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Every two years, the American Planning Association Transportation Planning Division publishes the State of Transportation Planning Report with the intention of highlighting innovative ideas, cutting-edge research, and interesting experiments in transportation planning in the United States. As part of the 2022 edition of the report - titled “Intersections + Identities: A Radical Rethinking of Our Transportation Experiences" - we're bringing you a series of critical conversations with pioneers and industry leaders across the US who are offering their insights into some of the most challenging issues facing our field. In this podcast episode, we'll hear from Olatunji Oboi Reed, who serves as the founding President & CEO of Equiticity, a racial equity movement, operationalizing for racial equity, increased mobility, and racial justice to improve the lives of Black and Brown people across the United States. He discusses emerging research on the ways in which a neighborhood's infrastructure can have an impact on reducing violence, and how Equiticity's Mobility Rituals are increasing social cohesion and collective efficacy through bike rides, neighborhood walking tours, and public transit excursions. Episode URL: https://planning.org/podcast/critical-conversations-in-transportation-planning-olatunji-oboi-reed/

Neighborhood walking tours, group bike rides, and organized strolls in the park aren't typically thought of as front-line strategies to break a city's dependence on automobiles. Some advocates argue that without events like them, though, U.S. neighborhoods will never transform into truly people-centered places — particularly in socially and racially marginalized communities.  On this episode of The Brake, host Kea Wilson sits down with Olatunji Oboi Reed, president and CEO of Equiticity, to talk about what he and his colleagues calls "community mobility rituals," or regular, free, hyper-local events that dismantle barriers to sustainable transportation and build the social infrastructure that neighborhoods need. Along the way, we chat about what makes a "mobility ritual" different than your standard-issue Critical Mass ride, why white-dominated transportation authorities tend to overlook the power of community programs, and how mobility rituals might be integrated into the planning process itself.  Listen in, check out Equiticity's webinar series on community mobility rituals here.   

California's Department of Transportation has been driver-centric until now, but with a new Complete Streets policy and active transportation advocates in the lead, it may be a new agency. CalTrans Deputy Director for Sustainability Tony Dang fields questions from Bike East Bay Advocacy Director Dave Campbell. With Bike Talk cohost Lindsay Sturman. Then- the mobility focus of racial equity organization Equiticity is explained by its President, Olatunji Oboi Reed, in conversation with guest host John Greenfield, co-editor of Chicago Streetsblog.

As a highly functional sufferer of depression, Olatunji Oboi Reed needed an outlet for himself to heal-- ultimately finding a form of therapy one day when he decided to take his bike out for a ride for the first time in years; finding joy in the wind and sun around him. He developed  a passion for cycling and in the process he found that there were significant inequalities  as far as safe mobility in black and brown neighborhoods.  Oboii decided he needed to join the fight for racial equity, through the means of increasing safe mobility in these neighborhoods. Episode Highlights: How cycling became a part of his therapy during his time of depression  His drive and motivation for cycling How he worked through his depression Getting help with his mental health and the sigma that can be associated with mental illness Mobility issues for Black and Brown people across the US His project to address the mobility issues of minorities Guest Bio: Olatunji Oboi Reed’s passion is deeply rooted in community, culture, and health. As a racial equity technician, he works globally with other organizations to bring racial justice and increase mobility around the world. Given his background in management and corporate, he is able to build a whole team of diverse individuals, all working together to achieve racial equality and mobile justice in the city of Chicago. He was the  co-founder and served as the President & CEO of Slow Roll Chicago. Slow Roll Chicago was a spin-off of the Slow Roll rides that started in Detroit. Slow Roll Chicago,  purpose is to ride bicycles to make  black/brown neighborhoods better. Slow Roll Chicago’s vision is equal bicycle usage across the City of Chicago with respect to race, income and neighborhood. The vision was bicycles as a form of effective transportation, contributing to reducing violence, improving health, creating jobs and ultimately making black/brown neighborhoods more livable  Oboi was awarded The White House Transportation Champion of Change award by The White House and the United States Department of Transportation, under President Obama.  He is currently the founding president and CEO of Equicity, his main outlet to manifest his social justice passions for equal mobility for all-- targeted mainly at uplifting the lives of Black and Brown people across the United States. Equiticity vision is a city where racial equality is integrated at the policy and legislative levels. He envisions Equiticity creating a US city that serves as a model for the rest of the world on how to normalize, prioritize, and operationalize racial equality in terms of resources.  Connect with Olatunji Oboi Reed:   Instagram  Olatunji Oboi Reed (@theycallmeOboi) | Twitter Equiticity | Website Did you enjoy today’s episode? Please subscribe and leave a review. If you have questions, comments, or possible show topics, email runningischeaperthantherapyolb@gmail.com. To subscribe and review use one links of links below  Apple Spotify Google  Get a copy of the book  Running Is Cheaper Than Therapy: A Journey Back to Wholeness

