About

Born in Winchester, Indiana, has been deeply involved in the music industry. He was the co-founder of the record labels Secretly Canadian and Dead Oceans and co-owner of the record label Jagjaguwar. This collective has since blossomed into an international conglomerate known as The Secretly Group. The Secretly Group is comprised of the aforementioned record labels as well as a vinyl manufacturer and broker and a publishing arm called Secretly Publishing. The Secretly Group also includes SC Distribution which is the exclusive worldwide physical and digital distributor for over 150 record labels. He was an integral part in early web based cat meme culture via the internet sensation Lil Bub. Cargill has been a professional musician and has also produced several feature films, albums, books and television shows. One of the things he enjoyed most in his career was working closely with artists. Alder Row is an opportunity to expand this work and share it with the Lopez community. He serves as the Program Director of Alder Row.

Originally from Nebraska, is a dance-based artist and entrepreneur. Her work spans live performance, dance and film, often making research-based work that is specific to a particular site. She earned her BA in Dance from Columbia College, Chicago and got her MFA from UCLA in 2007. Her projects have been presented at institutions such as the ICA, Philadelphia; The Kitchen, New York; The Getty Center and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, The Camden Arts Centre, London; and The Banff Center for Creativity in Canada. Her business ownership includes co-founding Mandrake, a bar in an arts district in Los Angeles, and an art gallery called Champion Fine Art in New York and Los Angeles. She presently focuses both her artistic work and community volunteerism on climate change, anti-anthropocentric views, and food stability and sustainability. As a participant in numerous artist residency programs, she understands the immeasurable value of concentrated time while immersed in nature paired with opportunity for collaboration and exchange. She serves as the President of the Board of Directors.

Jennifer brings over 25 years of business strategy, client service and operational expertise to Alder Row. Her career was built within hyper-creative marketing and advertising agencies in New York & Los Angeles, working with a wide variety of industries from Tech, Healthcare and Finance to Tourism, Entertainment and NonProfit. Jen possesses the unique ability to balance a big picture view of an organization with a deep understanding of what it takes for teams to both execute and thrive. Recently, she served as the Chief Marketing Officer for Choix - a telehealth startup offering telemedicine abortion care during the fall of Roe v. Wade. Jen currently consults and provides fractional leadership to these same types of companies, advising across strategic and business development endeavors, financial health, process best practices and client service at large, helping build strong, sustainable creative businesses. As the very first long-term guest, she spent the summer of 2021 at Alder Row, falling in love with the land, the community and the rhythms of life on Lopez. She is excited to bring her experience to Alder Row, and brings branding, communications and operational excellence to the organization at large. Jennifer serves as the Treasurer of the Board.

Maya is an multi-media artist working in film, video, performance, installation and community-generated projects. Her work interrogates social imaginaries of American culture and how constructions of gender, race, class and progress operate in our shared myths, public rituals and private desires. Social practice has been integral to Maya’s work since 2001, and she has led projects in that vein nationwide, in diverse rural, urban, and suburban communities. Hole in Space (Oakland Redux), commissioned by The Great Wall of Oakland in collaboration with Ellen Sebastian Chang, was recognized as the “Best Public Art Installation” in the Bay Area. Her writing has been published in Contemporary Art Review LA, LA Review of Books (where her essay, Kompromat, was their most read of 2019), This American Life, The Frame at KPCC, ACID-FREE, The Awl, InDance Magazine, and an anthology, CRuDE, published by École Nationale Supérieure d’Art, Bourges. Maya’s depth of experience with making, presenting and writing about art lends substantial expertise to the programming arm of Alder Row. She serves as the Secretary of the Board.

Kim lives on Lopez Island and currently owns and operates her own bookkeeping business. She is an avid gardener, former farmer, teacher, trained chef, and catalyst for community. Through workshops, she shares her knowledge of food, cooking, and butchery and co-authored the book Bounty: Lopez Island Farmers, Food and Community. She has been the chef for countless gatherings on the Island in support of farmers and nonprofit organizations alike, including the series of Evening Meals at the School. In 2009, she represented Lopez at Terra Madre, the International Slow Food Convention, joining delegates from 150 countries to celebrate, encourage, and sustain the biodiversity of food. She has served on the Boards of the Family Resource Center, The Historical Society, and the Locavores, and acts as an Artist Liaison/Head of Hospitality for the Lopez Underground Music Festival. As a member of the Board, she connects artists with community resources, and flexes her culinary creativity and commitment to supporting local farmers at events throughout the year.

Straith is a creative director, filmmaker, and writer focused on championing new voices in emerging media. Her work has been featured in Dirt, VICE, The New York Times, Hypebeast, Coindesk, NASDAQ, The Verge, and more. Straith currently serves as the Marketing Director for Uniswap Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to creating a more open, fair financial system. Previously, she has served as the Chief Creative Officer for Candy Digital and Palm NFT Studio, where she led Web3 production for Warner Bros. Discovery, Universal Music, and artists including Damien Hirst. She led global creative and commercial production as VICE Media Group’s ECD, and has worked with leading brands, including Mozilla, Nike, Netflix, and more. Straith is deeply committed to building new platforms for artists, and brings fifteen years of marketing, creative, and curatorial expertise—ensuring that Alder Row can elevate, champion, and resource emerging voices in the arts.