Gillian Hotz, Ph.D., is director of the University of Miami KiDZ Neruoscience Center and our WalkSafe and BikeSafe programs. She is also a research professor of neurosurgery at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and is a leading authority on concussion prevention management. Under her leadership, the BikeSafe Program strives to improve safety awareness through innovative research, education, and community outreach.

Dr. Witte is a former competitive triathlete, cyclist, and co-founder of the BikeSafe Program with Dr. Hotz.

In 2013, she founded a grass-roots, completely citizen-led coalition called the Aaron Cohen Road Safety Initiative. Through this coalition, she was able to get the Florida State Legislature to unanimously pass the Aaron Cohen Life Protection Act in 2014, closing a legal loophole previously used by hit-and-run drivers to avoid jail time.

Today, after a​n eight-year hiatus from the program ​to pursue teaching at UM's Gables campus, she is now once again the manager of the BikeSafe Program, and a champion for "complete streets" – streets that are designed to allow for ALL road users to safely traverse them, whether they are on foot, on a bicycle, on a scooter or in a motor vehicle.

Kurt is our in-house multimedia creative, providing us with print and web design, video production, and the animations seen in our "Safe Riding with BikeSafe" educational series. Kurt is also our voice on social media, and is an avid vintage bicycle collector, utility cyclist, and micromobility advocate.