In Chicago, racial disparities run deep. A history of redlining, disinvestment, and movement of jobs to the suburbs have resulted in disparate life outcomes for Black and white residents. In transportation, this has manifested in longer transit commutes for Black residents, and a disproportionate number of cycling tickets given out in Black and brown neighborhoods, among other ways. Olatunji Oboi Reed is CEO & President of The Equiticity Racial Equity Movement. Based in Chicago, Equiticity advocates for mobility justice for Black, Brown, and Indigenous people of color. In this episode, Oboi discusses how Equiticity is tackling barriers to transportation access by collecting data about existing barriers, and developing legislation and policies that will codify and track the equitable distribution of resources across the city. “The root cause of all injustice experienced by Black, Brown and Indigenous people in our society is structural racism. Our oppression was and is by design. The most important work we must do is the dismantling of structural racism and the building of a society where Black, Brown and Indigenous people thrive. For those organizations that have still not arrived. A reckoning is required.”To learn more about The Equiticity Racial Equity Movement, click here.For more on TransitCenter, visit us here.Disclaimer: Political views raised by guests on the podcast do not reflect the views of TransitCenter.Music: “Comma” - Blue Dot SessionsHosted and edited by Kapish SinglaProduced by TransitCenter

Black Kids in Outer Space interviews Olatunji Oboi Reed. Reed's passions are community, culture and health. He works internationally as a tactician, strategist, mobility advocate, community development practitioner and community organizer in the fields of bicycle equity, transportation justice and access to mobility in marginalized communities of color. Oboi serves as the President & CEO of Equiticity, a national advocacy movement operating at the intersection of equity, mobility and justice in communities of color across the US. Equiticity’s vision is a large US city where equity is fully integrated at the policy level into every function, department and resource associated with the City’s operations, services and programs. Oboi co-founded and recently served as the President & CEO of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement. Slow Roll Chicago is working to build an equitable, diverse and inclusive bicycle culture in Chicago, by organizing community bicycle rides and advocating for bicycle equity. In 2015, Oboi was awarded The White House Transportation Champion of Change award by The White House and the United States Department of Transportation.

Erisa Apantaku interviews Sol Patches - gender abolitionist and musicmaker from the South and West Sides - along with collaborator Chaski So, about their newest album "Garden City." During the hour we also share some listeners' New Year's wishes and resolutions. Later, hosts Olivia Obineme and Erisa Apantaku interview writer Hanna Addis about her upcoming piece on Olatunji Oboi Reed, a transit equality activist from Chatham. To close out the hour, we share an interview with Sol Patches from last September. Recorded live from WHPK 88.5 FM - The Pride of the South Side with your hosts Erisa Apantaku and Olivia Obineme. The bumper at the beginning of the show featured members of HUEY Gang and was produced by Jed Lickerman. You can find Sol Patches' music at: https://solpatches.bandcamp.com/. For more news, visit www.southsideweekly.com.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Olatunji Oboi Reed, speaking on the transformative power of bicycling. Oboi Reed is the co-founder and president of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement – "building an equitable, diverse bicycle culture in Chicago, transforming communities as we ride" – and is involved with groups such as Red Bike & Green and South Side Critical Mass, organized rides focused on getting more people of color biking. An organizer and advocate in many venues for communities of color and low- to moderate-income communities throughout Chicago to have access to the health, economic, and social benefits of cycling. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Olatunji Oboi Reed, speaking on the transformative power of bicycling. Oboi Reed is the co-founder and president of the Slow Roll Chicago bicycle movement – "building an equitable, diverse bicycle culture in Chicago, transforming communities as we ride" – and is involved with groups such as Red Bike & Green and South Side Critical Mass, organized rides focused on getting more people of color biking. An organizer and advocate in many venues for communities of color and low- to moderate-income communities throughout Chicago to have access to the health, economic, and social benefits of cycling. Wednesday Lunch is a Divinity School tradition started many decades ago. At noon on Wednesdays when the quarter is in session a delicious vegetarian meal is made in the Swift Hall kitchen by our student chefs and lunch crew. Once the three-course meal has reached dessert each week there is a talk by a faculty member or student from throughout the University, a community member from the greater Chicago area, or a guest from a wider distance.