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# Presidential face lift
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/presidential-face-lift/
- Published: 2006-02-28T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:18:46.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Real Estate & Housing, Santa Monica, #archive-import

will help build affordable housing in five locations, including Lawrence, Kan., and Hopland, Calif. In order to participate in the trip, each rider must raise at least $4,000 to help fund student-led affordable housing efforts nationwide.

“Bike & Build is an innovative organization that encourages young adults to get involved in the affordable housing cause in an exciting way,” said Bike & Build Executive Director Amelia Hanley. “Our riders are motivated and driven to succeed, and these are just the type of young people we need leading the way to eradicate poverty housing.”

The program offers five trips each summer departing from cities on the Eastern Seaboard and ending in four West Coast destinations. On bicycles, the 18-to 25-year-olds will see first-hand the affordable housing need in the country and meet with local officials and community members along the way.

“I’m extremely eager to challenge myself physically, as well as make a positive community impact,” Dearborn said. “I think the magnitude of a cross-country trip on a bicycle underlines the magnitude of the affordable housing crisis our country faces. I welcome the challenge and am very excited to fundraise for the cause.”

Dearborn is a graduate of Marlborough School in Los Angeles and is in her third year at Brown University in Providence. She is studying English literature and is involved in the community as a Peer Leader in her residence hall. A member of the women’s crew team, she is a national scholar athlete, and has competed in the varsity event in two NCAA championship regattas, winning the championship as a freshman in 2004\. In the future, Dearborn hopes to continue her passion for athletics and community involvement by coaching high school athletes.

Based in New York City, Bike & Build is a non-profit organization that encourages young adults to address the country’s affordable housing crisis through organizing cross-country bicycle trips. Trip participants support the affordable housing cause through fundraising and building efforts. Since 2001, Bike & Build has contributed $442,804 to housing groups to fund projects planned and executed by young adults in the U.S.

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(Photo: Fabian Lewkowicz/Daily Press)

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on February 28, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/022806.pdf?ref=smdp.com)