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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2024
EarthSayers is now a non-profit tax exempt organization. Ruth Ann is the President of the Board of Directors. The non-profit is responsible for the content of the specialized search engine as well as pursuing projects that increase the voices of sustainability and funding to smaller, on-the-ground non-profits through donor-advised funds - DAFs.
The EarthSayers Network remains under the helm of Geoff Clevenger, Director, Information Services. His major focus is on incorporating AI into the search engine as well as maintaining the website at earthsayers.org including the archive at earthsayersnetwork.com.
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.
What is an EarthSayer?
Leaders, teachers, businesspeople, scientists, farmers - people from all walks of life - dedicated to the principle of sustainability. They may be addressing environmental, social/cultural, and/or economic issues ranging from global warming to climate justice to the circular economy. An EarthSayer speaks on behalf of 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. For her community communications visit pdxdowntowner.com.
