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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>One more thing: I thought you might be interested
in the background of the folks who will present the City Repair workshops:
Jenny, Katrina and Mark:</FONT></DIV>
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<P><BR>Jenny Leis<BR>Co-Director, National Vision<BR>Jenny Leis brings a
comprehensive overview of<BR>sustainability to bear on her work with
diverse<BR>communities within and beyond Portland. Her particular<BR>focus in
every project has been to build<BR>interconnected community partnerships as a
basis for a<BR>stronger social ecology. Her commitment to
community<BR>development reflects her understanding that<BR>sustainability must
have a social foundation. As a<BR>coordinator of City Repair's annual Village
Building<BR>Convergence since 2003, Jenny has overseen the<BR>building of more
than 25 community gathering places.<BR><BR>Katrina Zavalney<BR>Co-Director,
National Outreach<BR>Katrina has been a core member of City Repair since<BR>1999
when she was a co-coordinator of CR's first youth<BR>project, the T-Pony mobile
public square. Since then<BR>she has been involved with youth in many
leadership<BR>capacities including with Olympia's Procession of the<BR>Species,
and the Oregon Country Fair's Youth Program.<BR>Her work at City Repair has also
included Volunteer<BR>Coordination and organizational development.<BR><BR>Mark
Lakeman<BR>Co-Director, Creative Vision<BR>As a co-founder of City Repair, Mark
has overseen it's<BR>development into an organization with national reach.<BR>He
has been involved with almost all of it's projects,<BR>and supports City Repair
work now through traveling,<BR>presenting, and coordinating workshops. He also
likes<BR>to use his hands, so he can often be found out in the<BR>field building
with the communities that City Repair<BR>supports.</P></I></DIV></BODY></HTML>