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 the 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 Rafu Shimpo and Pasadena Star-News. Her poetry and essays have been published in Alocasia, Hanging Loose Press, Actually People, FLAT Journal and Malibu Magazine.

Matthew Félix is the author of four books, including a novel Publishers Weekly called “(a) highly crafted gem.” A frequent interviewer at San Francisco Bay Area bookstores and cultural institutions, Matthew also ghost-writes, edits, designs, publishes, and markets books for other authors.

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, is co-director of Litquake’s Elder Project and director of Kidquake. A former editor at Gourmet, Elle, and European Travel & Life magazines, Tam has also edited guides to Oakland for Diablo Publications and guides to San Francisco 7 x 7 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 San Francisco-based photographer. She has produced a wide range of analog and digital photo-series: pinhole, portraits, still life, and architecture. Working from her studio in San Francisco Chinatown, she created several series focused on that neighborhood. She spent a decade photographing abandoned farmhouses in the midwest, culminating in regional exhibitions and features in Black & White and Slate magazines. Those photos were published as This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains (Columbia University Press 2014). 

Join the Team

Join in our efforts to showcase the people who repair our belongs. We are looking for eager volunteers with a strong connection to the Bay Area interested in spreading the word on social media or in their neighborhoods. If you are interested in helping us, please use the contact page and tell us about yourself.