D-L received her BA in Comparative Literature from William Smith College and has completed the Institute for Women in Higher Education at Bryn Mawr and the Leadership Philadelphia program. She was named one of Philadelphia’s 101 Connectors in 2006.

Ryan is the Executive Director of Cadence Cycling Foundation (CCF), which was founded in 2007, with the support of Jay Snider, Cadence Cycling & Multisport owner and former President of the Philadelphia Flyers. CCF is a non-profit organization with a mission to Help Kids Create Opportunities through Cycling. CCF helps Philadelphia youth between the ages of 9 and 18 discover the possibilities that the sport of cycling has to offer and helps develop life skills, goal setting, self-esteem, teamwork and commitment.

The Cadence Cycling Foundation has also developed the Cadence College ConneXion (CCC) to help kids transfer all of the positive traits developed through cycling into a successful college planning, preparation and application process. To develop the CCC program, the Cadence Cycling Foundation initiated a strategic relationship with JEVS Human Services Career Strategies, one of the largest private nonprofit organizations in the Delaware Valley that focuses on education and training, to provide customized programs for our kids, including SAT tutoring, college admissions counseling and financial aid advising.

Working together, the CCF cycling coaches and academic mentors provide resources, guidance, and support to students throughout high school and in the college preparation process. CCF is deeply committed to changing the lives of youth in the Philadelphia region. For more information on the Cadence Cycling Foundation, visit www.cadencefoundation.org.

Kristin Gavin

Kristin Gavin is the director and founder of Gearing Up, a nonprofit bike program whose mission is to provide women in transition from drug and alcohol addiction, domestic violence, and/or homelessness with the guidance, skills, and equipment to safely ride a bicycle for exercise, transportation and personal growth.

Gavin moved to Philadelphia from Seattle three years ago to complete her Master’s of Exercise and Sport Psychology at Temple University. While completing her graduate studies Gavin started a fitness program at Interim House, a residential women’s recovery home in the Mt. Airy 3 neighborhood of Philadelphia. Kristin has extensive knowledge of the psychological impact of exercise, potential barriers to exercise, safe bicycling practices, and experience working with an at-risk population. Gavin also currently works as a research fellow for the Safe Routes to School National Partnership, an organization that advocates for and promotes the practice of safe bicycling and walking to and from schools throughout the United States.

Prior to entering graduate school, Gavin spent four seasons working as a tour guide. Over the course of four years Kristin guided trips throughout the Pacific Northwest and Southwest and completed self-supported bicycle tours across Cuba and Vietnam. Currently, Gavin is a member Team Cystic Fibrosis (www.teamcf.org), an elite women’s cyclocross and mountain bike team.

For the past 8 years Dr. Caldwell has served as a professor and coordinator of the Educational Administration program at Temple University. Prior to assuming her faculty responsibilities she held a wide variety of administrative posts including Director of Career Programs at Fraser Valley College; Dean of Mathematics, Physical Sciences and Technology at Community College of Philadelphia; Campus Executive Officer of Penn State Mont Alto; and, most recently, Vice President, Dean of Temple University Ambler, and Acting Provost of Temple University.

She has continued her research interests throughout her academic career, writing on access and opportunity for under-represented groups in higher education, faculty careers and development, women’s leadership, science related curriculum, and accreditation. Dr. Caldwell earned a BA and MSW from the University of British Columbia and a PhD in Higher Education Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Killingsworth is currently a Senior Advisor at Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) in Newark, Delaware. NHPS is a division of Nemours, an operating foundation that supports one of the nation's largest pediatric health care and health promotion systems. In this capacity, he oversees the strategic and operational integration of core business processes related to program development and implementation so NHPS can achieve its mission – to make Delaware’s children the healthiest in the nation.

Allison is a national planning team contributor for the National Activity Plan, Comprehensive School Physical Activity Plan, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Plan, and Children and Nature Strategies for Recreation and Healthcare.

She is also Founder and CEO of achievABILITY where she provides consultation to public and private organizations working to improve nutrition and physical activity policies and practices among varied target audiences including state policy makers, school districts, child care organizations, parents, teens, and youth. Allison currently works with the National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity to lead implementation of the nation’s first Physical Activity Plan.

Dr. Schwarz was an active researcher in the area of adolescent risk behaviors for over 22 years, and received both public and private funding for work that has examined the issues of injury and its prevention in urban, minority communities, public policy approaches to adolescent violence, and physician- and nurse-practice-based interventions to improve outcomes for high-risk infants. Dr. Schwarz served for four years as President of the Board of Directors of Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth, has been a member of the Governing Council of the American Public Health Association, and is a Board member of numerous local and regional community agencies.

Dr. Schwarz is a graduate of Brown University where is received an AB in Biology. He received an MD and MPH in Health Care Organization, and an MBA in Health Care Administration at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Simmons serves as the Co-Director of Thomas Jefferson University’s Global Health Task Force which includes collaborative faculty and student education and research. Dr. Simmons’ professional background and research interests include community health education; health promotion and disease prevention; reducing individual, community, system and environmental risk factors in obesity prevention, tobacco control, and injury control, and eliminating health inequities.

Dr. Simmons has over thirty-five years of experience working in state and local government, internationally in Latin America, voluntary health organizations, private foundations, private business, health care, and more recently in academia. Dr. Simmons has extensive experience in 1 working with collaborative health networks and coalitions on strategic planning, program planning, implementation, and evaluation, policy development and health advocacy. Prior to coming to Jefferson, Dr. Simmons was on the faculty at the Drexel University School of Public Health. Dr. Simmons’ academic credentials include a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a Master’s of Public Health from Loma Linda University School of Public Health, and a Doctorate in Public Health in Community Health Sciences from the UCLA School of Public Health.