Cheyenne is inspired by the impact of personal responsibility and empowerment through community building, and that is one of many reasons why she came to Association Building Community. Her ongoing support of the work by Get That You Matter reflects these values.
She is particularly interested in raising awareness and motivating inward looking through events and workshops to help people confront where lack of responsibility is causing injustice and planet-wide degradation of both human life, and environmental health. She has run hundreds of events since 2003, most of which related to her particular interst in social justice and feminism.

She loves creating things with her hands, and learning and sharing how to create things from scratch or by upcycling to limit dependencies on corporations and build interdependencies through local communities. This is what started her business, Deconstruction Crafts and supports the world's largest clothing swap and DIY workshop event, Swap-o-Rama-Rama.

Working five years the Office Manager for Cafe Gratitude with over 200 employees and nine locations, and successfully closing the larger organization to open three independent companies through the mucky waters of lawsuits and financial crash, she grew to fully understand the potential of a strong and resilient community even (and especially) through extreme hardship, and the core need of strong leadership throughout. Through this, she believes in community building through authentic and transparent communication styles where acknowledgements, requests, and apologies are everyday activities. 

Skills include: event coordination/programming, office management, social media and marketing management, project management, team building, sacred commerce, hand thrown pottery, website management (joomla, wordpress...) and more