Kristina Trinity Hartley - ECI Operations Manager
Stable despite the shocks
By Jim Poyser
We don’t need to tell you that 2024 was a year of shocks, but it was also a year that saw the unprecedented stabilization of our own organization. Why is that? Well thank goodness, we hired an Operations Manager! That’s right, on Earth Day, 2024, we added our sixth employee, Kristina Hartley, to run our operations, including HR, data conversion, financial reporting; what some might call administrivia. This was such a relief to me personally, as our growing organization was simply becoming too complicated for me.
Kristina joined us and exceeded all expectations, adding tasks to her list of duties beyond what was on the job description we publicized last year. This is where my fellow staff members caution me NOT to use the Big Lebowski rug metaphor, so, okay, I’ll comply. Kristina has automated many of our actions and activities, allowing the rest of us to spend more time on what we love doing: serving the youth of Indiana, and their adult supporters, to learn more about caring for the environment, and how to turn that education into action.