Ashton Rohmer

Ashton is a third-year PhD candidate at George Mason University’s Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution. As an urban planner by training and a safe streets advocate in her home city of Washington, DC, she is drawn to questions about how our transportation systems shape social interactions - and how our social interactions shape our transportation systems. Specifically, Ashton examines vehicular violence and the conflict system of car supremacy through an interdisciplinary lens and studies how a range of strategies - whether it’s mobilizing bike buses as a form of social movement or tapping into the power of positive message framing to unlock our collective moral imagination - can be leveraged to co-create a more peaceful present for our mobility network. You can learn more by visiting her blog Peace and Planning.