Author

Kathryn Hyde works in the field of environmental sustainability and zero-waste education. She has 25 years’ experience developing and coordinating recycling, reuse, and compost programs for Bay Area businesses and nonprofit organizations. She was recycling coordinator at UCSF for many years, developing a waste management program with a team of dedicated professionals. Her work includes presentations and project management within large and small institutions. In her art career, she creates sculptures from found cardboard and construction debris.

Collaborators

Nikki Collister is a technical content manager by day and a freelance journalist and blogger in her spare time. Her local reporting and personal essays can be found in Hoodline, Underscore_SF, and The San Franciscan magazine.

Annakai Hayakawa Geshlider has covered community news for the L.A.-based Japanese-English newspaper The Rafu Shimpo and the Pasadena Star-News. Her poetry and essays have been published in Hanging Loose Press, Actually People, FLAT Journal, and Malibu Magazine.

Faith Hanna is an English professor, writer, and budding herbalist. After working as a story producer for a large company, she earned her MFA in creative writing from St. Mary's College of California and completed a year of herbal studies at The Berkeley Herbal Center. She now works as a professor at Los Medanos College, apprentices with East Bay Herbals, and wherever time and space allow.

Tam Putnam, a former editor at Gourmet, Elle, and European Travel & Life magazines, is the assistant program director for Litquake’s Elder Project. Tam has edited guides to Oakland for Diablo Publications and guides to San Francisco for 7x7 magazine. 

Photographers

Sharon Beals is an editorial and fine art photographer who works in the environmental field, illustrating issues of climate change and air quality. Her science-based photos have been published in magazines worldwide and exhibited at the National Academy of Sciences and many galleries and museums. Her book Nests: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them (Chronicle Books) came out in 2011.

Joshua Carter is a documentarian and a current photojournalism student at San Francisco State University. His globe-spanning work often depicts scenes of conflict or social activism.

Jeremie Fremaux uses his camera as a form of connection with the hopes of bettering himself and the world around him. He currently runs an extraordinary photo booth company called Snap Yourself! and takes on event and portrait projects in the community.

Chiara Headrick specializes in portraiture and fashion photography—on location and in the studio—as well as architectural photos. 

Nancy Warner is a portrait and fine art photographer with 38 years’ experience in film and digital photography. Her book This Place, These People (Columbia University Press) was published in 2014, and her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally.