Walk Leader Registration 

We ask all Walk Leaders to fill out our registration form – this helps us get a sense of your walk, and we use this info to promote your walk. 

Questions? Want to workshop your walk idea? Send us an email! 

Register as a walk leader here.

 Who can lead a Jane’s Walk? 

Anyone can lead a Jane’s Walk because everyone is an expert on the places they live, work, and play. Jane Jacobs believed that the people best equipped to understand cities and make decisions about them are “ordinary, interested citizens”. Jane’s Walk Leaders help people get to know their communities by gathering people outside of their homes, offices, and cars to exchange knowledge, tell stories, and share experiences.

What makes a walk a Jane’s Walk?

Jane’s Walks are often walks, but they can also be bike rides, poetry readings, performance art, games, and more! There are three things that make a walk a Jane’s Walk:

Free, volunteer-led, and open to everyone - There can be no registration, fee, or donation associated with leading or participating in a Jane’s Walk.

Non-commercial and non-partisan - They cannot be used to promote a business or a candidate running for office.

Seek to promote dialogue - Jane’s Walks are dialogues that seek to engage participants in conversation. They are not walking lectures.

Check out this promo video to learn more. 

Do you run workshops to teach walk leaders how to prepare their walks? 

Yes! We usually run between 1-3 'walkshops' in-person and virtually every year in March-April to prepare potential walk leaders to lead a walk. Walkshops include practical considerations as well as instruction on how to adapt ideas to the walk format, time for workshopping with other walk leaders, and a live demonstration of a Jane's Walk.  Check out our Schedule page to find out about upcoming walk shops. 

How will people know to come to my walk? 

We will advertise your walk on our Schedule page, as well as on our social media and through our mailing list. No registration is required, so we're not able to guarantee any minimum or maximum participant limits. 

Can you share some examples of past walks? 

Jane’s Walks are often walking dialogues, but they can also be bike rides, poetry readings, performance art, games, and more! Here are some examples of popular walks from previous years.