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Meet
the founders of Cascadia Times
 Paul
Koberstein - Editor and Co-Publisher
Paul began his journalism career as a reporter,
and then news editor, for a daily newspaper in Wisconsin.
Later he was sports writer for the Oregon Journal
and then a news reporter for The Oregonian where
he worked until 1992. He won numerous state, regional
and national journalism awards, including the top
prize for investigative reporting from the Oregon
Newspaper Publishers Association in 1986, 1988 and
1991. He was author, along with co-author Kathie
Durbin, of a series documenting the devastating
impact of logging on Northwest forests. Paul has
covered numerous major Northwest environmental stories
for 15 years, including Exxon oil spill, and is
credited with breaking the news that nuclear waste
tanks could explode at Hanford - a story that eerily
prompted government contractors to hire surveillance
specialists to follow him for months. In 1993-94,
Paul was a staff writer for Willamette Week. He
has written for such national publications as Time
and Outside, and in 1995 contributed to a series
of articles that won the National Magazine Award
for Outside. He has also scripted several documentary
films. In 1994 he founded Cascadia Times to produce
in-depth coverage of environmental issues in the
Northwest. In 1996, Utne Reader named Cascadia Times
one of the best new pubilcations in America.
 Robin
Klein - Co-Publisher
Robin helped found Cascadia Times and has been the
newspaper's publisher and interim operations manager.
She also regularly writes, conducts research, and
provides editorial assistance for the paper. Robin
is the author of the latest edition of Portland
City Smart Guide, published by Avalon Publishing
Co, a reader-friendly guidebook on what to do in
Portland. An optics/laser engineer by discipline,
who formerly worked on Star Wars and NASA projects,
Robin conducted both her undergraduate studies in
physics and graduate work in optical sciences at
the University of Arizona. She turned to activism
in 1992 after moving to Oregon and discovering safety
threats posed by the Hanford Nuclear site in Washington.
In 1993 she formed the non-profit group Hanford
Action of Oregon and continues to lead that group.
She also is a director on the board of the Seattle-based
Heart of America Northwest and is a member of the
federal Hanford Advisory Board. She was on the Academic
Affairs Committee of Portland's French American
International School, and currently serves on a
design committee for Portland's first official skateboard
park. A former model, Robin is an advocate for wild
terrain and education, as well as an avid snowboarder
and ballet student. She believes the remarkable
doesn't happen along paths well traveled, that it's
worth striving against mediocrity, and that real
perfection is in the imperfection.
Kathie
Durbin - Senior Associate Editor (former) and co-founder
Kathie, formerly a longtime staff writer for The
Oregonian, has covered major environmental issues
in the Northwest for more than a decade. During
her tenure at The Oregonian, she and Paul Koberstein
were the lead reporters on environment when the
paper received national distinction in 1991 for
leading best environmental coverage in the country.
Kathie's wide popularity as a writer on Northwest
issues followed her to Cascadia Times, which she
helped launch with Paul in 1994. Her desire to conduct
aggressive environmental coverage led to their teaming
up once again, but this time as editors for CT.
Kathie, a forest lover who has witnessed the history
of movements that both protect and decimate the
Northwest, is also the author of two books: Tree
Huggers and Tongass. She has written for High Country
News, Willamette Week, and Seattle Weekly. She now
reports for the Vancouver Columbian.
Bryan
Potter - Designer
Bryan produced the first graphic designs for Cascadia
Times in 1994, and has been CT's art director ever
since. He is recognized as one of the best and most
innovative graphics designers in the Northwest.
He formerly contributed to Willamette Week. Now,
besides Cascadia Times, his projects include the
design of Portland Art Museum's striking promotional
materials, and OPB's Focus magazine. He also designs
books and brochures for such organizations as Eco-Trust,
River Network, and the Columbia Basin Institute.
Bryan and his brother Eldon, a fellow CT designer,
are two cool guys, that really make us look good.
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