Kim Irwin is the Executive Director of the Alliance for Health Promotion, the organization through which Health by Design, the Indiana Citizens’ Alliance for Transit (ICAT), the Indiana Complete Streets Campaign, and the Indiana Safe Routes to School Partnership are all convened and coordinated. Coalition partners are working to ensure that Indianapolis and communities around the state have neighborhoods, public spaces and transportation infrastructure that promote physical activity and healthy living. Kim has a Master of Public Health from the Indiana University School of Medicine Department of Public Health and an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. Her prior work experience includes health promotion activities and program and administrative management for the American Lung Association, the IU School of Medicine, and in senior services. She currently serves on the Steering Committees of the Indiana Healthy Weight Initiative and Indy Rezone. Kim was honored in the 2012 class of the Indianapolis Business Journal’s Forty under 40.

Pete Fritz, RLA, AICP is the Healthy Communities Planner with the Indiana State Department of Health, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. He has thirty years of extensive experience in urban planning, urban design, transportation-related design, trail planning and design, park and recreation planning and environmental planning. He has a passion for working with project stakeholders in planning and designing great communities with a focus on promoting healthy, active lifestyles through changes to the built environment. Pete has a unique background in community planning and landscape architecture, having worked in both the public and private sectors. Pete’s current projects include developing and facilitating a series of bicycle-friendly community workshops, complete streets workshops and a state-wide bicycle suitability map. Pete serves on the Board of Directors for Bicycle Indiana, a state-wide bicycle advocacy group. He is also the bike commuter chair for the Central Indiana Bicycling Association and has served as the bicycling representative on the Trail Advisory Board for the Indiana Department of Natural resources. Pete volunteers for the Indianapolis Department of Public Works Mayor’s Bicycle Advisory Council. Pete is a registered landscape architect and a certified professional planner.