About

A bit about me.

I’m the Manager of the Forest Hill Village BIA (Business Improvement Area), the Managing Director of Greening Homes Ltd., an events & portrait photographer, and an urban cycling consultant.

My book The Urban Cycling Survival Guide is available online, I sit on the boards of The Laneway Project and the Kensington Market Action Committee – I’m also the caretaker (aka the CARdener) of Toronto’s smallest park, the Kensington Market Garden Car.

I’ve previously served as the Director of Communications & Events, and Founding Executive Director of the Toronto Cyclists Union (now Cycle Toronto), as an advisor for the Metcalf Foundation Cycle City grant program, and have regularly contributed to Momentum, Dandyhorse and Precedent magazines. As the co-creator and Coordinator of Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, a former Community Advisory Board Member / Photographer for Jane’s Walk, the original “Community Animator” at the Centre for Social Innovation, and as the first Coordinator of the newly formed Kensington Market BIA, I’ve been an important contributor to some of the most exciting community-based sustainable urban transportation / transformation projects to emerge in downtown Toronto since my return in 2003, and received a Toronto Foundation Vital People grant in 2009.

As a published & working event and portrait photographer, I’m often found with a camera in my hand, and am equally comfortable conversing in French or English. I’m a year-round city cyclist and love my home town Toronto!

• Here’s an interview of note: Q & A with Toronto Bicycle Maven Yvonne Bambrick
• And a piece from City TV about my work with the bike union
• You can check out some of my photos here
• Or connect on LinkedIn/Twitter @yvonnebambrick