Meet Our Team
Staff
Kate Cloran
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY & OPERATIONS
Kate brings a wide-ranging background in nonprofit leadership, grant writing, marketing, and community engagement to her role at Heart of Cartm. Her career has taken unexpected but interconnected turns—from collaborative leadership in the nonprofit sector, to data-driven strategy and user experience design, to life on the road as a park ranger coordinating volunteers. Across each chapter, the throughline has been systems and storytelling: building structures that work, while keeping people at the center.
At Heart of Cartm, Kate oversees operations, fundraising, and program development, helping neighbors & visitors see waste in a new light. She believes reuse and repair are more than practical solutions—they are creative, community-building acts that invite us to imagine new possibilities for how we live together.
Board of Directors
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Teri Fladstol
BOARD CHAIR
Jigsaw Consulting Services, founded in 2018, works with start-up, established and non-profit businesses in setting up and maintaining accounting systems, financial reporting, processes and procedures in daily operations, and payroll processing. Teri Fladstol, owner, also works as an Independent Business Adviser with the Tillamook Bay Small Business Development Center.
Teri has an affinity for business and especially enjoys the process of breaking down tasks involved in each facet of the daily activities and helping each business navigate doing ‘everything’ - often, without a handbook on how-to. When not working, Teri enjoys spending time with her husband, 2 married children and relaxing with a good book, knitting or by doing a jigsaw puzzle.
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Kim Koch
BOARD CO-CHAIR
Kim has lived in the tri-village area for 20 years where she runs a successful remodel and vacation rental management company with her husband Brien.
Over the years, Kim has always known CARTM to be an important touchstone. From working at the facility, hanging trash art shows and helping to remodel the main building, Kim always felt that CARTM was much more than a recycling facility. She understood that is was a place for our diverse community to meet and create, exchange news and ideas and of course exchange stuff!! CARTM brought everyone together for the good of the community and when CARTM closed she knew we lost something vital.
Kim is proud to be a part of the new Heart of Cartm board and is committed to the re- imagination and resurrection of this most important community institution.
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Justin Weiss
BOARD TREASURER
Justin Weiss is a human, who above all else, loves to play in the dirt. He spent his formative and academic years interested in learning anything and everything about the natural sciences; diving in both inside, and outside, the classroom. He possesses a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona in Environmental Studies, and completed his Master’s Thesis at San Jose State University, focused on sustainable waste management and extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies.
Justin relocated to the Oregon coast in January, 2021, to start a career with the Tillamook County Solid Waste Department; he is currently a Supervisor at the Manzanita transfer station. Being a long time advocate for initiatives which strive to promote sustainability and the arts, he was more than excited to join the new CARTM Board. Justin looks forward to continuing to work/live in the TIllamook County coastal community, striving to support the mission and energy that CARTM possesses.
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Halle Myers
BOARD SECRETARY
Bio Coming Soon!
Volunteers
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