Suzanne Akin

Suzanne Akin is a graphic designer and fashion designer, who runs her own clothing line, Akinz, and is the co-curator of Morningbird Collective. She gets excited about her work when she sees someone walking down the street wearing something she designed or a poster in a coffee shop that she created for a local event, basically whenever she sees her vision come to life.  Coworking is the daily social boost that keeps her smiling and the intangible ‘boss’ that forces her to hunker down and meet a deadline.  You can see some of her design work hereand contact her at SuzanneEAkin@gmail.com.

Beth Buczynski

Beth is a freelance copywriter and environmental journalist passionate about leaving the planet in better shape than she found it. Founder of her own one-woman-wordsmithing company, See Beth Write LLC, Beth specializes in creating optimized content for both print and web. A proud CSU grad school survivor, Beth holds an M.S. in public communication and technology with a concentration in environmental communication. In addition to writing for some of the best known green living and environmental activism web sites in the business, Beth regularly posts her sustainable scribblings at The EcoSpheric Blog and on Twitter as @ecosphericblog. When not glued to her laptop, Beth enjoys skiing, drinking tea, and watching zombie movies.

Mindy Chase

Mindy is the devil’s advocate.  Part rebel, part barbie doll she puts the fun in dysfunctional.  In addition to  mowing her lawn semi-infrequently, she enjoys line dancing, beer bongs, rodeo clowning and giving pedicures.  Favorite drink: ones that end in “on the beach.”  Favorite date: guys who are extra clingy and call her 4 times a day.  Favorite job: any that require her to work hard for her money.  When she’s not doing a full body press near store fronts, she’s promoting contraceptives online.

Alex Chiang

Alex Chiang loves free beer, free speech, and apt analogies. He’s lucky enough to get paid to work on his hobby, namely hacking on the grotty plumbing bits of the Linux software stack. When he explains his work to normal people, he drops multiple references to platypus eggs, lasers, unicorns, and gnome mating dances. It works, somehow. In his copious spare time, Alex likes to climb some things, lift heavy other things, point expensive glass at even more things, ride two-wheeled things, and put any remaining things in his mouth. He thinks Fort Collins is pretty swell but wishes it was an actual fort made of marshmallows and Nutella. Alex holds numerous opinions, none accredited. His favorite Cohere perq is the Twitter follower increase and he used “wc(1)” to conform to the 140-word limit on this bio. [twitter | blog]

Michael Clingan

Michael Clingan is a professional organizational catalyst. He helps groups think about their purpose, goals, and constraints in ways both creative and logical. Michael’s clients are often marketing, sales or leadership teams that need to create a new level of dialog, either internally or with their customers. Sometimes these sessions are strategic marketing interventions designed to quickly increase a companies sales without new products or discounting. He’s got the chops for this very cool job – before answering consulting’s Siren call, Michael was sales and marketing VP for three companies and Chancellor (not the evil kind) for another. And he has the left and right brain thing going with a master’s in physics and a degree in English. Email him at michael@theclaymoregroup.com.

Daryle Dickens

Daryle Dickens hates writing in the 3rd person so I don’t do it…

I am an artist and a writer that lives to see others embrace their own creativity either in the arts or in business.ArtPalaver.com is an online resource I created to help artist better promote and market themselves and their art. Because of that site I have been able to make a living doing marketing consulting not just for artists but medium and small businesses as well. Live to create!

Sean Gillies

Sean is a programmer employed by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. His primary project is a gazetteer of the Greek and Roman world and the design of related ontologies and services. He’s also involved in several open source software projects concerned with spatial databases and spatial analysis, and with explaining HTTP and the Web to GIS programmers and architects. Outside of Cohere, you’re most likely to encounter him at the Food Co-op, Farmers’ Market, or Lee Martinez Park.

Sarah Jane Griesemer

Sarah Jane is 1 part Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1 part Geek and all Tina Fey wannabe. She came to Cohere on a whim and a prayer, primarily to be one of the cool kids at recess. After about 10 minutes, she knew she was home, and felt inspired, energized, and empowered to finally pursue her dreams of world domination. Or at least inspiring others to eat more kale.  When Sarah Jane isn’t at Cohere, she is probably riding her bike, talking about CSAs and local food in the Cupboard or on their blog, making tasty treats to share or doing her laundry whilst wearing her bathing suit. Follow what she’s cooking up on Twitter.

Cali Harris

Cali Harris is a grad student at the University of Colorado Denver, salsa & cha-cha dancer and lover of Colorado. She’s a marketer and copywriter by trade. When she’s not working on her thesis, she’s usually meeting new people, playing with her nephews, brainstorming business ideas or sharing 140 characters at a time on Twitter.

When she’s not at Cohere, she wishes she was. You can find her antics at http://caligater.com.

Paul Hummer

Paul Hummer is a level 27 Human with +59 hacking and +67 musician. He’s currently pursuing the advanced grind of his Hacker specialty working on Launchpad.net and contributing to Free Software.

Paul also levels up in his home studio writing and recording music with his band ”The Knoxville Recital”.  He’s also possesses a number of 2-wheeled mounts, which he can be seen riding even in blizzard conditions.

