Empowering Women in Shared Mobility

We’re Working with Movmi to improve gender equity in transportation spaces

An idea our team has been working on for a while now is to create self defense safety cards (like the safety procedure cards you find in airplanes) into existing ride-hailing apps like Uber, as well as municipal metro ticketing apps, to give female commuters tools that help disrupt and de-escalate violence, even while help is on the way. Inspired by our subway- and taxi units from Pretty Deadly Self Defense courses, we’ll be building an API key to integrate directly into host apps.

Our goal is to license the API key to private companies as well as municipal ticketing systems, so riders can access safety tips immediately. Creating simple graphics that don’t require language gives access to immigrants as well as tourists and, more importantly for our work, opens up a city and opportunities to girls and women to pursue education, better jobs, and social activities, as well as access to healthcare and senior care, that may be on the other side of town.

My cofounder and I submitted our idea the Empower Women in Shared Mobility program hosted every year by movmi, a shared mobility consulting company in Canada working to promote healthier communities with innovative mobility solutions that increase transportation…