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
Co-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
Co-Director/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.
Tom Donley - At Large
Tom Donley is a nonprofit CFO with extensive experience supporting international human rights organizations, environmental nonprofits, women’s rights groups, and social justice causes across the South and the United States. The best six years of his life were spent living in Belgium, where he embraced a car-free lifestyle, deepening his commitment to sustainability and community engagement. Tom brings a wealth of financial expertise and a passion for driving meaningful change to every organization he works with.
Board of Directors
Kamaljit Punia
Kamaljit Punia is a graphic designer, illustrator and printer based in Durango CO since 2003. A cycling enthusiast and townie commuter, she brings a creative and community-centered perspective to Bike Durango. Kamaljit is passionate about artful, inclusive and accessible communities and the power of everyday biking to transform how we move through our towns.
Jay Snowdon - Team Activist
Jay Snowdon has been a recreational transit junkie his whole life and recently realized that a lot of people are that same way, they just don't know it yet. With this realization, he has joined the Bike Durango team to help others within the community find their own voice and passion when it comes to advocating for bikeability, walkability, micromobility, accessibility and more! Jay grew up riding the T in Massachusetts (Green Line to the 'burbs!) and has lived in a variety of towns and cities with all levels of mobility options from the transit meccas of the East Cost to the intimidating sprawl of large Western cities and everything in between. Durango has such enthusiastic community members and potential for very intentional and though-out ways to navigate our incredible city -- Jay wouldn't want it any other way!