About Bike Durango
Bike Durango began as a project in 2021 to help to inspire, educate, and advocate for more people to take their short trips by bicycle.
Our goal is to research, communicate, plan, and compile information to help educate cyclists and motor vehicle drivers to be safer while sharing the road. Our goal is to be the advocating voice for bicycle commuters in Durango and we strive to help bike commuting become easier, equitable, and more comfortable for our town.
Jennaye Derge
Executive Director/Founder
Jennaye Derge has lived and commuted by bike in Durango for about 17 years. She moved from a big, smoggy, loud, car-centric city where everyone was always stuck in traffic and very cranky. Once she found how easy it was to get around by bicycle, she began peer-pressuring all her friends to do the same. Now, she advocates, educates and tries to inspire more people to ditch their cars and get around by bike.
Her nonprofit work spans over many years and she often finds herself championing for the beloved small-town charm of Durango that she fell in love with many years ago.
She currently also works in journalism, is a published author, and retired professional photographer. She often writes stories and columns for magazines and newspapers about how more people should ditch their cars and ride their bikes.
When’s she’s not working, she is either reading a good book, or exploring near and far.
Andrew Allport
Policy Director
Andrew Allport, fortuitously joined Bike Durango in the summer of 2023. His passion for safe alternative transportation, and his skillful ability to find and recall facts is indispensable when it comes to ensuring safe and easy commuting in Durango.
Andrew loves riding bikes to coffee shops, the library, his kids’ school, the bagel shop, the library, Southern Utah, high alpine meadows, and public meetings on infrastructure. He spent many years teaching at the University of Southern California and Fort Lewis College, and his written work has been published in places like Alpinist, The Boston Review, and Denver Quarterly. His biggest goal for Bike Durango is to shift the city toward infrastructure that makes people safer and happier.