Alisha Myers is committed to helping communities thrive through the Power of Bicycles. For the past ten years, she has served as the Director of Strategic Information and Innovation at World Bicycle Relief, an organization working with underserved communities in Africa and Asia to access bicycle mobility. World Bicycle Relief (WBR) has distributed over 750,000 high-quality and durable bicycles to rural communities across the global South as a sustainable transportation solution. During her tenure, she has designed participatory methods to capture mobility challenges, adopted participatory GIS (PGIS) for mobility planning, and evaluated mobility constraints at the individual, community, and systems levels. Her work has focused on empowering people with bicycle mobility planning, programming, and research, all of which have provided her with deep insights into transportation constraints faced by rural communities. Alisha has worked in social development in Africa and South Asia for over twenty years in research, policy analysis, M&E, learning, and programming. She has a Masters’ degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science and is herself an avid cyclist.
Selected publications or texts
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Using Spatial Data to Understand Rural Mobility
Selected speaking engagements
2024: Africa Transport and Research Conference: ‘From Mobility Poverty to Mobility Security: A systems framework for analysing outcomes among marginalized groups in Kakamega and Zomba’.
2023: BBC The Conversation:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct4tw8
2020: Wheels of Change webinar: https://worldbicyclerelief.org/woc/
2020: Giving Women webinar: How can bicycles impact the last mile?