Meet The Green Team

Kerri Anne Ladish, Managing Editor

An avid t-shirt slogan aficionado and Pacific Northwest native, Kerri Anne is a former English Literature major turned web geek / writer / non-profit savant. By day she works for a green company wherein she is thrilled to be doing her part to save the planet daily. By night she spends copious amounts of time day dreaming about world travel and hiking with her fantastic web-designing husband and their one year old pug puppy named after Iggy Pop.

When she's not enjoying all that the good green earth has to offer, Kerri Anne is most likely writing at her personal site, KerriAnne.org, or at CinematicEcstatic.com, wherein she nurses her undying obsession with movies of all lengths and genres. She can also be found on Twitter daily, and recently started a project and a site devoted solely to her newfound love of felt mustaches, and yours, too, at Sisterhood of the Traveling 'Stache.

REGULAR CONTRIBUTORS

Jennifer never imagined life as a Christian, wife, and mother of three children, but here she is and loving every interesting minute of it. She holds a B.A. in English and has finally found her calling as a writer and stay-at-home, homeschooling mommy. “I never thought I would be a part of the blogging world, and now I can’t get enough of it. There is so much I want to share and I have learned so much from others.” Before marriage and family, she was a Web designer and taught the same. Her entrepreneurial spirit continued and lead her, along with her husband, in the creation of an online business, Life as Organic. They promote safe, non-toxic, and natural living through community events and as Shaklee independent distributors. In the free time she hopes to find, “if she can ever get it together,” Jennifer enjoys reading, writing, running, lots of time on the computer (her sewing machine misses her), and taking lots and lots of pictures (just ask her children). She also writes about and shares the adventures of her homeschool journey at Homeschool Roster as well as green, natural, and vegetarian “city girl,” now country living at Little Green Secrets.

After leaving the corporate world, Jen Khatchatrian started her own company, Function & Space to provide “closet therapy” for her clients and recycle those impulse purchases. Recently she founded Chicago Smart Green Families – a group designed to connect families in the city that are starting or maintaining a green lifestyle. She resides in Old Town, a historic neighborhood in Chicago, with her husband and 2 young sons. Jen contributes to the Chicago Moms Blog and as The EcoChic Organizer.

Jennifer Taggart runs The Smart Mama, offering advice and resources for going green and non toxic at home, with a focus on kids and babies. She is a mom of 2, former environmental engineer and currently a partner in a Los Angeles firm. She is an environmental attorney specializing in consumer product labeling law and Proposition 65. She is the author of the forthcoming The Smart Mama's Green Guide: Simple Steps for Non Toxic Babies from Hachette Book Group, USA, Center Street. She has an eco-consulting business to help individuals and business go green and non toxic, from greening the cleaning to testing toys using an XRF analyzer. She lectures throughout California on going green and non toxic. Jennifer served as a Commissioner with the Los Angeles City Environmental Affairs Commission for 9 years.

Tiffany is a freelance writer and newspaper journalist from Ohio and a “green” mom to three wonderful kids, eight and under. One of her foremost concerns is the state of the environment and making sure that her family lives with a light ecological footprint. They try to maintain a sustainable home with green products that have minimal impact on the Earth. Tiffany enjoys all things related to natural living…organic and raw foods, natural health, travel, yoga, water aerobics, hiking, and meeting like minded friends. In a previous life she was a marketing and advertising executive working in a major metropolitan city and the owner and president of a cloth diaper manufacturing and distribution company until her love all things green brought her to a small Midwestern city and a more natural family life. On a more personal note Tiffany was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer in 2006 at the age of 28. She is cancer free right now but the experience has taught her that there is nothing more important than living naturally and healthfully and it will always be her goal to help other moms and dads who are not aware of the toxins that can be found in the average home and diet and why we MUST change that…for ourselves and for our precious children. Tiffany writes for a variety of different web sites and companies, and has contributed to a few books as well. Her main blog for natural and green moms is at Nature Moms.

MONTHLY GUEST POSTERS

Deanna Duke is a mother of two and manager of an urban homestead in the heart of Seattle. In addition to working full-time as a software developer, Deanna is the Director of the program, Goods 4 Girls which provides reusable menstrual supplies for girls in Africa so that they can stay in school. On her blog, Crunchy Chicken, Deanna hosts an eco book club, interviews, giveaways, polls and lots of (sometimes crazy) environmental challenges. Her goal is to push people beyond their comfort level, forcing them to think about the choices they make that affect the environment. In other words, she puts the mental in environmental.

Jenn Savedge is a full-time mom, environmentalist, and author who researches and writes about the two topics that are closest to her heart: children and the environment. As a former park ranger for the National Park Service, Jenn traveled the U.S., learning about the environment in some this country's most breath-taking wild places. Her first book, The Green Parent: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Earth-Friendly Living (Kedzie Press, 2008) gives parents the info they need to go green while raising kids and the tools they need to pass this info on to the next generation. Find out more about Jenn at her green parenting website, The Green Parent.

Stefani Newman is a daughter, wife, mom, sister, freelance writer, art teacher, and green educator (for anyone who will listen!) A native New Yorker, Stefani started teensygreen in July of 2007 while living in the beautiful country of Panama, where she lived by the Pacific Ocean for the first time. She now resides in South Florida with her wonderful husband and two beautiful, talented, curious, life-loving daughters, who help her with obsessive shell collecting, messy cooking, and library adventures. With teensygreen, Stefani hopes to help like-minded parents make economical, educational, and safe eco-choices for their families!