Meet the Team

Fionnuala Quinn

With decades of civil engineering experience and a strong commitment to better streets, Fionnuala is dedicated to enhancing understanding of our built environment through traffic gardens.

A recognized national expert, Fionnuala leverages her engineering background to create installation guides, develop resources, and provide guidance for traffic gardens. She has contributed to permanent and pop-up projects nationwide and authored design guides and feasibility studies for Philadelphia, Seattle, the District of Columbia, and other major jurisdictions. Fionnuala designs child-focused programs, facilitates traffic garden installations for communities, and organizes events, workshops, pop-ups and tours at both local and national levels.

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Contact Fionnuala: Finn@TrafficGardens.com

Rick Holt

Rick is the co-founder of the Early Childhood Mobility Coalition which is focused on mobility of children eight and younger, a safe streets advocate, and a League of American Bicyclists Certified Instructor. He has completed research on children's physical activity and traffic gardens, and is currently focused on the benefits of children's play and kids on balance bikes.

Rick is a grandparent who enjoys getting outdoors on bikes with his granddaughters, and has worked to help bring four traffic gardens to the Cincinnati, OH, area. He is also working to introduce bike buses to his community and has been using his "Bike Bus Passport" to collect stamps from rides across the U.S.

Contact Rick: Rick@TrafficGardens.com​

Skip Bean

Skip has extensive experience running professional businesses and applies his skills to the world of traffic gardens. As well as assisting with business management and future planning, he also enjoys lending a hand to events and some of the fun activities. For over two decades he practiced law in Washington D.C. and Pennsylvania, representing clients in commercial transactions and litigation, and remains a member of the bar in those jurisdictions.  You can find him most days riding his bike on the trails of Northern Virginia. 

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Contact Skip: Skip@TrafficGardens.com

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Anna Wickstrom

Anna earned her Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Southern New Hampshire University and moved toward building a social media presence for a small hospitality brand. From there, Anna gained the skills to develop procedures and organize tasks to simplify processes and alleviate stress to help others focus on their priorities.

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Although Anna likes to travel often, she can be found exploring New Hampshire and the surrounding New England states.

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Contact Anna: AWickstromVA@gmail.com

Aegis

Aegis is a five-year-old Pembroke Welsh Corgi with a keen eye for connected road design! She's always on the lookout for ways to improve installations. Also treats. She takes her traffic garden inspection duties very seriously and is a leader in her field.

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Likes: pickled radish, belly rubs, visible pavement markings
Dislikes: baths, geese, poor ADA accessibility

Favorite Book: Spot's Parking Lot
Fun Facts: Aries, speaks English, Korean and Irish

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Keep an eye out for Aegis across our site and newsletters!

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Contact Aegis: Aegis@TrafficGardens.dog

Emma Carlson

A graduate of NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Emma is an award-winning filmmaker who produces and edits short videos for Discover Traffic Gardens, and designs our website & monthly newsletters.

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Emma speaks English, Irish, French, and Korean, and also draws pictures of Aegis.

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Contact Emma: emmafcarlson@gmail.com

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Kathleen Hayes, PLA, MLA, MFA

Kathleen is a licensed landscape architect and environmental graphic designer with a passion for connecting people to places. She has experience in trails & open space planning, complete streets, greenways and ecological restoration. Her dual background in landscape architecture and graphic design gives her a unique ability to augment placemaking through strategies of branding, wayfinding, interpretive design, and public art.

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Contact Kathleen: kathleen@kathleenhayes.design