Blog Contributor Bios

Sarah Adams
 

Jennifer Ferrero

Sarah Adams, owner and attorney at Adams Law Office, grew up around entrepreneurs and focuses on assisting business owners to succeed at their dreams.  She really enjoys the variety of each business' unique needs, recognizes the breadth of challenges facing each business owner, and prides herself on providing creative guidance.

Sarah is a native Oregonian and currently resides in southeast Portland with her husband and two daughters.  Before attending law school at Northwestern Law School of Lewis and Clark College, Sarah obtained her bachelor's degree from Portland State University after studying in Southern Oregon and the University of Guanajuato in Guanajuato, Mexico.  Outside of work Sarah enjoys gardening, commuting by bicycle, and cooking with friends and family.

Jennifer Ferrero is the co-owner of Purple Moon Child Development, Inc., an eco-healthy community based Preschool in NE Portland and owner of Sitter Soiree LLC. She is very active in the community and has volunteered for many projects including CASA, LAWalk, Big Sisters, Mamapreneurs, Inc. and Café au Play.

Jennifer enjoys photography, painting, wood burning and creating beautiful pieces of art from discarded furniture. She brings out her “inner-Martha” in her spare time and always has an art project on the back burner to relieve stress and decompress. She has been happily married to her hunky husband Steve for over 11 years and currently resides in NE Portland with her hubby and two children Max (10) and Ella (4)

Erin Kirkland
 

Michelle Ghilotti
Mandel
                          

Savannah
Mayfield,
LMT, CEC
 

Marne Maykowskyj Nordean

Marne Maykowskyj’s life started out in the small port town of Valdez in our 49^th state. Her studies took her to Washington, where architecture took over her life and she plunged headfirst into the design discipline.  Marne graduated with her future husband, Marc Nordean, a fellow architect who shared her love of design and architecture. Once her first child Henry came along in 2002, Marne’s life took a different direction. She quit her job and with money scarce, she began to sew her own baby blankets, clothes and other baby sundries. She sold them to friends and friends of friends as O’Henry.  A few years later, Maggie Mae was born and Marne knew the time was right to get serious and put her energy into a home-based business that served her new passion: kids clothing and accessories. Together with two Portland moms, she founded Cat in an Apron, a kids apparel and accessories site named after a poetic line lifted from her favorite childhood production Free to Be You and Me. Today, Marne operates the business as a sole proprietor and showcases the apparel and accessories made by designers in the Pacific NW, many of them moms like herself. Marne had her third child, baby Oliver in September of this 2008 and is trying to figure out how to manage THREE children and a business!  Coffee anyone??