Robert is the Advocacy Director at the non-profit organization Bike East Bay, where he focuses on active transportation infrastructure, policy, and planning work throughout Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Previously as Bike East Bay’s Education Director since 2012 he grew their bike education program to 150 free classes per year reaching over 5000 attendees, and wrote over $1M in successful grant applications. This included funding for free bike instructor certifications prioritizing women and people of color for paid leadership roles at classes, and funding for Oakland-based partner organizations such as Cycles of Change and Red, Bike, and Green. Robert has participated in successful transportation funding ballot measure campaigns including Oakland’s Measure KK and Measure U. From 2014 to 2018 he was a mayor-appointed Commissioner on the Oakland Bicyclist and Pedestrian Advisory Commission, and continues to co-chair the group’s Infrastructure Committee that he helped initiate in 2017. Robert was a Community Advisory Committee member to the “Let’s Bike Oakland” bike plan update in 2018-19, and he has coordinated with both state and local partners on legislative and policy matters including Oakland’s bicycle registration ordinance update in 2016, and development of Oakland’s first Neighborhood Bike Route Implementation Guide in 2021.