Ruth Ann Barrett
Founder
Ruth Ann is an entrepreneur, producer, videographer, writer, and marketing executive who has worked with a wide variety of technology companies in a marketing career that spans more than a quarter-century.
EarthSayers
For the last thirteen years, she has worked to advance the voices of sustainability - those speaking on behalf of Mother Earth and her children - using the WorldWideWeb. In 2007 she founded the EarthSayers Network with the launch of EarthSayers.com, a.k.a. EarthSayers.tv a specialized search engine to the curated Voices of Sustainability.
The archive of these voices is at www.EarthSayersNetwork.com.
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The Barrett Family founded EarthSayers a charitable fund created for making gifts to sustainability-oriented nonprofits for their work supporting Mother Earth and her Children.
Background
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Red Direct
From 1994 through 2007 as the founder of the independent San Francisco direct marketing agency, RED Direct, and with years on the client-side with industry leaders HP, Sun, ComputerLand, and Informix Software, her team produced direct marketing campaigns with exceptional response rates from executive-level decision-makers for start-up companies to include WebEx, Commerce One, Red Hat, Ask, Juniper Networks.
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Red Digital Marketing (RDM)
Ruth Ann continues to provide marketing consulting services to sustainability-related individuals and companies as Red Digital Marketing.


PDXdowntowner
A resident of three Portland neighborhoods - Downtown, Old Town and the Pearl District for thirteen years between 2009 and 2023. The Old Town community was her home as a resident and business owner from 2013 - 2019. Her activism work is summarized at pdxdowntowner.com and pdxcaring community.com.
