Paris Hyun is a trained full-stack Ruby on Rails developer with 15+ years experience in web development, content marketing and project management.

She’s managed complex projects for high profile clients such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and USC’s Graduate School of Engineering from web design to mobile app development.

Since 2019, Paris has shifted her focus to working with small businesses and creatives, helping them tell their personal brand stories and communicate their expertise. She particularly enjoys working with artists, craftsmen, people from historically excluded communities and people in the caring fields such as social work and education.

She is the owner of Spark Media Company, and is proud to be a third generation business owner. She credits the women in her family for her design passion and desire to partner with small business owners.

She became a first-time mother in 2019. As an improv comedy performer, she’s been telling stories on stage since 2006. She shares an office with her associate, Yo-Yo, a less-than-productive rescue dog. Paris is Korean and was raised in the Pacific Northwest.

Kathy is a specialist in the development and launching of new products, strategies and business models. She was an executive at Nike for 7 years as the Divisional Head of New Products and Markets. Kathy runs her own business advisory firm, LongSherpa Design, specializing in new businesses and business transitions since 1987. She has an AB in History and Art from the University of Nebraska, an MA in Anthropology from the University of Nebraska. Kathy obtained her MBA from the University of Oregon with concentrations in Finance and Marketing.Description goes here

Clarity, compassion and community are words that immediately come to mind when friends and colleagues describe Maren Reed. As an advisor, talent and operational executive, and empathetic leader, Maren is known for facing challenges head on. Maren is the founder of HATCH Consulting, a company that works with small to mid-sized independently owned organizations with leaders open to making operational and people-centric changes so their business and employees can thrive. As a trusted and highly sought-after advisor with more than two decades of working with business owners and executives, Maren harnesses her deft operational skills and strategic thinking to steward companies through times of transition and uncertainty. Paired with a brave heart and keen self-awareness, this makes her an invaluable resource to all who know her. Her insightful approach leads to modern and innovative talent strategies and programs that result in workplaces that are more equitable and inclusive and where employees feel truly respected and valued. Based in Hood River with her husband and two energetic sons, Maren and her family can be found outside exploring trails by foot or by bike.

“I earned a Master’s Degree in Conflict Resolution from Portland State University in 2007 and have worked internationally and locally in the field of education. You can catch me telling my own stories or playing on stage with my improvisation trio, Broke Gravy. 

Regardless of where I am or what I’m doing, I’m committed to engaging with the communities around me and living a full and purposeful life filled with laughter, creativity and surprises.

I have spent well over a decade on the front lines helping to educate youth in the public school system. What I quickly discovered was that they had just as much to teach me. 

You can’t fake it with kids, they demand authenticity and they’re also very forgiving of mistakes. 

Working with young people has been an invaluable lesson in how I want to live my life. 

I’ve taken the skills gained from listening to and collaborating with youth and transferred that into the work and energy I put into Front Porch Sessions and my workshops. I want everyone I have contact with to understand that not only do they have a story inside of them but they have an amazing story to tell.“

Educator, Storyteller, Workshop Leader

Eileen Brady has been active in the Oregon civic community for three decades and has twenty-five years experience in the natural foods retail grocery industry, developing human resources and sustainability-based brand development and marketing programs. Her civic involvement has included experience leading non-profits, serving on policy boards, fundraising for political and civic projects. Eileen cut her teeth in the natural foods industry originally as a Board member at the Olympia Food Coop and Co-Director of the Puget Sound Coop Federation. She then served as Human Resources Director at Nature’s fresh Northwest in Portland, Oregon. She founded the Food and Farm Program as Vice President at Ecotrust, a non-profit providing conservation and economic development leadership from Alaska to California. Eileen and her husband are one of the three families that co-founded New Seasons Market in 1999. In addition, Eileen spent six years as Operations Director at a fast growing tech start-up. She has served on civic boards including, Zenger Farm, Celilo Group Media (The ChinookBook), the Portland Metro Blue Ribbon Active Transportation Commission, the Oregon Health Policy Board and Oregon Solutions. In 2015, she co-founded a women’s collective giving circle, ninety-nine girlfriends, that now has 500 members. Eileen and her husband, Brian, currently live on Heart Island Farm out Reed Road in Hood River where they have a cherry and pluot orchards that they are transitioning to organic. They have four grown children, two grandchildren and three loveable and not so loveable barn cats.

Anne has been practicing employment law for more than three decades, emphasizing advice and counsel in all areas of management employment law; defense of state and federal agency charges and civil lawsuits involving discrimination, wage and hour, whistle blowing and independent contractor classification; conducting internal harassment and discrimination investigations; and conducting employee training and education. Anne also advises non-profit organizations in board governance matters.

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