Meet Our Team

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Jessi Just grew up helping to renovate the family farmhouse in the Missouri Ozarks and digging for old bottles in the backyard. As a graduate of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri - Columbia, she studied trash on the Missouri River and organized teams of volunteers to help clean it up. Jessi became the outreach specialist for Cartm Recycling in 2005, which ignited a passionate career in sustainable materials management.

Her desire to reimagine waste has led to exciting responsibilities, including: living and working on a Mississippi River trash barge, organizing trash fashion shows across the country, providing reuse and recycling consultation for the states of Iowa and New Mexico, implementing a state-wide hub and spoke recycling system in New Mexico, and now rebuilding the organization.

As Heart of Cartm Executive Director, Jessi Just will enthusiastically lead our community to zero waste.

BOARD CHAIR

Jigsaw Consulting Services, founded in 2018, works with start-up, established and non-profit businesses in setting up and maintaining accounting systems, financial reporting, processes and procedures in daily operations, and payroll processing.  Teri Fladstol, owner, also  works as an Independent Business Adviser with the Tillamook Bay Small Business Development Center.

Teri has an affinity for business  and especially enjoys the process of breaking down tasks involved in each facet of the daily activities and helping each business navigate doing ‘everything’ - often, without a handbook on how-to. When not working, Teri enjoys spending time with her husband, 2 married children and relaxing with a good book, knitting or by doing a jigsaw puzzle.

BOARD CO-CHAIR

Kim has lived in the tri-village area for 20 years where she runs a successful remodel and vacation rental management company with her husband Brien.

Over the years, Kim has always known CARTM to be an important touchstone. From working at the facility, hanging trash art shows and helping to remodel the main building, Kim always felt that CARTM was much more than a recycling facility. She understood that is was a place for our diverse community to meet and create, exchange news and ideas and of course exchange stuff!! CARTM brought everyone together for the good of the community and when CARTM closed she knew we lost something vital.

Kim is proud to be a part of the new Heart of Cartm board and is committed to the re- imagination and resurrection of this most important community institution.

BOARD TREASURER

Justin Weiss is a human, who above all else, loves to play in the dirt. He spent his formative and academic years interested in learning anything and everything about the natural sciences; diving in both inside, and outside, the classroom. He possesses a bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona in Environmental Studies, and completed his Master’s Thesis at San Jose State University, focused on sustainable waste management and extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies.

Justin relocated to the Oregon coast in January, 2021, to start a career with the Tillamook County Solid Waste Department; he is currently a Supervisor at the Manzanita transfer station. Being a long time advocate for initiatives which strive to promote sustainability and the arts, he was more than excited to join the new CARTM Board. Justin looks forward to continuing to work/live in the TIllamook County coastal community, striving to support the mission and energy that CARTM possesses.

BOARD SECRETARY

Dan Haag is passionate about outdoor recreation and keeping our green spaces beautiful. He grew up hiking the woods and paddling the waters of Minnesota before moving to the Oregon Coast to escape long cold winters. Along with his wife and a series of rescue Labradors, Dan has lived on the north coast for over 30 years, migrating from Cannon Beach to Nehalem in 2001. After nearly 10 years operating the Manzanita Visitors Center, Dan transitioned to his current role as Director of Trails, Outdoor Recreation and Accessibility at Tillamook Coast Visitors Association in 2021. There, he works on ways to educate visitors on best stewardship practices and to improve access to the outdoors for people of all abilities. Dan holds a Bachelors in History from Linfield College and a Masters in writing from Pacific University.