Jonathan Matz serves as California Senior Policy Manager for the Safe Routes Partnership. In this role, he works to promote state and local policies that facilitate active transportation and safe streets. Additionally, he advises governments and agencies in low-income communities on safe streets policy and helps them build capacity and secure funding for Safe Routes to School infrastructure and planning through California's Active Transportation Program and other sources.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jonathan worked as Southern California Regional Organizer at the Progressive Jewish Alliance in Los Angeles, leading campaigns for carwash worker rights, inclusionary zoning, and to end food deserts. In 2010, he left for New York, where he earned his master’s degree in urban planning at New York University before serving as Senior Policy Analyst and Campaign Coordinator at Move NY, a campaign for toll reform and sustainable transit funding in the New York metropolitan area.

He returned to Los Angeles in 2017 to join the Safe Routes Partnership and loves to ride his bike and hike in the Hollywood Hills and Santa Monica and San Gabriel with his wife and daughter. One day, he hopes to pick up his clarinet again and continue learning the art of bicycle frame building (he’s built one bamboo frame, and one steel frame).