Commute Options Team

Brian has lived in Central Oregon since the year 2000 and loves to ride bicycles and work with community. Working for Commute Options since 2008, Brian has learned many techniques for outreaching and engaging community in Central Oregon. Brian works with Oregon Safe Routes to School, ODOT, City of Bend, City of Redmond. He is passionate about creative change and promoting community health, active transportation and a vibrant local economy.

As the Community Engagement Coordinator for Commute Options, Kim promotes choices other than driving alone in a 17-county area of rural and frontier Oregon. Kim started the Commute Options Partner (COP) program in 2003, encouraging business owners to offer their employees rewards for using Transportation Options. Kim has served on the State Of Oregon Public Transportation Advisory Committee (PTAC) since 2014. Kim comes from a media background. For 15 years, she was a host and producer of radio talk-shows in Atlanta, Ga. and Bend, Or. She is still heard on the airwaves in Central Oregon, touting the benefits of Commute Options programs for all community members.

As Communications and vanpool program coordinator, Indigo runs social media, website, newsletter and blog updates while promoting all the programs Commute Options has to offer. In addition, Indigo is taking over the vanpool program in the hopes of expanding this exciting program throughout Deschutes county and beyond. 

Indigo graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in city planning and nonprofit management in 2018. It was there that she became passionate about community development, resiliency and sustainability which ultimately led her into the realm of alternative transportation. In her free time she enjoys baking and cooking, biking, skiing, camping and taking road trips. She’s excited for a new adventure and exploring all Bend has to offer with her dog, Eddie.

Marshall Greene is best known around Central Oregon as the 7x winner of the Pole, Pedal, Paddle multi-sport race, but he’ll be the first to tell you that has nothing to do with why he joined the Board of Commute Options. Having spent many years as part of the lycra-wearing crowd, first as a cross-country ski racer and then as a bike enthusiast, Marshall spent two years in Madison, WI getting his Masters Degree in Population Health. While there, he learned about how a city’s built environment—in particular, it’s streets—can shape the health of a community by improving its fitness, reducing local pollution, and building social capital. While in Madison, Marshall also learned to love the bike paths of Madison by becoming an avid bike commuter. To all the naysayers who think it is too cold in the winter for active transportation in Central Oregon, Marshall recommends a visit to Madison in January to see the lines of people riding in the cold Wisconsin wind and snow. Marshall serves as Chair on the Commute Options Board of Directors. 

“I want the streets to be safe for my kids to ride their bikes and and to advocate for vulnerable users of the road. As a healthcare data analyst at a community health center (Mosaic Medical), I also see that many of Central Oregon’s most at-risk populations—people experiencing homelessness, who are out-of-work, or physically disabled—are not able to drive and instead rely upon public transportation and biking to get around. By advocating for safer streets with Commute Options, I hope” to help reduce at least one stress for these Central Oregon residents.”