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Deborah Kane, Vice President, Ecotrust's
Food & Farms program
Publisher, Edible Portland
A tireless advocate for sustainable agriculture and food-related industries, Deborah currently serves as vice president of Food & Farms at Ecotrust. In 2003 Deborah was named one of "50 great leaders" in the state of Oregon by Oregon Business Magazine and appointed by Oregon Governor Kulongoski to serve on the Oregon Sustainability Board, a post she held for two years. Deborah is a current board member of Live Wire! radio, a one hour radio show recorded in front of a live studio audience and broadcast bi-weekly on Oregon Public Broadcasting.
She is a past board member of the Portland Public Market, a public-private partnership devoted to building a year-round public market in Portland, Ore. She also served as an advisory board member to the Project for Public Spaces/North American Farm Direct Marketing Association's Diversifying Farmers Markets project and the Western Region Farm to School Network. She was a founding board member of Friends of Zenger Farm, a working urban farm located within Portland's city limits, and continues to provide strategic counsel to numerous for-profit and non-profit initiatives.
But professional affiliations, boards, committees and appointments notwithstanding, perhaps Deborah's greatest accomplishment to date involves parenting two wonderful children along with her husband in southeast Portland. Having been told that pineapples would never be in season in Portland, Deborah's young daughter recently asked when exactly lollipops would be in season. At this moment Deborah knew she was making progress in her efforts to help people both young and old develop a greater sense of where their food comes from. She loves tackling questions about the seasonality of lollipops and other weighty issues on the pages of Edible Portland.
Contact: dkane@ecotrust.org or (503) 467-0763
Ericka Carlson, Marketing and Sales
Manager, Edible Portland
Ericka is a private chef and cooking instructor, and a former advertising
executive. This uncommon mix of skills and interests is a recipe
for success, as she introduces Edible Portland to local food, farming and advertising communities. This native
Oregonian and Portland resident started her culinary career
catering and working with a chef in Los Angeles teaching private
classes for corporations and individuals. She earned her undergraduate
degree from Cornell University and later graduated from the
Culinary Institute of America in New York.
After several years
in the catering business in New York, Ericka was ready to return
home to Oregon. To help fund her culinary pursuits, Ericka also
juggled a career in the fast-paced, creative world of advertising,
racking up more than nine years at nationally recognized agencies
including McCann-Erickson and Rubin Postaer in Los Angeles,
and locally at R/West in Portland. In addition to her job as
marketing and sales manager for Edible Portland, Ericka will
continue to feed her culinary passions as an instructor at In
Good Taste cooking school in Portland's Pearl District. Ericka
loves working with the bounty of farm fresh, local ingredients
available in the Pacific Northwest.
Contact: ecarlson@ecotrust.org or (503) 467-0803
Laura Ford, Managing Editor, Edible Portland
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Contact: lford@ecotrust.org or (503) 467-0806
