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About me

Kachina Katrina* is an extraordinary organizer, community builder, event planner/ greener, and consultant for organizational development. She is currently creating a community organizers tool kit for inspired people who want to do something about the problems in this world, and don't know where to start, this kit outlines specific practices and resources to get the job done!!

A natural problem solver, Katrina creates experiences where people can shine and highlight areas of improvement through simple solutions that makes transitions easy. She has worked in various capacities from business infrastructure formation to volunteer coordination for various projects and events. She has been heavily involved in community endeavors since she was young and is always in service to the greater good.

As a grass-roots organizer, deeply rooted in any community she joins and works with, Kachina Katrina* synchronizes with the indigenous heart beat and inspires people to achieve more. She has a gentle push that motivates people from deep inside. She loves to be involved in progressive communities that facilitate systemic change. Kachina Katrina* has been referred to as a master networker, connecting broad spectrum's of people together through important issues and innovative solutions. She has learned and practiced community building and organizing skills with the City Repair project in Portland, OR since 1999, becoming their national outreach coordinator.She's a west coast babe who is highly involved in localization movements, and contributes to the core of many emerging sustainable solutions for creating a healthy planet for the year 2020.

Look for her articles, updates, blogs and more on About Us, Omidyar, Reality Sandwich, and tribe and a few more popping up.

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• Kachina Katrina coordinates events for the Urban Alliance for Sustainability in San Francisco, CA. The next event is a cob building workshop on June 30th in SF, CA.

• Kachina da greena has become an instigator in greening events such as Burning Man and is currently the volunteer coordinator for the green team at this large-scale festival in late Aug. This is a Leave No Trace Event, and seeks not only to minimize the impact in the desert but also to understand our impact beyond its boundaries.

• Kachina will be coordinating speakers for Earth Dance International in the Bay area this fall.

• She is greening the hardware industry with Plan-it Hardware and connecting the dots in-between.

• Kachina has a focus on localization, utilizing the resources in a community of place, and connected to the Post Carbon instituteand Livability Livability Project. She see's this as a solution to the world's problem with oil, to connect people beck to the land and resources for healthier living with less of a carbon footprint. Her community organizers toolkit has resources for the re-localization endeavors.

• She is working with James Kalin, a green developer on turning a mobile home park into an eco village in Napa Valley, Katrina is the community organizer. They are using a high gross agricultural techniques called spin farming and will be transferring these practices to the East Bay in CA to bring healthier food to the people that need it.

• Kachina Katrina believes in social justice and responsibility and does organizational development with a group in Oakland called Education Not Incarceration, which is rapidly expanding and recently joined forces with the National Education Association and building affiliate chapters across CA and the nation. She volunteers with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, CA, and supports Village Focus International, a non-profit that creates sustainable solutions for villages in third world countries and combats issues such as trafficking. Their founder is a 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Finalist.

Katrina is a sought after magician and happy to participate in experiences where she can be of the most service spreading her positive message of love and abundance.

There's a lot happening now that we're all connecting ;)

Love the life you live and live the life you love~ share it with others. Cheers to community!!

People I work with

social networking

• Omidyar.net -- profile

• Tribe.net -- profile

• WiserEarth.org -- profile

• LinkedIn.com -- profile

• Zaadz.com -- profile

• TribalHarmonix.org -- profile

contact me

mobile world: 503-459-1345

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