Who We Are

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Kelley Carmichael Casey, PsyD, Executive Director

Kelley started her relationship with SCRAP in 2005 and found her true calling. She has followed a variety of career paths including consumer research at Wieden + Kennedy, private practice in behavioral health and, since 2006, nonprofit management. She loves working with the smart, dedicated and creative staff at SCRAP. She has a Doctor of Psychology degree from George Fox University; MA in Counseling from University of Portland; and a Certificate in Nonprofit Management from the University of Texas at Austin. She has contributed to several publications including the Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers/Volumes 1 and 2. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Reuse Alliance, is a board advisor to Austin Creative Reuse, and is chair of the steering committee for the national Creative Reuse Association (a project of the Reuse Alliance). Kelley is a Certified Master Recycler, Certified Master Reuser, and an AmeriCorps alumnus. She is the co-author of The Social Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting a Creative Reuse Center with Alyssa Kail.

Stephanie Stoller, Portland Director

Walking through the door at SCRAP still brings Stephanie a sense of excitement… she never knows what is going to inspire her! A lifelong crafter, Stephanie feels the most satisfaction when she’s creating something beautiful and practical from repurposed materials. A graduate of the University of Oregon, Stephanie has spent her professional career in the nonprofit sector, working to make the world a better place through social justice, literacy and environmental sustainability efforts. Working at SCRAP is a perfect blend of her professional and personal passions. When she’s not creating something, you’ll find Stephanie enjoying her family, gardening, reading or traveling.

