There are ordinary people doing extraordinary things all around us. Every day, right in our very own communities. Local residents whose deeds silently ripple through the community. Those multiple hats wearing busy-bees that somehow manage to find time to go the extra mile and change the lives of those around us.

In the city of Chicago, Dr. Lindsay Knight is one of those people. Whether it’s a teenage kid in Chicago’s South Side neighborhood or a woman tipping her toe into the cycling, chances are they will come across Knight’s friendly help.

Knight caught the attention of Ella CyclingTips through her work at Blackstone Bicycle Works, a small, youth-centric non-profit that uses the bicycle as a learning tool and ultimately has a huge impact in one of Chicago’s poorest neighbourhoods. Knight founded and managed a multitude of initiatives that provide educational and vocational opportunities to underserved youth through a hands-on bicycle mechanics curriculum.

Meanwhile, Knight recently obtained her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Chicago, is an avid cyclocross racer and serves as a Rapha women’s ambassador.

I’VE ALWAYS HAD A LITTLE TOO MUCH ENERGY GOING ON, AND CYCLING WAS ACTUALLY WHAT ALLOWED ME TO STAY ANCHORED AND SANE IN GRAD SCHOOL.”

– Linday Knight, Instructor. PhD. Advisory Board Member. Mentor. Rapha Women’s Ambassador. CX Racer for Tenspeed Hero. Year round commuter.

Jen Agan for Ella CyclingTips: Tell us, what are you up to these days?

Lindsay Knight: I’m a History Instructor and Advisor at Hansberry College Prep in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood on the far South Side of Chicago. Prior to this role, I was completing my PhD in Political Science at the University of Chicago and running academic and vocational programming and coaching a kids’ cx team at a youth non-profit (Blackstone Bicycle Works) on the South Side.

I’m also an Advisory Board Member for SXSWedu, a mentor in the Women in Public Service Program at the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, a Rapha Women’s Ambassador, and I race cyclocross for Tenspeed Hero.

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