About Us
Our Board of Directors
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Michelle Grandy, Chair Michelle currently serves as Communications and Think Local First Program Manager for Bellingham Nonprofit Sustainable Connections. She’s also Vice President of Hypoluxo Industries Inc., and gets her hands in tons of other local events and campaigns. |
| Gaye Green, Vice Chair Currently chair of the Art Department at Western Washington University, Gaye began her career as an elementary art teacher. The kids have gotten bigger, but Gaye’s as dedicated as ever to helping young people tap their talents using the visual arts. She also helps raise money for animal rescue groups around town. |
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Paul Turpin, Treasurer Our jack-of-all-music-trades. Owner of Bellingham’s Clickpop Records, Paul has experience as a recording engineer, producer and studio owner, live sound engineer (currently at The Shakedown), touring musician and touring road manager. He also serves as a Board member of the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival. Whew. |
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Bruce Hamilton, Secretary Bruce is an Associate Professor of Music at Western Washington University. He ico-directs the Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival, in addition to the Bellingham special events organization Sound Culture. Bruce is also on the Board of Directors of the Washington Composers Forum, an administrator for online music community ImprovFriday, and owner of net label Spectropol Records. Dis we mention he’s also a freelance composer and musician? |
Our Staff!
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Cat Sieh, Director Cat left her career job as a journalist in 2008 to focus on make.shift (and to become as broke as the musicians make.shift is trying to help.) She wades through bureaucracy and spends a lot of time on the telephone and internet for make.shift. |
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Audra Robson, Operations Manager Audra is loud enough to spread the word about make.shift to just about everyone in town. She’s our unofficial booking agent, flyering guru, and all-around promoter. |
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Marisa Lee, Volunteer Coordinator In addition to directing volunteers, Marisa pretty much rules at paperwork, bureaucracy, what have you. She is generally much more professional than the rest of us. |
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Zach Zinn, Practice Space Program Coordinator Zach, a Bellingham musician playing in several bands, schedules the practice spaces at Jinx Art Space and generally helps keep the natives happy. |
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Katie Hagerman Katie is our trusty accountant and financial go-to lady. |
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JD Martin and Buddy Savage JD and Buddy, electricians at Bellingham’s Mac&Mac Electric, built the POWER WHEEL for us, and help us out by setting it up and supervising it at shows. |
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Riley Hoonan, Graphic Designer He’s a maker of things, curator of creatives, designer of graphics, and marketing monsieur. He likes collaborating and helping people who are doing rad things, and frequently helps Make.Shift with promotional posters and other graphic delights. |
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June Hathaway, Grant Writer June devotes an ungodly amount of time to seeking out big-picture funding for Make.Shift’s projects. Man oh man we love her. |
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Caroline Dick, Gallery Coordinator Somehow we were lucky enough that Bellingham just happened to be where Caroline decided to stop driving on her exodus from California, where she developed her art and gallery background. She has a tendency to say ridiculous things and make us laugh.
Sky Hester, Power Wheel Coordinator Sky most certainly must have fallen from the sky, he’s the savior of our Power Wheels.
Charlie Powers With Charlie on your side, how can you go wrong?
Kara Marklin Kara keeps Jinx tip top, and is the one responsible for that great post-cleaning lavendar-y smell. She is absolutely delightful and will also be helping to lead our new Gallery Committee in developing future art shows and gallery improvements.
Jacob Thompson We couldn’t figure out what to say about Jacob because he’s basically amazing at everything we throw his way.
Tom Smith Often the first one that comes to mind when we need someone conscientious and handy. Tom rules and he’s so NICE all the time!
Sid Villasana, Videographer Sid produced, directed and edited the 2010 Kickstarter video that helped us raise more than $11,000 toward our programs in less than two months. She regularly helps us out on various video projects.
Scott Rickey Scott has done more graphic design for Make.Shift than we care to mention. He designed our logo, printed out t-shirts and won our hearts long ago. Check out his stuff at the Sweat Shop, his art studio, next to Honey Moon in downtown Bellingham.
Matt McDonald Matt is from the future and every non-profit needs someone from the future. He maintains our website and helps us with other nerd-related issues.