STAFF

	Maxwell Benedetti, Retail Specialist Maxwell started volunteering at SCRAP in June 2005. Maxwell has been an artist his whole life, working in painting, collage, music, writing, and design. He finds SCRAP a source of endless inspiration in his own artistic endeavors and in its service to other artists, teachers, and the general public. In his spare time, he enjoys film, reading, cats, and spending time in nature. He is very happy to be working in an organization that shares his beliefs in creative reuse.
	Tim Combs, Business Outreach Coordinator Tim is excited to work for SCRAP because it allows him to channel his lifelong free pile obsession into the worthy cause of inspirational creative reuse. In the last 10 years, he has been making art as a way to do social activism after years of working in non-profits. He loves connecting with communities and audiences throughout the region in an effort to show them that aesthetic beauty is everywhere and that all materials can be shaped into art. He uses art as a focal point for conversations of reuse, sustainability, and community connection. Tim continues to widen his message to show that reclamation extends beyond the simple object to concepts, people, and ways of life that our culture also discards or overlooks.
Photo coming soon!	Endever Corbin, Retail Specialist/Housekeeper In recent history, Endever Corbin has enjoyed several years working in local nonprofits. Further back, their Oregon childhood hobbies included sorting shiny buttons, carefully sifting through sandboxes, and “rescuing” rainwater from going down the storm drains. After years of volunteering at SCRAP (sorting shiny buttons, sifting through donations, and rescuing bits of recycling from the trash), working here is the clearly the next step. Meanwhile, Endever crafts, reads, writes, adopts shiny objects otherwise destined for landfills, and generally stays busy being a complete nerd. Passersby are hereby warned not to mention chocolate, social justice, or certain fandoms in Endever’s presence if feeling unprepared for extreme enthusiasm.
	Dryden Driggers, Retail Coordinator Dryden began volunteering with SCRAP in November 2010 after moving to Portland from Atlanta, and became part of the staff in July 2011. She has an M.A. in Humanistic Psychology from the University of West Georgia, but decided to pursue outlets other than traditional counseling. Dryden has volunteered with organizations such as Circle K International, the Georgia Aquarium, the Portland Etsy Team, Child Spirit Institute, and I Heart Art: Portland. A SCRAPper since childhood, she was encouraged early on to use the things that others would normally discard and turn them into new and lovely pieces. While she likes to dabble in all things creative, her favorite crafty pursuits are jewelry making, knitting and interior decorating. Outside of SCRAP, Dryden loves to dance, has a regular bowling night, and likes swimming in Portland’s rivers and lakes on every sunny, warm day she can.
	Lisa LeDoux, Education Program Manager Lisa began volunteering at SCRAP in July 2010 and worked in the SCRAP retail store from June 2011-June 2012. She previously worked for Advantage Marketing and volunteered at Mill Park Elementary School, instructing art projects in a second grade classroom. Lisa has a Bachelor’s degree in Art and a Minor in Asian Art History from University of Oregon. She enjoys being creative and incorporating SCRAP materials in metal sculpture, collage, and costume making. Her favorite thing about SCRAP is the endless possibilities.
	Caitlin Sills, Materials Specialist Caitlin has been pairing reuse and craft ever since high school when she learned to sew. The result was one amazing pair of corduroy patchwork pants culled from thrift store castoffs. Ever since, she had tried to first reduce, then reuse, in many areas of her life, especially creatively. Caitlin began volunteering for SCRAP in 2012 and knew immediately she was in the midst of like-minded people. As a Materials Specialist at SCRAP, she is partially fulfilling her childhood ambition of being an archeologist and is constantly creatively inspired. Caitlin has a B.S. in World Religions and likes to sew, paint, make jewelry, and collect old and beautiful things.
	Sanne Stienstra, Operations Manager Sanne manages various day-to-day happenings at SCRAP, from daily sales reporting and social media, to managing the membership program and assisting with event planning. Originally from Southern California, Sanne began volunteering at SCRAP in January 2010 following graduation from Lewis & Clark College. After earning a Bachelor’s degree in English and dabbling in journalism, Sanne found solace in championing creative reuse and working to fulfill SCRAP’s mission. She became SCRAP’s events intern in October 2010 and then took her current position in April 2011. Sanne has volunteered with MusicfestNW and Wordstock, and currently serves as PDX Pop Now!‘s fundraising coordinator.
	Sarah Geo Walton, Retail Specialist Growing up in the Nevada desert, Sarah learned very early how to make do with what was already available. Being surrounded by nothing and no one made for an instant DIY attitude and reusing every last resource a big part of her childhood. A good portion of her toys were made out of sticks and with her brother’s help, she made forts covered in bones found in the desert. Sometime in her early teen years Sarah moved to Reno, where she discovered music in basements, zines, and thrift stores. This culture eventually led to the start of an independent publishing collective Go For Broke Collective with a friend and the planning of many DIY events. Sarah’s mind was blown by the discovery of SCRAP during one of her visits to Portland, Oregon. She started plans to open her very own creative reuse center in Reno. When those plans fell through in 2012, she decided to move to Portland where she began volunteering at SCRAP and a few months later became part of the staff. She enjoys the wild outdoors, fringe, silly costumes, things made out of string, rusty metal, knee sliding dance parties, and her weird dog Kilgore Trout.
	Stephanie Weber, Store Manager Stephanie began volunteering at SCRAP in 2007 after she moved to Portland from Indiana. After many years in the field of horticulture, she decided to refocus on her creative side. Beyond her job at SCRAP, she also has a small craft business making toys and accessories all out of reclaimed materials. Working at SCRAP fulfills Stephanie’s desire to be environmentally responsible, feeds her creativity, and never leaves her lacking a challenge to be tackled.
	Alex Zielinski, Materials Specialist Alex began volunteering at SCRAP in May 2012, after falling in love with reused creations while volunteering at MECCA, Eugene’s reuse art center. Raised in the Northern California redwoods, Alex found her way to Portland after graduating from the University of Oregon journalism school. When she’s not getting crafty at SCRAP, Alex writes stories on social, environmental, and local political issues for Street Roots and the Portland Mercury. In her spare time, you can find her biking around town, eating burritos, fawning over vintage ephemera, making silly embroideries, collaging postcards for friends or strangers and exploring the wild Northwest outdoors.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

