Joe Culhane Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

The Institute of Relational Being (IRB) is an emerging organization that is rooted in educational outreach and facilitation but transcends the grounds of academia as it is part of a journey of relational remembrance. This is to say, IRB is an ecocentric entity that is being co-created by humans and their multi-speicies ecological communities, participating in a process that is of service to shifting the dominant political, economical, and social paradigms towards more holistic, relational and inclusive ways of living, learning, and being, together with the rest of this living world.IRB is in part working (and playing) in the space in-between the story and life ways that dominate a majority of our global human centered societies (that we call modernity), and those places and spaces where we are already learning to embrace and respect the rights of the rest of nature. Thankfully we are already seeing legal rights and personhood being acknowledged for certain agency filled beings beyond humans, like Rivers for example, but the great challenge we still find we face are our daily practices and processes we navigate through in the present, where we arrive at a practice and behavioral way of being that has normalized human collaborations and co-creative engagement with our multi-species, more-than-human companions. This is a primary part of the work that IRB is involved with. Joe is honored to be of service to this work as one of the co-creators and founders of IRB, alongside the River Dart, Jackdaws, Nettle, and other beings of South Devon, England and the Canyons, Coyote, Owls, Lavender, and other multi-species beings of The Southern California Coast Bioregion.IRB has a growing number of collaborators of the human variety around the globe and each of them work together with their local ecological communities and bioregions. There are workshops, consulting offerings, trainings, and a Relational Media/Networking App in development.

Portland, Oregon, United States

The Gartrell Group is a small, woman-owned geospatial consulting firm based in the Pacific Northwest. Focused on enabling our clients to better understand and fully capitalize on the role that location plays in their business.My contracted role will involve: ~ Preparing responses to Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and Requests for Information (RFIs) and other types of solicitations published or provided to TGG by public sector agencies~ Perform regular research, searches, and reviews of new opportunities whichTGG may pursue using mutually agreed resources and contacts• Maintain a running list of potential opportunities, making regular updates basedon internal decision-making about whether to respond, seek teaming partners,or to dismiss• Lead efforts to draft and prepare responses, including creating and maintaininga response calendar and schedule for each• Coordinate with other members of business development team, partnercompanies, and TGG staff to support response efforts and to inform relatedmarketing, social media, and business development initiatives.• Help build, expand, and maintain a library of response resources includingproject logs, professional references, team resumes, company overviews, workmethods documentation, and other resources.

Currently volunteering as a Fellow with COMMEET as a Communications Officer. Providing support as a digital storyteller for this exciting NGO.Also helping to explore grant opportunities and further broaden the scope and reach of what COMMEET can be. Grateful and honored to be a part of the team.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Personal and Business Systems Consulting for Hollywood Actor/Director/Producer in Los Angeles, California. Working on ecological awareness and holistic systems approaches, supporting a positive transformative personal and business strategy and trajectory.

Portland, Oregon Area

Reporter and photojournalist with focus on Environmental Justice for The Bridge, Portland Community College's Student Newspaper. Also an outlet for PCC, Sustain Me! Podcast

Portland, Oregon Area

Primary focus on communications outreach for the Sustainability Department of Portland Community College via updating the website, blog writing, social media, and marketing. Founded, created and maintain “PCC Sustain Me!” (sustainability & environmental justice Podcast)Research trends, event management, community outreach, facilitate student/staff/faculty engagementDrive planning, marketing, outreach, and social media for PCC Sustainability. Giving presentations at conferences nationally and internationally and across the district of PCC is also an ongoing role as well.

Portland, Oregon Area

Student Leadership Position. As part of my responsibilities I will be on the Food & Housing Security Task Force and will be involved with the students of PCC on the Cascade Campus and district wide being of service in whatever capacity I am able to.*Since being hired at the district level as the Sustainability Communications Specialist have had to scale back my student leadership roles and will be focusing more on the Environmental Justice work.

Portland, Oregon

Environmental Justice Coordinator. A Student Leadership position at PCC Cascade Campus.

Portland, Oregon Area

Fabric production, design and installations, sales, web development, social media marketing, sales and project management, event planning, photography and video work.

Portland, Oregon Area

Cutting, sanding, and drilling (i.e. building) garden beds, landscaping sights for installation. And helping plant them as well.

Portland, Oregon Area

Operate a business that is the culmination of many of my present passions. The primary areas of focus for Rad Fab & Mahalo Yo! are creating herbal remedies, designing, producing, and installing fabric art installations and sculptures, doing photography and video production, and combining these passions and taking on the wonderful art of bringing them to the world via our age of social media.

Portland, Oregon Area

RAD FAB is a design, fabrication, and installation firm in the business of reshaping our reality.Focuses on higher end installations and projects.

Intern and Employee of The Herb Shoppe in Portland, Oregon. Working weekly mixing herbal blends, making tinctures, providing guidance to customers and supporting the business in many ways. This role evolved over those two years and provided an ongoing educational experience for me all along the way. In that time I also did the Rosemary Gladstar Herbal course and was mentored by the owner, JJ Pursell for a business endeavor I was working on to create a herb shop with a kava and kombucha bar for the island of Kauai, on the Hawaiian island archipelago.These two years amplified my folk herbalism practices and knowledge in extremely beneficial ways.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Helped manage a non-profit organization exploring alternative economic models. Encouraging community connections by helping one another out while not exchanging money. The group's motto is: "Do more of what you love in exchange for what you don't."The Time Bank keeps track of services exchanged within the community through trading an hour for an hour model. This economic practice localizes experiences and keeps value between those who live close to each other and improves community connections. Joe helped lead meetings, write newsletters, operate the website and exchange network, deal with membership needs and facilitate and support community outreach events.

Masters Degree In Engaged Ecology, Environmental Humanities

Activities and Societies: Student Representative for the Programme, role included school wide meetings and providing a voice between.

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General

Graduated with my Bachelor's in Business Management September, 2020.

Associate'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society, Environmental Justice Club Coordinator, Director of Student.

Education record

Bachelor Of Rocking Steady, Dreaming & Manifesting, Visionary Wondering, Passionately Following My Dreams And Bringing Them Into Reality