2025 Awards At The Youth Bike Summit
Invest In Women’s Entrepreneur scholarship
This year, the National Youth Bike Council worked with select Earn-A-Bike organizations to nominate a young woman for the Invest in Women’s Entrepreneur scholarship. This award is given to a young woman that “goes above and beyond, demonstrating proactiveness and leadership qualities in their bicycle program or community.” This award is funded by Invest In Women’s Entrepreneurs and gives the recipient a scholarship to attend the Youth Bike Summit.
The 2025 Invest in Women’s Entrepreneur scholarship was awarded to Kayla Edwards, a high school student living near D.C., on June 1st.
Kayla spends her time representing the powerful impact cycling has had on Black youth in Washington, DC through her work at Pedalheads, a youth bike camp. She is also a member of Prime Ability, an organization dedicated to uplifting Black youth through cycling and promoting healthy lifestyles as positive outlets for teens from challenging backgrounds. After learning about her nomination, she happily mentioned a moment that has stuck out to her in her work: “I was helping a young kid who believed biking wasn’t for him. He’d never seen anyone who looked like him doing it as a young black kid. He was nervous and didn’t even want to try but I talked with him, taught him step by step [how] to build his confidence. When he finally rode on his own, the pride on his face said everything. That moment reminded me why representation matters and why I do this work. At the end of the day I encouraged him to tell his friends and stuff. With the lead of Coach Clark, we were also able to go to Hart Middle School to build bikes to kick off their Riding for Focus Program.”
Kimberly and Kristi award
The National Youth Bike Council introduced and nominated a young person for the first ever Kimberly and Kristi award that would be presented at the Youth Bike Summit in 2025. The award is in honor of Kimberly White and Kirsti Manco, two young ladies who were pivotal to the start of the Youth Bike Summit movement. The Kimberly and Kristi award celebrates dedication, passion, and taking initiative for a young person, a team, or an organization whose work creates or has the potential for positive change that impacts a community of people the award-winner belongs to.
The 2025 Kimberly and Kristi award was presented to Allan Feldman, a college student at Brandeis University, located near Boston Massachusetts.
Allan’s nomination recognizes his contributions to Brandeis University through a small team of students that planned to revive a sustainable lifestyle on campus through a bicycle share initiative. Allan has also been outspoken and actively engaged with his local bicycle coalition both on and off campus, working to increase road safety of all road users. When receiving the award Allan mentioned his biggest personal project to us. “My biggest personal project has been working to get a bicycle share program on campus, similar to other universities in the Massachusetts area like Tufts and Wellesley.”
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