	Debbie Caselton, Chair Debbie works in Community Relations for the City of Portland’s Bureau of Environmental Services. She also serves as the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Diverse and Empowered Employees of Portland (DEEP). In her spare time, Debbie enjoys crafting with reused items, especially found objects, collage, books, and cards.
Photo coming soon!	Ken Edwards, At Large Ken Edwards is the Board Chair of the Starseed Foundation. Ken and his lovely wife, Annie, are long-time community supporters. The Starseed Foundation is a private charitable foundation dedicated to supporting and fostering art opportunities for children, as well as supporting art, dance, music and environmental education in Portland and nationally. Ken brings board and community engagement experience to SCRAP. Ken and Annie enjoy traveling the world and coming home to the tall trees and the vibrant art culture of the Pacific Northwest.
Photo coming soon!	Sara Friedman, Secretary Sara began volunteering at SCRAP in 2011 as a way to reconnect with the Portland community after living abroad for some time. She is an educator and a creative reuser at heart. Her work has kept her involved in the curriculum design and development of various language teaching and training programs. Sara currently teaches English to speakers of other languages at Portland State University and Portland Community College, where her favorite thing to do is cheer students on. In her spare time, she can be found carving linoleum blocks and printing them on any found surface that will take ink! Sara is excited to play a role on SCRAP’s Board of Directors.
	Owen William Fritts, At Large Owen is founder and president of Portland, Oregon-based SOLIDCORE, a design and fabrication firm focused on simplicity, modernity and earth responsible practices. He speaks globally on green design and trend for educational institutions, corporations and conferences. He also teaches a unique combination of awareness, team building and creativity exploration through his earthAWARE and openMOTION workshops, an initiative that takes teams of kids or adults from ideation to sketching to physically building small structures made from organic and reclaimed materials. Owen William Fritts is a renowned artist and also serves the design community as a Board Member of the Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles and as a graduate program mentor at The Pacific Northwest College of Art.
	Betsy Goodman, Vice Chair Elizabeth (Betsy) Goodman is a paralegal in litigation at Tonkon Torp LLP. She moved to Portland from suburban Minneapolis many years ago to attend Reed, where in her junior year her art professor almost convinced her to change her major from psychology to studio art. Extra terms and tuition aside, interest did not correlate with promise, and so she remained outside the arts world until she became a SCRAP volunteer in early 2006 and joined the SCRAP board in early 2007. Betsy is a founding member and former chair of the Tonkon Torp Sustainability Committee, a member of the Oregon Lawyers for a Sustainable Future Office Practices Committee, and a one-time Master Recycler and Eco-team Coach. Her interests include hiking, snowshoeing, cooking, reading and sustainable farming.
	Denise Phua, At Large Denise made her continental move to Portland at the end of 2011, after a 15-year career in advertising, film, and music. Originally from sunny Singapore, she has worked with companies globally and loves engaging in different cultures. Denise has since hung up the hat which belongs to the commercial world, and now spends her time brewing ideas in this crafty city, creating events such as “Tiny Beautiful Things,” a fundraiser for SCRAP’s Education Annex, at the end of Autumn 2012. She aims to put her nursing degree back to use some day, but for now, is collaborating with international artists and curators for an exciting mission, soon to be revealed! Denise also enjoys a daily dose of six-mile runs and training her puppies to be good canine citizens. She believes in thinking global, acting local, and helping to change the world, one scrap at a time.
	Kate Stock, Treasurer Kate is an Oregon licensed Certified Public Accountant with nine years of progressive experience in accounting and finance, primarily in the public company sector. Kate balances her left brain career with a diversity of creative outlets and enjoys using found and recycled objects to create art that is both accessible and inspiring. Kate has a deep fondness for math and science, which often manifests through kitchen science experiments with her kids. Kate has been a SCRAP customer ever since she moved to Portland and is thrilled to be a part of the SCRAP community.