Kristin Mastre

Kristin Mastre is a wife, a mother to two boys, a Personal Trainer and a Professional blogger. She has been blogging for five years on three different blogs; a parenting blog, a fitness blog and a restaurant review blog, all of them receiving world-wide recognition.  After noticing a lack of food bloggers in Fort Collins, she decided to throw her hat into the ring and is now the #1 food blogger writing restaurant reviews onFeastingFortCollins.com, specializing in craft beer and pairing dinners.  Being an honest writer, she’ll tell it like she tastes it.  With a keen ability to build successful blogs and market them, Kristin consults other writers wishing to reach new heights in blogging.  She also provides restaurant consulting for those who wish to improve their customer experience and refine their menu. Find her on Email, Twitter,Facebook.

Lindsay Ogden

Lindsay Ogden left a successful career in botany and vegetation mapping to have more control over her life. She turned her talents to web development, graphic design, and business processes consulting. She is passionate about the Cloud and teaching businesses how to leverage it to increase productivity, decrease costs, and make workforces more flexible. She builds websites in Drupal, Google, and WordPress and loves creating custom themes for her interesting clients. Lindsay finds coworking to be an excellent resource for access to new ideas and talent as well as a refreshing break from the usual living-room environment.

Katrina Pfannkuch

Katrina Pfannkuch is a writer, entrepreneur and Reiki Master who lives to write and create. She started Buzzword Communications, LLC to pursue her passion for excellence in communication and satisfy her entrepreneurial spirit. She has over 12 years of experience with writing, editing and creating marketing materials for a variety of companies and industries, and specializes in technology, green business and health and wellness topics. She is most passionate about helping people discover the true, authentic voice for their business, transforming their creative vision into words. Katrina blogs regularly for Psychotic Resumes and GenGreen, is a regular contributor to BellaSpark Magazine and also teaches and works with clients to help them break through creative blocks.

Matt Rose

Matt Rose is a Fort Collins-based Ruby on Rails developer for Composition9.  Born and raised in Chicago, IL, he worked and schooled his way through a master’s degree in Management Information Systems.  In 2005, he moved to Fort Collins, CO where he has been doing freelance web development and writing pretty good code ever since.  He is undecided about favorite colors, but his favorite flavor is savory.  He thinks it is an amazing time to be working with information technology.  Email him at matt@composition9.com, please.

Darrin Sharp

Darrin telecommutes to his day job as a climate researcher at the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. In addition to his research, Darrin is also OCCRIʼs de facto IT department, where he draws from his experience in the high-tech industry. He has degrees in Computer Science, and also earned an MS in Ecology a few years ago. This explains how he made the jump from high-tech to climate research. Darrin likes Cohere because it provides opportunities for interaction with a new group of bright, interesting people. And, when the walls start closing in at home, it gives him access to a space where he can be productive. When heʼs not in cyberspace, Darrin can often be found piloting his mountain bike along one of the many delicious trails in the area.

Reu Smith

<lamebio><affliction>A severe hand injury in the 1989 regional thumb wrestling quarterfinals helped Reu realize his dreams of becoming something more than just an athlete in a great looking body. </affliction> <triumphreturn>Schooled in real world business, he would rise above the injury and realize his dream of marketing for businesses, no matter the size.</triumphreturn> <bestpart>Reu has grown rfi|Marketing to over 150 clients in 5 years. He works with national retailers, small-niche products and weird businesses models.</bestpart> <otheractivites>Reu loves teaching others. He is the head FAST Masters Swim Team coach.</otheractivites></lamebio>  Blog | Twitter | LinkedIn

Skippy

Skippy can’t focus on one thing. He is a photographer who does portraiture as Time/Place Photography and fashion & fine art images as On The Fly Photography (http://timeplacephoto.com/ideas). He also provides caging and glassware washing equipment, autoclaves and chlorine dioxide gas decontamination with Braxtan Scientific for the medical and scientific professions (http://www.braxtanscientific.com/). Skippy enjoys creating art and solving problems. Coworking is fun because he gets to meet lots of interesting folks doing many fascinating things. Plus they can all go to lunch together. Skippy is serious about what he does. He is not serious about how he does it.

Julie Sutter

A former print journalism major, Julie Sutter still loves words and stories. She currently divides her time between cheerfully accepting freelance copywriting assignments and putting the art in party as the co-founder ofArticulate City, an arts-and-culture social club with an ever-expanding membership base and a reputation for hosting memorable monthly parties.  She’s passionate about her work because she gets to find creative ways to shine a spotlight on other people’s passions. She loves coworking because executive office suites can give you some perks, but coworking gives you some peeps. And that’s how she works best – as an independent spirit in an interdependent world. Email her at julie@articulatecity.com

Kevin Udy

Long-time web development hobbyist, Kevin pursued his passion for computers and software at CSU, graduating with a BS in Computer Science. He has since continued to build his knowledge of web development, SEO, and web marketing as Web Developer for CCSEO in Fort Collins. Building awesome search friendly websites is one of Kevin’s passions. Kevin is also passionate about supporting and cultivating local community, especially local tech related groups and events. When he isn’t working for CCSEO, Kevin is a computer geek, utilizing his attention to detail to complete side projects, helping friends with their computer woes, and experimenting in “social media.”  When he finds the time to get off the computer, he appreciates the value of a nap, gardening, painting, writing, karaoke, home improvement, and whiskey.