Theme: Empowering Central Oregon

Our first Salon we want to focus on community empowerment and key issues facing our community in central Oregon and how folks are solving these. We hope to activate the attendees to come up with more ideas and continue to work on these throughout the year that will become topics of future salons.

Central Oregon Community College
Willie Hall, 2600 NW College Way
Bend, Oregon, 97701
United States

Amanda Stuermer

Amanda has been working with non-profits that serve women and youth for nearly 20 years. She is the founder and executive director of World Muse, a social change organization that provides year-round programs and events to cultivate and activate the potential of women as catalysts for change.

Jenny Marks

Jenny Marks is a United States Marine Corps Veteran who graduated from Oregon State University with Honors after completing 3 tours of duty. She is one of the co-founders for a 501(c)(3) non-profit, Full Life Engagement, that provides reintegration coaching for veterans across the country and is the owner of Virtual Transformation, LLC, an online personal training program.

Jamie Danek

Jamie, Co-Founder of Kombucha Mama, is a veteran in delivering amazing results from starting new businesses, growing client satisfaction to building daring business plans and strategies. She has started a multi-million dollar consulting firm, been the Founder of EON Organics and its subsidiaries.