NATALIE POST -
Post productions
Natalie is a dating and lifestyle coach, a personal and professional branding photographer, and the back-pocket hype woman you never knew you needed. She lives in Lake Forest Park with her sons, Leon and Rowan, their dog, Carl, and the dog-and-toddler-wrangler of her dreams, Trevor. Dodge her in the office if you don't want to discuss your entire life and walk away with two new books or podcasts you are forced to read / listen to.
MIKE QUINLAN - FULL STACK CONTENT DESIGN
Mike is a photographer and content strategist based in Ballard. He helps businesses create content that serves a purpose. When he's not working, you can find him on his mountain bike or hanging out with his toddler, Esther.
HERMANN Calabria - JOVIAL.ORG
Hermann runs Jovial.org, a social-purpose with a mission to help lift early childhood education across the US and Canada, by offering high-quality, full-featured preschool management software -- at no charge. He's happy to join Collective Chemistry and looking forward to meeting the community!
ALEXANDRA EPPERSON
Alex is a Seattle-based creative director with a deep love for storytelling and design. Throughout her career, she’s dreamt up product shoots for Timberland, helped to redefine what it means to be a Disney Princess, and brought more than fifteen TV and theatrical marketing campaigns to life. She recently launched her own creative studio, offering full-service content production to help brands tell their stories. Alex is endlessly inspired by the beauty of the pacific northwest. She’s fallen in love with Ballard after a recent move from California, and she’s looking forward to getting involved in the community!
shane griffiths - clarity online
Shane is an SEO and WordPress expert based in Seattle, WA. He helps clients, big and small, understand how search engines work, analyze their industry and competition, and implement SEO-first marketing strategies that transform their organizations. Outside of work you’ll find him playing games, at happy hour with friends, or nerding out on personal finance subreddits.
catie bergman
Catie is a newborn, family, and elopement photographer based in Ravenna. She's very open to travel and is most inspired by candid moments, mountains, and magic hour.
Talisien black-brown
Taliesin was born underwater in a barn in Vermont to a performance artist and a compost engineer. As a child he went to church alone every morning in the frog pond, where his curiosity for life and his rebellion to books began. Teenage years were marked by a long slow dance with bone cancer. During chapters of recovery and immobility Taliesin took to flying drones, which offered a way to re-experience the world in motion. Drones became films became stories, and healing took flight. Taliesin is an artist exploring listening, feeling, healing, and nonsense. His film work has been shown on BBC's Planet Earth, PBS, Nowness and in top film festivals like Doc NYC. He also loves to sing for fun.
RACHEL SIMPSON
Rachel is a Fremont based documentary style wedding and family photographer. A transplant from the SF Bay Area, and Philadelphia before that, she is rebuilding her business in Seattle while working remotely for a Naturopathic clinic in California. Any free time outside of this work is spent primarily on trails or at concerts around Seattle.
brady lawrence
Brady is a Seattle-based cinematographer and award-winning documentary filmmaker specializing in videos about outdoor adventure, music, technology and the environment. His films have been featured in outlets like Outside, TIME Magazine and The Bikepacking Journal. Projects for clients such as the Schmidt Ocean Institute, Zillow and Canyon Bicycles have taken him from the northernmost road in Alaska to the high plateaus of Kyrgyzstan and many places in between.
ALEX HAMLIN
Alex is a video producer and editor who is passionate about using video to disperse education, awareness, and creativity into the world. Since 2010, he has traveled extensively throughout the world and gained credits in projects from Chile to the UK to Indonesia. Alex runs our highly attended Movie Club every Wednesday!
kendall rock
Kendall runs Collective Chemistry! She is also a wedding and music tour photographer, which has been taking her all over the globe lately, primarily with Gregory Alan Isakov. Kendall got on her freelancer feet in her hometown of Seattle thanks to Collective Chemistry (way back in 2016), and is all around stoked to give back to this community. She is passionate about working for herself and supporting those who made the same brave choice!
WUDAN YAN
Wudan is a narrative writer, podcaster, and entrepreneur based in Seattle, WA. She is the host and executive producer of The Writers' Co-op, a business podcast and learning academy for freelance creatives. When Wudan is not working, she's out exploring the wilderness in the Pacific Northwest using ropes, skis, or her own two feet.
james andrews
James is a video producer/director and recent transplant to Ballard from the University District. With a background as a journalist before getting into video, his favorite projects are documentaries. His latest project was just selected as a finalist for NASA's annual short film contest.
KATe GRIFFITH
Kate is a collaborative energy policy strategist and communicator. She has spent more than a decade working at the intersections of sustainable community and policy development. Her policy focus includes climate and wildfire resiliency, utility resource planning, regional collaboration on infrastructure investment and planning, and the implementation of Western state clean energy laws that center equity in the clean energy transition. Kate previously worked as a journalist and editor in Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
Nick Gardner
Nick is building a collective action movement that unites climate and socially-conscious brands to drive systemic change within the insurance industry. Beyond his day job, Nick is engaged in various projects that blend outdoor experiences with environmental and social impact. His passion lies in fostering a deeper connection between people and nature, with the hope that this bond will inspire a commitment to protecting the places we love. As soon as the laptop closes, Nick is either climbing up or skiing down a mountain, attending live music events, hunting for the best local cappuccino or craft beer, or enjoying the company of friends and family.