Officers
President: Jeff Feet
Vice President: Shirley Lazenby
Treasurer: Regine Northover
Secretary: Larry Mason
Board of Directors (in addition to the four officers listed above)
Kirk Iversen
Jamie Miernik
Will O’Connor
Jeff Feet, President
Montgomery, AL
jeff.feet@gmail.com
Jeff grew up water and snow skiing in Michigan. He studied Marine Biology at Michigan State, but decided after some time that business courses might be better for him. He managed Kmart stores for 14 years and then many years restoring, repairing, and tuning vintage race cars. As his children grew, he hiked, biked, kayaked, camped and climbed with them.
Since moving to Alabama in 2004, Jeff worked in Statewide Workforce Development, followed by several years as Case Manager at a small law firm in Montgomery. He is the past President of the Montgomery Bicycle Club.
While actively supporting any and all bicycling events, Jeff’s focus is on the unrealized potential that cycling has on regional and statewide economic and tourism development. Jeff believes that there is a huge opportunity for AlaBike to connect, advocate, and empower bicycle clubs, organizers and individuals, as well as non-cycle related advocacy groups statewide for increased awareness of bicycling benefits.
Regine Northover, Treasurer
Madison, AL
Regi’s first introduction to cycling was in 2010, when she joined the Spring City Cycling Club after moving to Huntsville in 2005. This was an excellent “move” that satisfied her desire to become a road cyclist and also to connect to people and make new friends. She’s edited the club newsletter since 2011, and was introduced to AlaBike via mutual SCCC board members Jamie Miernik and Morgan Andriulli. In 2015 she became the treasurer for the organization which led to a much-increased awareness of Cycling Advocacy and the need for it in Alabama.
She enjoys recreational riding, organized centuries (mostly metric distance) or out-of-town rides, any top trails on her mountain bike, hiking, an occasional kayak trip on flat or moving water, and travel to interesting places near and far.
In her other life Regi is the Contracts Department Administrative Support for Dynetics in Huntsville.
Larry Mason, Secretary
Huntsville, AL
larry@hubscoop.net
Larry has lived in Alabama since 1998, with a two-year stint in 1989-1991. Originally he moved to Alabama to work for Intergraph Corp. with a post-graduate degree in Urban Planning and a strong background with Geographic Information Systems, Transportation Management Systems, and Urban Information Systems. Larry has been a bicyclist all his life, from the days of paper routes, and getting around San Diego, then college. He has always had a bike for personal mobility, never a “good” bike, but just a bike.
Since 2012, Larry has been involved in various community-building activities. He is on the board of Your Town Alabama. He is a regular at BASC meetings and the City of Madison citizen representative to the Huntsville MPO CAC, as a strong believer in the nexus of land use, economic development, and transportation. He is currently working to establish the HUBS Coop in Huntsville, whose mission is to provide affordable access to bicycles, bicycle safety programs, and advocate for an inclusive mobility infrastructure. Larry would like to see a network of bike co-ops, shops, and clubs throughout Alabama, supported by bike and active transportation trails, as an expressway to economic development.
Jamie Miernik
Huntsville, AL
Jamie has been a resident of Alabama for 3 decades, but she grew up a cyclist in Minneapolis and lived and cycled for several years in the Seattle area before moving to Huntsville. Although Huntsville’s center city street grid, weather and traffic facilitates bike commuting in some parts of the city, the lack of cycling infrastructure across the city and state is a huge impediment to more people enjoying her favorite pastime and form of transportation. In 2003, with the help of a handful of others from Huntsville, she founded the Alabama Bicycle Coalition in an effort to spur the development of more bicycling friendly communities in Alabama. It has been difficult to effect change.
Jamie came to the Rocket City to build the International Space Station for Boeing. She has been employed in engineering ever since. For most of her career, she has been a bike commuter more days than she drives, mountain bikes and rides and directs century rides. She is a member of the Spring City Cycling Club and the Rocket City Cycle Belles and has held several officer positions and is currently the Community Affairs Officer, as well as Century Director. She is also a perennial member of the Huntsville Bicycle Advisory and Safety Committee (BASC) and encourages other local cyclists to get involved.
Will O’Connor
Montgomery, AL
Will O'Connor is the Executive Director of River Region Trails, Inc., a Montgomery based non-profit working to develop a network of pedestrian greenways, trails, parks and outdoor resources in Montgomery and surrounding counties. A licensed Professional Engineer, Will left his former career as a sales engineer in 2019 to lead River Region Trails full-time. A resident of Montgomery since 2011, he has been involved in trail construction and development in Georgia and Alabama for more than 15 years. In his spare time Will's hobbies include hiking, biking, and camping, which fuel his passion for developing trail infrastructure that is accessible to everyone.
