Deb Hubsmith
Deb Hubsmith
Director
deb@saferoutespartnership.org
Deb has worked on Safe Routes to School advocacy, program implementation and legislative development for 15 years. She started as a grassroots advocate, helping to create Marin County’s successful national pilot program, and assisting with the development of the first state Safe Routes to School program in California. Deb then took the results to the national level where she worked extensively on the campaign to authorize a national Safe Routes to School program for the United States. Funds were allocated by the U.S. Congress in 2005 as part of the federal transportation bill SAFETEA-LU – nearly $1 billion has since been allocated to all 50 states and Washington D.C. for state programs that are resulting in thousands of miles of bicycle and pedestrian facilities and educational programs that support active transportation for children nationwide. Deb is working with the National Partnership staff and their more than 550 partner affiliate organizations to build a national movement by creating and implementing strategies to advance Safe Routes to School, bicycling, and walking through programs, policy change and publicity at local, regional, state and national levels.
Deb serves as an energetic spokesperson for Safe Routes to School, and has testified before Committees of the U.S. Congress on how Safe Routes to School is improving the health of children, communities, and the environment nationwide. She got her start in grassroots transportation advocacy in 1996 after totaling a car; since that time Deb has used a bicycle as her primary means of day-to-day transportation.