PQ Diengott

PQ (they/she) joined Commonwheels in 2022 as Community Program Coordinator. They've been doing terrible things to bicycles since at least 2016, when they joined a bicycle chopper club. That first tall bike was a springboard into the world of leading group rides, teaching basic repair skills and modification, racing, and ultimately working as a bike educator and mechanic. Wherever PQ is found, fun is sure to follow!

Ira Moll

Ira (they/them) has been wrenching on bikes since they got their first one stolen in 2015. A sad day, but from it was born their curiosity about what it would be like to build one, rather than replace. 

Paying mechanics in many (many) boxes of pizza at a community bike shop, they’ve been breaking bikes since at least 2016, although it took them until 2017 to start to learn how to put them back together. Since then they've worked with community classes on refurbs, taught high school students how to be mechanics, and worked with friends, fixing, rebuilding, and coming full circle to replacing stolen bicycles. In their free time you can find them sailing, printmaking, and generally causing more chaos than is strictly necessary. 

Fiona Scarborough

Fiona (they/she) joined CW as an Open Shop mechanic in 2023. They have been fixing their own bikes for as long as they can remember, and loves anything with wheels that is human-powered! They cut their teeth wrenching on single-speeds, cargo-bikes and e-bikes. Their favorite bike, gifted to them in 2010, has been unrecognizably rebuilt twice over. You can catch them practicing wheelies, dancing on roller-skates, or doodling in their spare time.

Willow Wilkes

Willow (she/her) started her bike mechanic journey by watching video tutorials and figuring things out on her own. She signed up to volunteer in 2022 with almost no knowledge of bike repair, and learned a lot as she worked to fix her own, and others', bikes. She loves the atmosphere and loves sharing what she’s learned so far with everyone who stops by. You might also be able to see her juggle while you're here!

Ace Young

Ace (they/she) joined Commonwheels in Spring 2022, after helping out with Open Shop as a volunteer. They are passionate about teaching others about bike repair, breathing new life into old bikes, and encouraging more people to ride bikes. Ace is an all-seasons bike commuter and iced coffee drinker.

Eli Beeker

Eli (he/him) started working with CommonWheels in the summer of 2019. After a few seasons as a staff member, he transitioned to the CW Board to continue to support and grow the community he loves. When he moved to Boston in 2012, he found bikes to be the best way to get around our city. Now he loves teaching others what he knows about repairing and maintaining bikes.

He can be contacted at eli@commonwheels.org.

Tina Chan

Tina (she/her) is excited to join the CommonWheels Board of Directors. She appreciates CommonWheels' educational, social, and community qualities.  Tina loves the freedom, joy, and movement that riding her bike brings.  She believes in the power of the bicycle to enable people to be healthy, independent, empowered, and closer to their communities.

Brian Gilmore

Brian (he/him) is thrilled to be a new member of the CommonWheels board after learning about the organization through the combination of a friend and a chance encounter at State Park's Soulelujah. Brian has been commuting to work via a bike in various cities and states since 2007 and has learned how valuable an understanding of basic bike maintenance is to building confidence and comfort with getting around a city on two wheels. He looks forward to getting more connected to the biking community and supporting CommonWheels mission. For his day job, Brian works at the nonprofit Commonwealth, whose mission is to build financial security and opportunity for people living on limited income through innovation and partnerships. He is only mildly concerned about the similarity of the two organizations' names and is pretty confident he'll be able to keep them separate in his mind moving forward.

Laura Gray

Laura (she/her) joined the CommonWheels Board of Directors in 2016 after organizing several social rides as a volunteer. She was drawn to CommonWheels because of the inclusive nature of our rides, and continues to play a key role in planning and leading community rides as a member of the board. Laura is a content marketing professional, a bike educator, and is a resident of North Allston.

Amy Ingles

Amy (she/her) was previously a CommonWheels board member from 2014 to 2016 and has just recently rejoined the board after returning to Boston from a few years in Jacksonville, FL where she was the City's Bike/Ped Coordinator. She is excited to be back with CommonWheels and back in the Boston-area in her current role as a Transportation Engineer with the City of Medford! She is a year-round bike commuter, despite being from The South, and loves the inclusive, community focus of CommonWheels.

Galen Mook

Galen (he/him) co-founded CommonWheels with bike-minded Allstonians back in 2011, and has seen the organization grow to have lasting impact on the communities of Allston and Brighton and beyond. He values the way CommonWheels brings all sorts of people together out on two wheels, and appreciates the way CommonWheelers support each other from helping fix bikes, to assisting on group rides, to advocating for better bicycling in their neighborhoods. Galen currently is the executive director of MassBike, Massachusetts’ statewide bicycle advocacy organization, which allows him to help develop the policies, funding, and principles of better bicycling for all people, while at the same time helping out individual riders out on the roads and paths through his work with CommonWheels.

Scott “Mully” Mullen

Mully (he/him) believes in the power of the bicycle to transform urban areas and strengthen local communities. When people choose a bicycle, public transit, or their feet for local trips, the positive benefits are numerous, far-reaching, and inexpensive. Personal health and quality of life, congestion mitigation, sprawl reduction, improved air quality, and stronger local economies all flow from active transportation. The best part? Even if you don't care about any of that, riding a bike is FUN and it will change the way you see the world..

Mully has spent his career working to enable 'car-light' lifestyles and was part of the launch teams of Zipcar, Hubway (now BlueBikes), and Lime. He was a charter board member of the LivableStreets Alliance and now serves as the TDM Director of A Better City which includes leading the Allston-Brighton TMA. He will ride with you all day long and then spin the party all night. #bikeToTheFuture