The Center for Community Transportation (CCT), Ithaca Carshare’s parent organization, has hired Ithaca native Laura Vineyard to take the helm of the organization. She begins July 18, 2024. The CCT is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that focuses on providing alternative transportation options in Tompkins County, New York.
Laura (she/they) comes with a strong background in community organizing, nonprofit leadership, and entrepreneurship. She joins the CCT after five years as the Executive Director of Body Positive Fitness Alliance, an education and advocacy organization striving to make the fitness industry more accessible and inclusive to all people.
“I’m very excited about the opportunity to work with the CCT to cultivate accessible transportation alternatives as an essential component of our community’s well being,” Vineyard says, adding, “I’m looking forward to bringing that lens of accessibility to alternative transportation to support the whole health of all individuals in our community.”
The CCT envisions a community where travel by shared and active transportation is healthy, safe, affordable, and convenient for all, and works across sectors to fulfill its mission of enhancing transportation access while reducing its negative environmental and economic impacts.
CCT’s mission-focused services and programs include Ithaca Carshare, Bike Walk Tompkins, and Ithaca Bikeshare, emphasizing social equity and environmental sustainability in this era of new transportation options and emerging mobility trends.