Nedra Deadwyler guides equitable processes to bring community voices into defining and shaping places and the story of place. She is a social worker, cultural preservationist, and creative. She centers humanity, lived experiences, community care, and our beautiful world. Through her organization Civil Bikes she leads tours, provides bike education, advocacy for mobility justice, and youth bike camps. Through Save Your Spaces she facilitates skills sharing to involve the everyday person in preservation. She continues to write, think, and challenge the systems governing our quality of life and invites our collective transformation toward just interdependence.

She holds a Master of Heritage Preservation from Georgia State University, a Master of Social Work from New York University, and a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Georgia. She was Scholar in Residence in 2021 with The Atlanta Beltline. Her publications include the chapter Civil Bikes: embracing Atlanta’s racialized history through bicycle tours. (Routledge, 2016, Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for All? Edited by A. Golub, M.L. Hoffmann, A. E. Lugo, and G. F. Sandoval), the book review Whose Bike Lanes, in “Bike Lanes are White Lanes: Urban Planning and Bicycle Infrastructure and Advocacy, and the article “There is a Tremendous Untold Story of Black. People on Bikes” in Bicycling Magazine, August 2020.