Kimberly Huntress Inskeep is a Seattle-based freelance writer, editor, and transportation advocate. She is writing The Transit Trekker Manual as a manual to help other nondrivers more easily access the outdoors near and far and a manifesto for improved rural mobility and transportation equity. 

She has been the managing editor of Ideas at Work, where she translated business and economics research into plain language for policy makers and the public. As the Business Network Writer for PeopleForBikes she wrote about the economic benefits of bicycling and bicycling infrastructure. More recently she has written on e-bike policy for PeopleForBikes. As a Fellow at the Disability Mobility Initiative (DMI), she contributed to the Transportation for Everyone Storymap and drafted the groundbreaking Transportation Access for Everyone white paper; she was the engagement manager for DMI’s 2022 Week Without Driving and supported the campaign’s expansion into the National Week Without Driving. She has been a National AIDS Fund AmeriCorps volunteer, a paralegal, a house manager for a community theater, a writing tutor, a DJ, a barista, a school Safety Patrol crossing guard, managed academic summer camps for middle schoolers, and more.

She holds an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a B.A. from The Evergreen State College. She lives in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood with her partner, Rod, and their two adopted cats, AliceLynx and Kaleo.

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