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About Us |
Shifting Mobility is a worker-owned social enterprise dedicated to establishing bicycle lending as a familiar feature of work and living environments everywhere for the benefit of human health, quality of life, and the environment.
While Shifting Mobility is organized as a for-profit enterprise, our profits are not measured on a monetary scale. Monetary profits allow us to operate independently of dependency on donor institutions but are simply a tool used in implementing our mission stated above. The true profits of Shifting Mobility are measured by the effectiveness of the programs we have supported using metrics such as offset motor vehicle miles, diversification of local transportation choices, and human life quality indicators.
Owners
Andrew Hall is founder and current sole proprietor of Shifting Mobility, LLC. He graduated from the University of Rochester in December 2007 with a B.S. in Environmental Science and a concentration in International Development and East African culture. While a sophomore in 2004, Andrew co-founded a bike lending program called City Cycles that today forms the primary experience base of Shifting Mobility. After taking a serious business approach to bicycle lending for four years, City Cycles was awarded the 2008 Student-Driven Program of the Year award by the Association for College Unions International.
While serving as director of Shifting Mobility, Andrew is also the manager and technical lead of a partnership project between WorldBike and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme in Kenya. The endeavor is exploring the potential of cargo bicycles to provide income generating opportunities and water and sanitation solutions for low-income people in developing countries.
Andrew’s experience includes positions as: a professional bicycle mechanic, a youth mentoring program coordinator and board member of Second Life Bikes (Rochester, NY), an intern with the Central Body of Kisumu Bicycle Transporters (Kisumu, Kenya), a paid adviser to the University of Rochester's cycling master plan, a bike tour leader, and head counselor at Coyote Hill Mountain Bike Camps (West Fairlee, VT). Andrew also builds and rides his own experimental bicycles, and has been a long-time bicycle commuter.
Honorable Mention
Adam Baratz was co-founder of City Cycles and is owed a huge debt of gratitude for writing the early versions of the Shifting Mobility software. Adam graduated from the University of Rochester in May 2007 with a degree in Music and now works as a Web Applications Engineer for The Echo Nest Corporation.