Beth has nearly twenty years of executive level experience with non-profits, public interest groups, governmental agencies, and broadcast media. She is a visionary thinker and a talented communicator with a proven track record of success. She created messaging for victorious political candidates and issues, inspired citizen participation that actually passed new laws, and managed public planning efforts that engaged hundreds of citizens. Beth has also raised millions of dollars for organizations and causes she believes in. In 2002, Beth left her position as Project Director for Downtown Development at the St. Louis Development Corporation, the economic development arm of the City of the St. Louis, and moved to Fort Collins, Colorado to write a novel. In 2004, Beth was lured back to non-profit management and was hired as the Station Manager for KRFC, the Fort Collins non-profit community radio station. Beth was hired by Beet Street as a consultant in 2009 to redesign their strategic plan. She was hired permanently in February 2010 as Project and Development Director and now leads the organization as Executive Director.

Kari was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. Arts and culture has always been an important part of her life, as a performer and the daughter of a music teacher.

Kari earned her Bachelor of Arts in Musical Theatre from the University of Northern Colorado. After graduation she started her arts career as a freelance director and choreographer for several schools in the Minneapolis area, discovering a passion for arts education. Kari served as the Administrative Director of Bel Canto Voices, a Minneapolis based girls' choir, and led the choir on tours nationally and also through Spain and Gibraltar. Within her freelance and educational career, Kari wrote study guides for a public access music program, Music de Camera. The study guides were distributed regionally and used in several school districts as part of the music curriculum.

Kari returned to Colorado in 2006, settling in Fort Collins and eventually discovering an opportunity to work with Beet Street. She is excited to continue her work with the arts and culture community in Fort Collins developing partnerships and civic pride with each new program. Kari is privileged to work at Beet Street while fulfilling the core passions of her career and life; arts, culture, and education.

For the past twenty years, Kerry has worked for small non-profit and entrepreneurial businesses. She recently relocated to Fort Collins from Missoula, Montana, where she was employed by the University of Montana Foundation. She also worked as the Outreach, Education, and Volunteer Coordinator for the International Wildlife Film Festival and Media Center.

Kerry is a volunteer Master Naturalist for the City of Fort Collins and sits on the Executive Committee for the Colorado Sierra Club. She has served on the Board of Footloose Montana and the Sterling Forest Partnership. As the Conservation Chair for the Northern New Jersey Chapter of the Sierra Club, Kerry lead a campaign with a small group of volunteers to protect watershed land that provides drinking water to 2,000,000 people. This grassroots campaign raised $8,000,000 through contributions from the federal government, the states of New York and New Jersey, and a private foundation to help create this environmental legacy, one of Sierra Club’s most successful grassroots campaigns.

Kerry is a writer and recently completed her first book, “All Things Natural: A Collection of Poems from the Mountains to the Plains.” She is in the process of completing two childrens' books.