About Me

2015 family photo taken by Bethany Schiedel

A former ESL teacher, linguistics nerd & graduate of the Simon Fraser University Public Relations Certificate Program, I've always loved writing & teaching.

I published my first 'mom blog', The Sprog, when I was pregnant with my son in 2010. Since then, I was nominated as of Vancouver Mom's Top 30 Bloggers of 2012 & our little family has grown from three to four. Spokesmama was born out of the realization that I wanted to shift away from purely personal blogging & toward more advocacy.

While I still write about my life & my family on Spokesmama, I aim to focus more on family cycling, car-sharing, living green & being engaged in my community. 

I'm a Blogger Ambassador for Modo, Vancouver's first carsharing co-operative, as well as Rebecca Page Patterns.

In addition to writing here, I'm a bike education coordinator for HUB Cycling, I'm a volunteer pilot for the Vancouver chapter of Cycling Without Age, & I lead group family rides & for Vancouver Family Biking, facilitate the ABCs of Family Biking workshops, & plan annual family & cargo biking events.

Contact me by email at lisa @ spokesmama . com.

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@thespokesmama on TikTok
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Speaker At...

Shift Into Winter: A Celebration of Winter Cycling | Two Wheel View Web Panel

18 November 2021

E-bikes: Harnessing their potential to get more people biking | HUB Cycling Webinar

6 October 2021

Better Cities Film Festival | Motherload Q & A Panel

11 October 2020

Breaking Down Barriers to Active Transportation: Lived Experience & Action Items for Policy Change | Active Transportation Summit
17 June 2019

Kerrisdale Family Biking Workshop
31 May 2019

HUB Bike Awards 
28 February 2019

Spoke Up: Let's Talk Bikes | A HUB Cycling 20th Anniversary 
27 September 2018

Modo Annual General Meeting
18 April 2018

HUB Bike Awards (read my speech in blog post form here)
22 February 2018

CycleHack Vancouver
24 June 2016

Featured Blogger at the YVR Bloggers Meetup
11 December, 2013 (19:34-24:46 in the video)



Interviewed in...

Modo's 25th Anniversary: What's your Modo memory?

June 2022

Biking in Vancouver, BC with Spokesmama Lisa Corriveau

20 September 2021, Episode 581 of Sprocket Podcast

On cycling in Vancouver
6 July 2020, Totally Spoke'd, CICK 93.9 FM

Disabled People Ride Bikes (and Trikes, and Tandems and Recumbents)!
Created for NACTO’s Bike Share and Cities for Cycling Roundtable 
9 June 2020, Rooted in Rights



Biking For Transportation With Lisa Corriveau (aka Spokesmama)
16 March 2020, Femme Cyclist

Episode 1 Move.Commute.Connect
December 2019, BC Alliance for Healthy Living Podcast

Multimodal Member Feature - Lisa Corriveau
19 November 2019, Mobi | Shaw Go

Focus on Safety During Bike to Work Week
22 May 2019, Speaking of Safety: Conversations about Workplace Health & Safety

Meet our instructors: Lisa

19 February 2019, HUB Cycling News

Women in Urbanism: Lisa Corriveau
10 April 2018, Modacity

Women Who Inspire: Spokesmama's Lisa Corriveau
6 December 2017, She Rides Her Bike

Active Transportation Advocacy with Lisa Corriveau
3 October 2017, Family Pedals podcast

Oh So Precious Cargo
22 January 2016, Metro News Vancouver

Gut Bacteria May Protect Against Asthma in Infants
30 September 2015, CTV National

Community Cruiser with Steph Florian 
14 June 2014, News 1130
(audio no longer available)

DaddyBlogger TV
9 December 2013, DaddyBlogger.com

Canadian Public Relations Society Student Profiles: Lisa Corriveau
20 March 2013, CPRS Vancouver

5 shopping challenges to consider this holiday season
By Armina Ligaya, 6 December 2012, CBC Online

The Real Real Housewives of Vancouver: Lisa Corriveau
27 November 2012, The Thirties Grind 

The Roundup: Top 25 Canadian Moms
7 November 2012, Circle of Moms

Blogger Profile: Lisa Corriveau
By Rebecca Bollwitt, 15 October 2012, Miss 604

Talking With the Experts - Lisa Corriveau
By Eschelle Westwood, 5 September 2012, Poor Bride

Motherhood Reinvented: Changing Diapers and Changing Careers
By Daniela Ginta, Fall 2012, Urban Baby & Toddler Magazine, p.24-25

Do Car Shares Reduce a City's Footprint?
Fleets of Modo, Zipcar and Car2go reinvent the transport wheel in Vancouver streets.
By Adam Pez, 31 Jul 2012, TheTyee.ca


Published In

“How Much Can You Carry in That?” and Other Icebreakers
Momentum Magazine, October 2016

I Love Transit 2016 | Spokesmama Guest Post: Camping Via Transit

The Buzzer Blog, September 2016

50 Shades of Biking
We Cycle, British Columbia Cycling Coalition News Magazine, May 2015. Cover & page 5

 EDC: XL: Lisa Corriveau, Blogger at The Sprog
Erin at Large, 28 November 2012

Vlogger for Telus For WE DAY 
October 2012

Cycling in Style
Little Miss Mama, 20 July 2012

Awards 

Vancouver Mom Top 30 Bloggers 2012

Circle of Moms Top 25 Canadian Moms 2012

 







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