Our Team

We do things a bit differently, and that’s the way we like it!

 

Carrie Bachelder
Director and Founder

As an environmental entrepreneur and businesswoman in Marin County, Carrie has witnessed firsthand the lack of recycling and reuse infrastructure, at both the household and construction levels. Through her moving company, Great Moves, she was often confronted with the problem of discarding goods and materials in a responsible way. She began to envision a “one-stop shop” that would handle such goods, many of which were high-value. It was through this vision and her determination that The Away Station came into existence. Carrie has created and developed several businesses including catering and event production (Events Funtastique), and was the volunteer program manager for the national Youth at Risk Program, for which she worked for six years in a dozen major cities. Her jewelry studio resided in Sausalito’s Industrial Centers Building, and for 10 years she designed and created one-of-a-kind wearable art from found materials and polymer clays. Her current favorite artistic expression is furniture refurbishing and faux finishes. She is now focused on the environment and is passionately committed to recycling and reuse in all its forms. Carrie’s family has lived in Marin County for 46 years. Her father Bob was a math teacher at Redwood High School for 25 years, and brother Mark is a successful contractor and green builder.

 

Marketing and Publicity

 

LynAnn King
VP Marketing & Publicist

KingSings PR

LynAnn King partners with successful small businesses and empowers entrepreneurs to deliver compelling marketing communications, special events promotions and media campaigns. She brings her visionary leadership in rolling out creative marketing campaigns that create visibility and media coverage.

Video Producer

 

Torie White
Video Marketing & Fundraising

LTorie is a graduate of Wesleyan University’s College of Film and the Moving Image. Outside of school, she is engaged as a student of Somatics at Strozzi Institute, and she works with the Soul of Money Institute, a center for exploring and sharing the best practices and theories that enable people to relate to money and the money culture with greater freedom and effectiveness. While her roots remain in the San Francisco Bay Area, Torie has embarked on an adventure to Philadelphia, PA for the next chapter of her life and learning.

The Support Team

 

Simone Kopitzki
Busi Bee Bookkeeping
Mill Valley, CA

Simone began her career as an accountant with the Schatz College of Economics in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1996. Simone earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with honors. She sharpened her skills as an accounting specialist over many years working in the automotive industry.

In 2003 Simone moved from Germany to the beautiful San Francisco Bay area where she continued working in the accounting fields in small CPA offices, specializing in handling the needs of individuals with high incomes and small businesses in the dental industry. The experience from working with a CPA makes her capable of converting messy financial records into accurate, usable financial statements.

In her spare time Simone enjoys alpine skiing at Lake Tahoe. She is also a member of the NRDC, the National Resources Defense Counsil, the nation’s most effective environmental action group to protect Mother Nature.

Simone believes that her knowledge and experience will achieve remarkable results for all of her clients.

Partners

 

Mark Bachelder
Green Building Contractor – Marin
Bachelder and Associates

Mark Bachelder is a licensed general contractor, owner of Bachelder and Associates. He specializes in residential remodeling, and has done this for over 40 years. He is passionate about green building,
reUse of materials, and bringing homeowners’ visions to reality in a way that transforms their experience of their home.

Artist & ReUse Artists

 

Lora Amara
Artist & ReUse Artist

Lora Amara is a renaissance woman. She is an assemblage artist, interior designer, organic garden designer, student of Permaculture, environmentalist, Buddhist, writer and lover of all things beautiful brought to us by nature. Her art is titled “Lost & Found Art,” her garden designs are under the heading of “Your Soulful Garden,” and her interior design is simply Lora Amara Designs. She tries to not take herself too seriously, considers herself primarily a student in any of her endeavors, and believes a smile is a gift we can always give. To see her gardens and art, go to www.yoursoulfulgarden.com. She is proud to be associated with The Away Station and the other fine people involved and believes it is the way of the future if we are to live responsibly on this beautiful and finite planet in such a way that we would be proud to it turn over to our children. Lora is also delighted to be a member of the docent program at Green Gulch Farm in Marin County. The program welcomes elementary school classrooms into the extensive and thriving organic gardens to teach children where our food comes from, the critical importance of living soil, the essential role bees and other pollinators play, and the fun of just hanging out in a beautiful natural setting. It is her belief that educating our children to be responsible stewards of the Earth means we provide them ever greater access to the perfect and profound ways of nature.