Get in touch with Megan Ramey
Do you want to volunteer, need a bike or have a concern that prevents your student from biking or walking to school?
megan.ramey@hoodriver.k12.or.us
About the Safe Routes to School Manager
Megan Ramey finds herself as the Safe Routes to School Manager of Hood River County after 15+ years of kid-centric transportation advocacy. She was born in Madison and experienced a diverse childhood as both a free-range kid in northern Wisconsin and a teen in the Atlanta suburb of Peachtree City, known for its golf cart paths. Her life change moments were totaling her car and putting her bike on the bus at University of Georgia, and later, seeing her environment through a mother’s eyes in Boston, then ranked 5 worst in the world for biking. With an infant in tow, she walked, transited and biked for travel and transportation and told her stories at community meetings to demand better infrastructure. Founding Bikabout, a 2-wheeled travel site, was her way of journaling the World’s best biking experiences. Wanting her daughter to have the same outdoor, free-range childhood that she had, the family moved to Hood River. In October 2020, her daughter's elementary school principal, Kelly Beard, was concerned with Covid and traffic congestion and took her up on the offer to start a bike train, igniting a cultural sea change of kids walking and biking to school. 4 years and $12 million in funding later, she finds herself passionate about safe routes to school demonstration projects, engaging youth and families in planning processes and using school bike buses, after school clubs and PE field trips to bring the joy and community into walking and biking education.
Megan , her husband, Kyle, and their daughter, Annika, have been walking and rolling around The Heights, where they live, since 2016. Prior to moving to Hood River, she was a member of the Boston Bikes Advisory group to the Mayor, Cambridge Bike Committee and LivableStreets. She is currently the Vice Chair of Columbia Area Transit (CAT).In August of 2022, she went through the training and testing to become a League of America Cyclists Certified Instructor to teach transportation biking to kids and adults. She has an MBA from University of Wisconsin-Madison and an undergrad degree in Fashion.
