6PM EST

Previously, Thee Abundance Summit, Thee Abundance Workshops will be hour-long sessions presented once per month. We are continuing our mission to celebrate joy for Black and Brown folks in cycling and the outdoors. Learn more and sign up to join us below!

This workshop presents a panel discussion among four changemaking women of color holding different roles in the bike race industry. Their diversity of experiences as bike racers, a race director, a race mechanic, and a race official, will make for an abundant conversation about the barriers to participating in bike racing and how folks can support a sustainable future of the sport.

Presented by: Bronco Wild Fund, Zwift, Liv, & SRAM

This workshop will offer a perspective on how to address the needs of one's local cycling community, from an individual who had no prior related experience. While the March Abundance Workshop focused on sharing resources and using cross-community support to address community needs, here the listener will learn how to devise a project plan that is focused on an identified need, and will be offered some suggestions on how to use skills they already have to turn that plan into reality. 

Sheila Mahadevan (she/her) is a resident of Washington, DC, who loves bikes, riding bikes, and the community built around bikes. Sheila has been riding bikes in the DC area for over 10 years and enjoys mountain biking and gravel cycling the most. 

In 2020, Sheila started Melanin Base Miles, a project aimed at removing barriers and increasing racial diversity in her local cycling community. Since 2020, Melanin Base Miles has administered two gravel scholarship programs that have sent 20 BIPOC athletes to gravel events in the Mid-Atlantic. Program participants have received cash stipends, free coaching, mechanical support, and the opportunity to join community gravel rides. 

In 2022, Melanin Base Miles launched a BIPOC gravel racing team. The team currently has 12 members that race competitively in the largest Mid-Atlantic and national gravel events. Further, Melanin Base Miles is a DC-based non-profit corporation.

Sheila serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors for Melanin Base Miles and was also recently appointed to the Board of The Roam Collective. By day, Sheila is a lawyer who loves cats.

Presented by: Bronco Wild Fund, Zwift, Liv, & SRAM

Previously, Thee Abundance Summit, Thee Abundance Workshops will be hour-long sessions presented once per month. We are continuing our mission to celebrate joy for Black and Brown folks in cycling and the outdoors. Learn more and sign up to join us below!

What does solidarity in action look like? Bikes have an amazing ability to bring together people from diverse communities. In the past two years we have witnessed a shift in consciousness around mobility justice and creating access for marginalized folks in the bike space. This workshop focuses on creative ways to achieve your bike goals by sharing resources, swapping skill sets, and offering support across communities. Actions like barter, mutual aid, sharing social media posts, and using inclusive language are just a few topics we will discuss. 

Presented by: Bronco Wild Fund, Zwift, Liv, & SRAM

We discuss how we navigate being outside and menstruating. We're talking products, their pros/cons, trial and error, and how to pack for outdoor adventures. Hopefully, we can shed some light on an unnecessarily taboo topic.