

John works at Flir as a Sr. Reliability Project Engineer while on the side addressing Floating Offshore Wind Energy needs. John's personal love of bicycles began when he and his sister saved up enough allowance at age 9 to buy their first 10-speed from the local variety drug store. During his paperboy days, he earned enough to get a top-of-the-line BMX racing bike and race. While attending UCSB, he was on the team that designed, built and competed on a recumbent aerodynamic fast human powered vehicle. Today, he bikes to work and around town, bikes with his family, and belongs to a mountain biking group. John began as an education volunteer with MOVE in 2012 and is excited to join in on the fun and challenge of helping MOVE continue to move forward.

Loren Butler is the proprietor of Lompoc Bike Works. A Santa Barbara native, Loren’s first memory in life is of riding a wave on his dad’s surfboard at Haskell's Beach, and he spent his formative years pedaling around Goleta on his beloved blue Schwinn Stingray. After developing an educational software company, Loren spent nearly a decade in South America as a mountaineering guide, where he also served as Executive Director of the South American Explorers’ Club and worked closely with indigenous families on homebuilding projects in Huaraz, Peru. A stint as Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity in Estes Park, Colorado was followed by a return to the Central Coast to grow grapes and make wine. His lifelong passion for cycling led him to open Bike Works in 2020, and Loren is both deeply honored to be part of MOVE and highly stoked to help increase bike ridership and improve cycling infrastructure in northern Santa Barbara County.

Richard's childhood was spent in rural Cornwall, UK, where he biked backcountry lanes, rain or shine, to get to school and visit friends. He continued bike commuting at Cambridge and was car-free during 7 years living in London - where he enjoyed everything the city had to offer by foot, tube and bike. After a visit and meeting his future wife, he moved to Santa Barbara. His first job was working as a Park Aide at El Capitan and Refugio State Beaches, including an “interesting” cycle-commute on the 101 every day. He currently bike-commutes from Noleta to his office at Cappello & Noel LLP where he works as an attorney.