Our Core Team
Our Core Team
Clare Attwell
CO-ADMINISTRATOR, Victoria BC
Clare is a textile and multi-media artist living in Victoria, British Columbia in the Salish Sea and is a co-founder and administrator of Regenerate Cascadia. When she is not working on her own art, she works as a community artist, using the arts in imaginative ways to help community groups explore complex issues such as cultural and spiritual identity, including community visioning. Clare Grew up in South Africa and moved to Canada as a young adult. She is deeply influenced by her early years in Africa under Apartheid. She creates predominantly large-scale wall hangings that evolve from her work with the community. She is especially interested in exploring what makes complex systems functional, particularly how they relate to organizations and social systems.
Brandon Letsinger
CO-ADMINISTRATOR, Seattle WA
Brandon Letsinger is the co-founder and administrator of Regenerate Cascadia. He is also the executive director of the Department of Bioregion, co-producer of the Cascadia Northwest Arts and Music Festival and President of the Cascadia Association Football Federation. In the past, he also launched CascadiaNow! in 2005, which he stepped back from in 2017, as well as helping organize the Cascadia Poetry Festival, Cascadians Against White Supremacy, Yes Cascadia, Vote Cascadia, and the Cascadia Underground, an independent media center on Capitol Hill. He also runs a 6400′ square foot art space in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. His work has been featured in Time Magazine, Vice, USA Today, the Atlantic Monthly, NPR, the BBC, National Journal, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Canadian Broadcasting, as well as a host of local newspapers and radio segments.
Tanja Woitasczyk
PROGRAM OFFICER, Eugene OR
Tanja has been helping as a core team member since the Cascadia Activation Tour and helped make sure that the Regenerate Cascadia website was updated and running correctly for the Cascadia Bioregional Summit in November 2023. Since then, she has stepped on as both a project manager, and as the program officer for our fiscal sponsorship program. Tanja has previous experience as an event director, and personal climate coach, helping women create sustainability in health, environment and relationships.
Cory Sevin
COMMUNICATION & NEWSLETTER, Mt. Vernon WA
Cory Sevin has stepped on to help us develop basic onboarding materials, as well as basic communications sharing updates and helping make sure a monthly newsletter gets sent.
Lisa Bade
EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, La Connor WA
Lisa Bade was born in Seattle and grew up in a family of educators who prioritized social justice. She earned an MA in Education and taught Studio Art and Art History at Highline High School for 10 years. During that time, she worked with other artists to create parade scale art, posters, and street art for demonstrations and rallies. She eventually worked collaboratively to organize the Art of Resistance Political Artists’ Conference series. Seeking to expand her knowledge and experience as a socially engaged artist and educator, she took a position researching education interventions in Cambodia, living for four years in a small provincial town. During that time and since, she has been involved as a resource person to the Asia based Schools of Peace network of activists, facilitating and advising on socially engaged art practices.
Christian Michelle
WORDPRESS DEVELOPER, Federal Way WA
With my degrees in Web Design and Development, I have made a remarkable career out of something I have loved since I was a kid. I have been working professionally in the world of Web Development for the last twelve years, doing both backend and frontend development for companies large and small. I have managed both onshore and offshore teams, ensuring their work passes through the correct reviews before deploying to our clients and customers. My skills lie in content management systems, ecommerce platforms and wide scale database creation and maintenance. I have over fifteen years of experience with such coding languages as PHP, JavaScript, Ruby, HTML, SASS/LESS/CSS and many more.
