A Conversation with John Simmerman, Active Towns
Description
John Simmerman, Founrder of Active Towns and Seaside Institute's Executive Director, Christy Milliken dive into active mobility in this episode.
John Simmerman is a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience with concentration that has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior relate to active living and especially active mobility.
In 2012, he launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.
Since that time, he has been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multi-media content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote
a “Culture of Activity” for “All Ages & Abilities”.
His primary platforms are Active Towns YouTube Channel and
the Active Towns Podcast: Conversations About Creating a Culture of Activity.















