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Friends and Partners
GemKitty truly values the efforts of our fabulous friends and partners. We wouldn't be here without you!
If you are interested in collaborating with us, please get in touch.
Friends
These peeps inspire us with their creativity and beautiful designs. Thank your for your friendship and kindness.
A Little Something (The Denver Refugee Women's Craft Initiative)
Based in Denver, Colorado, A Little Something is a benevolent enterprise dedicated to helping refugee women achieve self-sufficiency and personal empowerment through the beauty of handmade crafts.
Persecuted for their race, ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation, and having been forced to flee from such troubled regions as Somalia, Burma, Bhutan, Iraq, and Sudan, many of the refugee women participating in our program struggle with the additional challenges of lack of education, language skills, and prior professional experience.
A Little Something hopes to empower these women by providing a cooperative means to develop their crafting skills and to sell their creations while fostering a supportive network of artisans.
Partners
A huge hug and thank you to the best team we could dream of. We could not and would not be here without your efforts and love.
Todd Silverstein
Gemkitty’s co-founder Todd Silverstein is responsible for safeguarding the online designing experience, managing partner relationships, and, of course, keeping the gemstones especially shiny and polished. He is convinced, despite accumulating evidence to the contrary, that he can speak with cats.
Jon Raasch
Front end developer, web designer, UX nerd and marketing buff—Jon Raasch has many hats and he gets to wear them all for GemKitty. After joining the GemKitty squad in the summer of 09, Jon has been programming all things front-end as well as providing SEO, user experience and graphic design support. Catch him biking around Portland in skinny jeans with the other hipsters.
Econify
Econify is a web development firm based in Washington, DC specializing in Ruby on Rails. In addition to building websites for all sizes of clients, they can also help out with deployment, security, and scaling.
Sara Gray
Sara Gray is a photographer from Portland, Oregon. She calls her style "modern photojournalism" and she primarily photographs weddings throughout the Pacific Northwest and portraits within the Portland Metro area, but boy, was she glad to get her camera near the GemKitty bling. You can see Sara’s work on her blog at http://www.saragrayphotography.com.