Our Board
The BICAS Board of Directors is dedicated to advancing the organization’s mission and overseeing operations to ensure compliance with nonprofit laws, policies, and bylaws. The Board provides fiduciary oversight and collaborates with The BICAS Collective to maintain the organization’s compliance, ethical standards, and financial stability. Together, the Board members contribute their expertise in collectivism, bicycle advocacy, finance, fundraising, and nonprofit governance.
Interested in joining the board?
BICAS is continually seeking dedicated and qualified individuals to contribute significantly to our mission. To apply, please review the board application and position description, then submit your application and resume via email to collective@bicas.org.
Board Application & Position Description
Meet Our Board!*
*those with bios only. BICAS currently has four board members.
M Carlisle
M Carlisle (they/them) – Arizonan-born and raised, they moved to Tucson in 2012 for college and loved Tucson too much to leave. They graduated the University of Arizona late 2017 with a BA in Studio Art and a minor in Gender and Women’s Studies. All throughout college and to the current day they pursued local opportunities by keeping a steadily growing list of resources on hand, especially to direct people in need.
Their North Star and driving passion in life is hands-on art of all kinds, including but not limited to illustration, sculpting, textile arts like weaving and embroidery, painting, and more recently, poetry. For more than a decade they’ve been active as a professional artist, and over 15 years as an illustrator. A runner-up to their affections is the Sonoran Desert, which is a frequent subject and inspiration to their work. Staying car-free and commuting only by bike is just one way they engage in good stewardship of the desert! More recently they’ve answered the call to teach and tutor, and are excited to better serve the community they love.
For fun they love to watch indie horror let’s plays, read comics, and make people laugh!
benji rouse
Benji Rouse (he/they) – Anishinaabe, citizen of the White Earth Ojibwe nation, Ottertail Pillager band – is trained as a youth educator and bicycle mechanic. Born in Seattle, he worked for 13 years as a crisis intervention worker with street-involved and unhoused youth and young adults, eventually getting the bike mechanic bug when he started a bike building and repair project to support youth experiencing urgent transportation issues. Since 2014, he’s worked at community bicycle education nonprofits in Oakland, Minneapolis, and Tucson, coordinating Safe Routes to School programs at LSA(living streets alliance), training people in bicycle mechanics, and facilitating bike trips with youth. For fun he enjoys mountain biking and gravel riding, gardening, playing Magic: The Gathering, and camping.
Cynthia Duncan
Cynthia Duncan (she/her) – Has resided on unceded Native territory in what is now known as southern Arizona for 43 years. In 1985, she got her first accounting job at a now defunct multi-specialty physician practice. She began working in nonprofits for Tucson Medical Center in 1995 when it acquired Group Health Medical Associates. In 1998, Cynthia began her career as a nonprofit Director of Finance at the Southern Arizona Chapter of The American Red Cross Disaster Services. She has served in this role at the Arizona Aerospace Foundation, which runs the Pima Air and Space Museum and the Titan Missile Museum, and Temple Emanu-El. She is currently working at The Haven, a substance use disorder recovery center for women and people identifying as women.
Cynthia does nonprofit accounting! She’s worked with many political campaigns as treasurer and several other nonprofits in temporary roles. Nonprofit workers tend to wear a lot of hats and Cynthia has experience in IT, Volunteer Programs, Development, non-profit Governance, and HR. She served on the Bootstraps to Share dba BICAS board of directors from 2011 – 2016 and served in ex-officio 2017-2023. In August of 2023 she rejoined the Board as Treasurer. Cynthia believes that bicycles are good for children and other living things.