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 board@bicas.org.
Board Application & Position Description
Meet Our Board!*
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.
Elliot DuMont
Elliot is a native Tucsonan who loves exploring Tucson, the Sonoran Desert, and the wider world on two wheels. Elliot graduated with a BA in environmental studies from Pitzer College where he rode for his collegiate cycling team, was a bicycle mechanic educator at his local bicycle co-operative, and worked in various local bike shops. Upon returning home, Elliot worked in his family’s bicycle shop – Roadrunner Bicycles – where he has stayed for the last twelve years, and taken ownership of it. During his time at the family’s business, Elliot utilized the shop and industry connections, a love of Tucson, and desire to get more people on bikes to help provide local organizations and programs with bicycles and labor to educate and equip our community with bicycles. Elliot looks forward to contributing his experience on two wheels to LSA’s vision of creating great streets for everyone.