In this episode, I connect with Emily Stutts, a special ed teacher from Brooklyn, NY, who has just returned from a summer school class in Germany and The Netherlands focusing on transforming our streets into people-oriented places through quick interventions.
 
Emily's journey to becoming a passionate urbanist and advocate for creating safer, more activity-promoting streets and communities is such an inspiring tale for any concerned community member who would like to make a difference in their neighborhood.

Watch the video version of this episode to get the full effect

Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):
- Megan Ramey episode
- Billy Fields episode
- Lior Steinberg episode
- The Car That Wanted To Be A Bike book in the Active Towns bookshop and on Amazon 
- George Liu episode
- Darcy Kitching episode
- Tim Gill episode
- Curbing Traffic book by the Bruntlett's in the Active Towns Bookshop
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Credits:
All video and audio production by John Simmerman

Music:
Epidemic Sound

Resources used during the production of this episode:
- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm
- Adobe Creative Cloud Suite

Studio Equipment:
- Main MIcrophone Sennheiser Pro Audio MKH416-P48U3
- Rode RODECaster Pro Podcast Production Studio
- Additional Microphone - Shure MV7
- Camera - Sony ZV-E10 (currently sold out)
- Lens - Sigma 16mm f/1.4 DC DN Contemporary Lens
- Elgato Cam Link 4k
- Elgato Streamdeck XL*
- Elgato Streamdeck (*you may not need the XL)

Editing Computer System:
- Apple MacBook Pro 16" 2021 M1 Pro
- LG 34WP88C-B 34-inch Curved 21:9 UltraWide QHD (3440x1440) IPS Display with Ergo Stand

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Background:
Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.

I’m a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.

In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.

Since that time I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities".

My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.

Thanks for tuning in, I hope you find this content helpful.

Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022

Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. Any donations collected are used specifically to support the organization's mission.

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