{"id":562959,"date":"2010-04-22T19:02:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-dorothy-le-los-angeles-bicycle-coalition-earth-day-40-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:02:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T23:02:28","slug":"dorothy-le","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/562959","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Le"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Grist <\/p>\n<p>\n.series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;}\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Art: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natdamm.com\" >Nat Damm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nDorothy Le<\/p>\n<p>Planning and Policy Director, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition<br \/> Los Angeles, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Le wants to get you out and about on two wheels. Not sure where to start? Watch her&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yIZnENhv-W0\" id=\"thsc\" title=\"series\">series<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gEfT82thPp0\" id=\"g9fp\" title=\"of\">of<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PkTsREcQY6U&amp;NR=1\" id=\"nhgw\" title=\"videos\">videos<\/a>&nbsp;on how to find the bike that&#8217;s right for you. At the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/la-bike.org\/\" id=\"f2b0\" title=\"Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition\">Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition<\/a>,<br \/>\nshe works to make the archetypal car-obsessed city more welcoming to<br \/>\ncyclists and to make the cycling community more welcoming to women and<br \/>\npeople of color. Le has organized community bike tours, women&#8217;s<br \/>\nbicycle rides, safety workshops, a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ladowntownnews.com\/articles\/2009\/09\/22\/news\/doc4ab42ee68c296014473184.txt\" id=\"gv20\" title=\"bicycle count\">bicycle count<\/a>. While a student at UCLA, she led&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=2200872315\" id=\"i0ty\" title=\"E3: Ecology, Economy, Equity\">E3: Ecology, Economy, Equity<\/a>, an environmental and social-justice organization, and helped launch the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usac.ucla.edu\/tgif\/\" id=\"p5cb\" title=\"Green Initiative Fund\">Green Initiative Fund<\/a>, a grant-making fund for sustainability projects on the UCLA campus.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lacbc\" style=\"display:block; background:url(\/i\/assets\/2\/twitter_20x20.png) 0 0 no-repeat; height:20px; padding-left:25px; padding-top:2px\">Follow the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Watch a video about Le&#8217;s bike activism:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/earthday40\">more people who are redefining green<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-anita-maltbia-green-impact-zone-earth-day-40-people\"><strong>Next &raquo;<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-05-does-sustainable-transportation-mean-better-cars-or-fewer-cars\/\">Does &#8216;sustainable transportation&#8217; mean better cars or fewer cars?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-04-energy-transportation-and-land-use-patterns\/\">Green cars do not make green cities<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-04-away-from-the-oil-spill-signs-of-local-progress\/\">Away from the oil spill, signs of local progress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=a5a510e3620ca11d3d290cb10330fe56&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=a5a510e3620ca11d3d290cb10330fe56&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=News&#038;rtv=p29804&#038;rtv=f18590\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29804.rss.News.18590,cat.News.rss\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grist .series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;} Art: Nat Damm Dorothy Le Planning and Policy Director, Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition Los Angeles, Calif. Dorothy Le wants to get you out and about on two wheels. Not sure where to start? Watch her&nbsp;series&nbsp;of&nbsp;videos&nbsp;on how to find the bike that&#8217;s right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}