Researcher

Ethan C. Campbell (he/him) is a community advocate who is passionate about using research to drive change towards a safer and more equitable transportation system. He organizes with Whose Streets? Our Streets! and Central Seattle Greenways, a part of the citywide Seattle Neighborhood Greenways coalition. He has served on Real Change Homeless Empowerment Project’s Board of Directors since 2023.

In addition to pushing for safer bike and pedestrian infrastructure in Seattle with the Greenways coalition, Ethan has advanced efforts to move away from enforcement-centric approaches that have disproportionately harmed communities of color. He co-led the Helmet Law Working Group, a coalition formed in 2020 to address local inequities in traffic stops of bicyclists. For his contributions that led to the repeal of King County’s bicycle helmet law, he was named the 2021 Policy Volunteer of the Year by Cascade Bicycle Club and received Greenways’ Rising Leadership Award. He has contributed research for the Free to Walk WA campaign to reform jaywalking laws in Washington through proposed legislation in 2023 (Senate Bill 5383) and 2024. He is currently a participant in a national stakeholder group convened by the Road to Zero Coalition to examine equity issues with speed safety cameras, as well as another convened by Vision Zero Network, Center for Policing Equity, and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Health and Social Policy to explore best practices for modernizing traffic safety enforcement.

Outside of this work, Ethan is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington.