STAFF
Gailmarie Kimmel, Co-Director
Hill Grimmett, Co-Director
Cindy Roberts, Office Manager/Member Services

Claudia Eberspacher, Be Local Coupon Book Manager
Rich Gentile, Business Membership
Scott Hapner, Business Program Development

ASSOCIATES
Matt Price, Webmaster, Design By Price
Ralf Kracke-Berndorff, Filmmaker, Reflexive Films
Dan Bihn, Photographer, New Energy Marketing

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Susie Gordon
Senior Environmental Planner with City of Fort Collins Natural Resources Department since 1992, has managed programs designed to meet the community’s adopted goal of diverting half its waste from landfill disposal through actions that include recycling, re-use, composting, and source reduction.  Long active in state-wide organizations, Susie received the Colorado Association for Recycling 2008 Volunteer of the Year Award.

Hill Grimmett
Founder, Northern Colorado Food Incubator  (see Staff bio)

Paul Jensen
Owner, One Tribe Creative, founded The Jensen Group in 1985, which developed successful branding strategies and campaigns for notable organizations such as the U.S. Olympic Committee, Hewlett Packard, MCI, and Florsheim. With a deep desire to brand and market products and services for socially and environmentally responsible organizations, Paul reorganized as One Tribe Creative in 2001.

Gailmarie Kimmel
Founder, Be Local/Living Economy  (see Staff bio)

Robert Leja
Director of Corporate Support & Marketing, KUNC-FM Radio for Northern Colorado, is a 14 year veteran of Northern Colorado media and marketing.  His experience includes sales management positions with Regent Broadcasting, The Fort Collins Coloradoan, and The Northern Colorado Business Report before joining KUNC in 2006.  Under Robert’s direction, KUNC has partnered with various regional arts, cultural, and environmental organizations including The Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair, Earthworks Expo, Fort Collins Farmers Markets, and more.

Robert Mann
Co-Director of Shadowcliff, an eco-friendly mountain lodge in Grand Lake, CO, calls Fort Collins home the rest of the year. Bob practiced business law in Kansas City for over twenty-five years before founding  “Sustainability Series.”

Dawn Thilmany-McFadden
Professor, Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Colorado State University. Also, Farm Foundation Fellow, Rural Community Viability. In 2006-2007, Interim Program Leader, Organics, USDA CSREES, Washington D.C. Dawn has worked and done research in areas of interest including agritourism, economic development and founded Crops to Cuisine, a farm-to-chef distribution program.