Volunteers

Become a Volunteer
CYCLE Kids is looking for motivated and caring individuals willing to donate their time to work with children or provide assistance to the organization in a number of different ways. Whether you can help out a few hours a day or only a few hours a month, you can make a difference. Here are just a few projects you can get involved with when you help CYCLE Kids…

• Work with cities and towns to create safe routes to school and for recreation.
• Work with our team to develop our curriculum for after-school programs for grades 4-6 and middle schools. Our curriculum builds upon basic bike safety and handling skills, sports and general nutritional knowledge, and bike maintenance and mechanical knowledge.
• Promote youth cycling teams.

Please email volunteer@cyclekids.org to find out more about volunteer opportunities.

Meet a few of our current volunteers...

Lauren Scopaz

Lauren biking along the Denali highway in Alaska

Lauren graduated from Dartmouth College in 2000 with a B.A. in Engineering Sciences, while competing for four years on the Big Green field hockey team, captaining the team her senior year. After graduating, Lauren worked as a strategy consultant for three years, two years at the global strategy consulting firm Bain & Company and one at The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit focused on strategy consulting for other nonprofit organizations. She currently works as the Community Service Coordinator at Horizons for Homeless Children, a nonprofit located in Dorchester, MA that works to improve the lives of homeless children and their families.

After bicycling recreationally for many year, Lauren moved into the "avid cyclist" category in 2000, when she led her first bicycle touring trip in Europe for an outdoor company called Overland Adventure travel. She and a co-leader motivated a group of nine high school kids to bicycle, unsupported and fully loaded (I.e. carrying all your stuff on your bike), from London to Rome in 5 weeks. In subsequent years she had led high school kids on two other trips, one across the United States from Savannah, GA, to Santa Monica, CA, and the other in Alaska and Canada, from Anchorage to Juneau.

Lauren is also an avid volunteer, having volunteered all her life in a variety of ways from coaching kids, mentoring kids, office work, Habitat for Humanity, clean-up, to currently volunteering through Boston Cares. She also thoroughly enjoys working with kids, and so she will be right at home assisting CYCLE Kids as a volunteer in the pilot program.

Nathan Brahms

Nathaniel Brahms, a.k.a “Jaws”, is a physics Ph.D. student at Harvard University in his fourth year.  He holds a Bachelor of Science from Brown University. He is a member of the Harvard University Cycling Association, earning 9th in his division during the 2004 road race season. Jaws has worked teaching both high school students with special disabilities and Ivy League undergraduates. When not exploring Eastern Massachusetts on two wheels or studying physics, he spends time cooking (and eating!) his favorite Mediterranean, New England, Italian, and Southern foods.

Jaws is a strong proponent of the bicycle as the perfect tool for transportation, recreation, and fitness; he is excited by the opportunity to increase the awareness, use, and love of the bicycle in the Boston area.

Brooks Bohall

Brooks graduated from the University of Buffalo in 2003 with a B.S. in Chemistry. After a brief stay as a co-op student at Pfizer’s Global Research and Development site in Groton, CT, he began graduate school in Harvard’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. While at Pfizer Brooks worked in a drug discovery laboratory that targeted Alzheimer’s disease. His current research efforts involve physical organic chemistry, chemical biology and materials science. Although he has been an avid outdoors enthusiast for years, cycling has become an important part of his life only rather recently. Brooks joined the Harvard University Cycling Association (HUCA) last October and has been training with the team ever since. This past summer he traveled to Iowa to participate in the Des Moines Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI), which zigzags its way across the state from the Missouri to the Mississippi river. Throughout college Brooks served as a tutor in the Chemistry Department and as an Academic Assistant to freshman engineering students. Currently he is a teaching fellow for an introductory organic chemistry course and a non-resident tutor at Winthrop House, where he also serves as a sophomore advisor to Harvard undergraduates. Brooks became excited about CYCLE Kids because it combines education and recreation in a very unique way. He is thrilled to be part of a program that fills a necessary gap in many children’s lives, addresses current health issues and is so much fun.

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