Our Staff

Teri Duarte, MPH
Executive Director

Formerly a Registered Dietitian, Teri Duarte served as Director of the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program for the County of Sacramento from 1988 to 2011. She oversaw 80 staff who helped families learn about health to improve the lives of children. In 2004, Teri became interested in improving the urban environment to promote human health through increased physical activity in everyday life. She began to work with the Sacramento City and County planning departments to develop policies that lead to development that facilitates walking and bicycling. She helped WALKSacramento launch its Complete Streets Coalition from the Partnership for Active Communities. She served part-time in 2009-10 in the Land Use and Transportation unit of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, helping to incorporate a range of public health concerns into the agency’s project review comment letters on proposed land use projects in the region. Teri has delivered presentations on the health impacts of the built environment to thousands in the Sacramento region, and has been a regular instructor in the City of Sacramento’s Planning Academy. Before joining WALKSacramento she was chair of “Design Sacramento 4 Health,” a group of local physicians and other health professionals advocating for land use and transportation planning that improve public health. Teri has a Master of Public Health from U.C. Berkeley. She has also lived in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.

Anne Geraghty
Policy Consultant

Anne Geraghty, founding president and first executive director of WALKSacramento, works to improve the walkability and pedestrian safety of streets, neighborhoods, schools and colleges in the Sacramento region.  She co-chairs the California Strategic Highway Safety Plan’s Challenge 8 Committee focused on pedestrian safety issues.  Anne received her B.A. from San Jose State and Master of Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Pittsburgh.  Prior to WALKSacramento, Anne worked for the California Air Resources Board on transportation, land use and air quality issues.  Anne grew up in Redwood City where she walked to school each day to Hoover Elementary.

Terry Preston
Complete Streets Coordinator (Safe Routes 5 E’s Program Manager)

Terry Preston has served as a community organizer, advocate and policy wonk on behalf of safe, healthy, active public spaces for over twenty years.  He served as a legislative assistant to Assemblymember Elihu Harris, future mayor of Oakland, then worked on numerous political campaigns to get funding for parks, libraries and open space.  Service as a staff AmeriCorps project manager with the East Bay Conservation Corps in Oakland, California public schools demonstrated the need for healthy, active communities for all children. It was here that Terry took part in his first Walk to School Day event. Terry served as communication director for Greenbelt Alliance, building support for walkable communities, and moved on to serving as a trainer, advocate and transportation policy coordinator with community non-profit Odyssey after moving to Sacramento ten years ago.  Terry came to WALKSacramento from serving as a volunteer parent coordinator of a WALKSacramento-supported Walk to School program in Natomas.  Terry raised funds, organized parents and community members, worked with school staff and developed outreach campaigns for the project.  He now manages WALKSacramento’s Safe Routes 5 E’s program, and the Complete Streets campaign, led by the broad-based Complete Streets Coalition, originally convened by WALKSacramento.  Both programs work toward building more walkable communities for everyone in the Sacramento region.

A native of San Francisco, Terry walked to school, uphill, both ways, starting in first grade, and has continued walking everywhere since.

Chris Holm
Project Analyst (Development Review)

Chris has lived in Sacramento since 1990 – the first ten years in South Natomas and the last ten years in North Natomas.  During that time he enjoyed the childhoods of his two sons, was awarded a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and taught at Sacramento State, helped with walk-to-school programs and tutoring in the Natomas Unified School District, served on the City of Sacramento General Plan Advisory Committee and the boards of directors for the Natomas Community Association and the North Natomas Transportation Management Association.

Chris formed and chaired the Design and Development Review Committee for the Partnership for Active Communities in 2005 and began reviewing development applications for WALKSacramento in 2006.

Chris currently reviews and provides written comments and oral testimony on land use development and transportation projects and policy in the Sacramento area and assists with WALKSacramento’s Safe Routes to School and Complete Streets programs.

Alexis Kelso
Safe Routes Project Coordinator

Alexis grew up in Calaveras County.  She moved to Sacramento in 2008 to attend Sacramento State.  She began working as an intern for WALKSacramento in March 2009 and upon receiving her B.A. in Geography was hired as the Safe Routes Coordinator in May 2009.  Alexis is coordinating the Sacramento Safe Routes to School Conference to be held in late 2011 and is the primary report writer for WALKSacramento’s Safe Routes Five E’s program. She is also developing the Master Plan for the Citrus Heights Safe Routes to School program. She helps with website maintenance.

To contact staff, call 916-446-9255