Anna Zivarts on Why Nondrivers Should Lead the Urbanist Movement

Jun 12

The urbanist movement loves to talk about car-free living. What it talks about less is the people who never had a choice. Anna Zivarts has spent her career building the case that those people shouldn't be a footnote to this conversation. They're the ones who should be leading it.

Anna Zivarts is the founder of Nondrivers Alliance and author of When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency. Anna co-created the Week Without Driving challenge and directed the Disability Mobility Initiative at Disability Rights Washington.

Chapters:

[00:00] Introduction

[03:17] When the union said "become a researcher"

[06:12] Coming to embrace disability & identity

[11:58] The book as an organizing tool

[16:13] The burden of relying on others for rides

[25:56] Car-free by choice vs nondriver by default

[36:20] Sustainable advocacy

Anna's book
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away From Car Dependency

Bluesky

@nondriver.bsky.social

Hosted by Anna Zivarts and Devin Silvernail. This episode was produced by Devin Silvernail.