Tim Young - Panel Moderator

is currently the Executive Director of Friends of Pathways in Jackson, Wyoming. He was one of the founders of Friends of Pathways back in 1994, and also served as the first Chairman of the Jackson Pathways Task Force that was started in 1991.  Tim was employed from 1992-2002 as the Pathways Director for Teton County and the Town of Jackson, where he managed the development of the first pathways and initiated programs to enhance national forest trail systems and worked on alternative transportation planning for local government. From 2002 until 2006 Tim worked as an Assistant Regional Director for the National Parks Conservation Association, working on a range of park conservation programs that included a focus on alternative transportation in the National Park System and locally on the Grand Teton National Park Pathways project.

Tim has served on a number of local, state, and national bicycle committees and alternative transportation boards, and was recently appointed to the Board of the League of American Bicyclists, the oldest and largest bicycle advocacy organization in America. Tim is an accomplished bicycle adventurer, having completed a seven-year 45,000-mile bicycle tour around the world, as well as successful bicycle expeditions in Europe, Tibet, and the Silk Road in Central Asia.