2025 Board of Directors
Bill Meiklejohn
Board President
Bill is a Schwinn factory trained mechanic & graduate of Barnett Bicycle Institute of CO. He’s been volunteering at the CAT Co-op for 7 years & was instrumental in developing CAT’s holiday bike giveaway program. Bill served as VP of CAT for 3 years and as CAT’s president since 2023. During his tenure, he’s been leading CAT’s strategic planning process, increasing CAT’s reach in the Lehigh Valley. Bill has 30 years’ experience as owner, CEO and president of various tech companies.
Jennifer Cunningham
Vice President
Jennifer has worked in alumni relations in higher ed for 18+ years. She’s put her fundraising, event planning, and marketing skills to use as CAT’s VP for the last two and Fundraising / Marketing Chair for the last three. As a League Cycling Instructor, Jennifer planned 3 CAT overnight bike trips and also leads some women’s rides. She’s commuted by bike, foot, and/or bus almost her entire working life and rents a bike in nearly every city she visits, in part to get ideas and inspiration about how to make the Lehigh Valley a friendlier place to get around without having to drive.
Edwin Kay
Treasurer
Ed is emeritus professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. He has commuted by bike to work for the last 45 years. He and his wife, Jannie, have bike toured on three continents. He strongly supports CAT because its advocacy has substantially improved his and Jannie’s biking in the Lehigh Valley.
Anne Felker
Board Member
Anne joined the board after serving as CAT’s attorney for 20+ years. Anne supports CAT as a League Cycling Instructor, leading a number of rides, including CAT’S weekly women’s and Over the Hill rides. She has focused on training new ride leaders, to expand CAT’s array of group rides on offer, in the belief that well-planned group rides allow individual riders to develop the skills and confidence to use their bikes for transportation.
Jennifer Swann
Board Member
Jennifer is committed to increasing individual mobility. She’s worked on the CAT board for about a decade to improve pedestrian safety, cycling education, and access to public transit. Jennifer previously served as board president, promoting and shepherding many changes in the organization. As a result, CAT has grown in its ability to procure funds, expanded membership, and initiated new programs.
Predo Nisic
Board Member
As a refugee from Sarajevo, Bosnia, Predo Nisic moved to Pittsburgh in 1996 where he worked as a social worker and later as a foreman with Pittsburgh’s steel mills. In 1997, he was given his first bicycle (ever!) and developed a friendship with a bike collector. As his friend’s business grew, Predo helped him find new bikes and set up a bike museum. Predo is passionate about bicycles and likes working with people. He’s been volunteering regularly at the CAT Co-op since May 2019.
Tim Phillips
Board Member
Tim’s an educator. He started as an elementary school teacher & finished as a professor & chairperson of the Dept. of Instructional Technology at Bloomsburg University. He’s been riding a bike since childhood and never stopped. He bikes for transport, shopping, exercise, & the joy of riding. He completed century rides and multi-day rides like Erie Canal Trail & Greater Allegheny Passage (GAP) Trail. He enjoys teaching people how to ride safely and repair their bikes.
Lisa Lubin
Board Member
Lisa is a former broadcast journalist who recently moved to Bethlehem from Chicago where her bike and public transit were her main modes of transport. She’s biked all over the world in places like Vietnam, London, Melbourne, Berlin, and Buenos Aires. When not riding, Lisa freelances as a travel writer and video consultant, and is the executive director for a farm animal welfare non-profit. Her goal is to help make the Lehigh Valley an area centered around people, not cars!
Ayana Brown
Board Member
Ayana found her passion for biking through an Afros in Nature collaboration event in 2021. It’s been love at first sight since. She learned the ropes very quickly and became a CAT ride leader for the women’s ride on Tuesdays, as well as the weekend bakery rides. She’s an advocate for education, safety awareness, and mechanics. Ayana earned her certification as a League Cycling Instructor and enjoys connecting others to the delights of biking with CAT.
Dave Gottlieb
Board Member
Dave grew up in Michigan where he fell in love with cycling as a boy riding his banana seat Schwinn in his neighborhood. Dave’s fondest memories are riding the annual DALMAC with his father traversing the five-mile Mackinac Suspension Bridge. As a CAT volunteer, he’s transitioned from working on spreadsheets to being up to his elbows in grease, repacking bearings, and truing wheels. Dave also serves on the CAT Government Relations and Youth Bike Committees.
Emily Roland
Board Member
Emily believes there are few things as liberating and joyful as riding a bicycle. Her passion for cycling started when her parents strapped her into a bike trailer to go on “bike hikes” for ice cream. Now, she can be seen doing the same except she’s the one pulling the trailer while her dogs await their pup cups. As a student and resident in Burlington, VT and Portland, OR she experienced the empowering feeling of having bike lanes, thoughtful urban design, and a community on two-wheels. Not to mention efficient public transportation! As the manager of the Easton Farmers’ Market at the Greater Easton Development Partnership, she continues to promote biking and public transportation to make our communities healthier, safer, and fun.
Kyle Lebouitz
Board Member
Kyle is a mechanical engineer and is currently the Director of Technology for the Release Etch Division of KLA. The mission of CAT aligns well with Kyle’s interests since he enjoys cycling, working on bikes, walking and walkable neighborhoods, and the increased use of public transit.
Support Staff
Scott Slingerland
Executive Director
Scott has served as CAT’s Director since 2015. From 2008-2015, he was CAT’s bicycling education director, teaching bicycling traffic skills to over 250 adults, and basic bike education to over 8,000 children. Scott has been a League of American Bicyclists certified instructor (LCI) since 2006 and completed his CyclingSavvy Instructor (CSI) Training in February 2018. Scott is licensed in Pennsylvania as a Professional Engineer.
Jason Schiffer, Esq.
Attorney (ex-officio)
Jason is the Lehigh University Police Chief, as well as practicing lawyer, formerly with Cohen, Feeley, Altemoose and Rambo representing bicyclists and pedestrians. He was also formerly with the City of Bethlehem as Police Commissioner. Prior to that as Sergeant on the bicycle unit. Before that Jason was known to be a young BMX rider about Fountain Hill.
Frank Pavlick
Bike Mechanics Instructor
Frank has over 40 years experience working in bicycle shops, supporting racers and running his own mobile repair business. Frank was a founding member of CAT and remains committed to the cause 25 years later as a full-time bike commuter. Frank is currently a professional welder with Weldship Corporation.
Wayne Strader
Accountant
Wayne and wife Michelle have been preparing CAT’s taxes since 2005 through their business, Strader & Associates. They have relocated to Kanawha Head, West Virginia where they still prepare CAT’s taxes and run their family sheep farm.
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