OUR TEAM
ABOUT
Ensoterra is an Oregon-based consulting business that provides innovative and effective solutions for leaders so that they can focus on supporting their constituents. Founded in 2023 by Katrina Van Dis, we offer a variety of services to organizations and businesses with a sliding scale fee structure. A collaborative team of quality consultants offers a wide range of expertise to enhance your business. Through their lived experience and professional careers, team members use an equity and equality lens throughout their practice.
FOUNDER & PRINCIPLE CONSULTANT
Katrina grew up on a cherry orchard in Eastern Oregonian and is passionate about rural communities, nature and resiliency. She has an entrepreneurial spirit and has started multiple for and non-profit organizations. With a strong intuition, work ethic and vision for how systems integrate and overlap, she is able to translate big picture ideas into on-the-ground projects and link them to potential funding sources. She applies the lens of Ecological Economics — which focuses on the interdependence of human economies and the natural environment — to understand how we make decisions that impact our communities. She founded Ensoterra (truth + earth) to provide much needed services at a sliding scale because too often profit is chosen over purpose.
She is the founder of the High Desert Food & Farm Alliance and co-founder of Oregon Community Food Systems Network.
Areas of Expertise & Interest: Grants, nonprofit management, community & economic development, food systems, community wildfire, ecological economics & natural resources.
KATRINA VAN DIS
MARKETING & GRANT CONSULTANT
Ben is a designer and creative director who has spent over fifteen years building brands and leading creative teams from top to bottom. Whether on the sales floor or the shop floor, curating complex stories, or in the trenches building trust by hand, Ben’s hands-on, collaborative approach to creative problem solving has been instrumental in driving success for businesses large and small. When he isn’t plotting and scheming creatively, he can be found on his bike, in the woods, or behind his drum kit.
Areas of Expertise: Business development, copywriting, project management, creative direction, strategy and Branding, and grant writing.
BEN MIOSI
JANEL RUEHL
GRANT & WELLNESS SPECIALIST
Janel grew up in Oregon and has extensive non-profit and local government experience. She co-founded and was the first Executive Director of the nonprofit, Present and Positive, in Idyllwild, CA, where she also served as a founding member and Program Coordinator for the Idyllwild Forest Health Project. Upon returning to Oregon, she worked as the Community & Economic Development Program Administrator at Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council’s where she was responsible for the development and administration of many region-scale projects and secured grants for local food systems, rural community development, and wildfire prevention. Janel received her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health and works at Forage Wellness Collective. In her free time, she enjoys skiing, paddleboarding, and hiking with her pup, as well as growing, cooking, and sharing great food with close friends.
Areas of Expertise & Interest: Mental health, nonprofit management, community & economic development, grants, food systems and community wildfire.
FOOD SYSTEMS SPECIALIST
Shelley is an experienced Program Manager driven by an instinct to build community-wide resiliency with local farm businesses and expand the availability and accessibility of nutrient-dense, healthy, fresh foods. Her creative thinking and systems-level problem solving allows her to find unique solutions to food access, food waste, and cooperative business development. In 2020, she founded Lane County Bounty, a food hub working with 40+ agricultural producers. She is a leader in partnership with several non-profits working together to implement food equity programs, healthy grocery boxes for BIPOC community members facing food insecurity and expanded service areas in rural communities. Shelley thrives in community and kitchens and believes that nourishing food is a fundamental human right.
Areas of Expertise & Interest: business and community development, cooperative farming, value-added food production, supply chain logistics, catering and events, and thought partner.
SHELLEY SCHULER
TRUSTED PARTNERS
JANE SABIN-DAVIS | Bookeeping and Nonprofit Expert
Jane loves dogs, surfing and biking in the woods. She and her daughter, Katrina, are two peas in a pod and work together to support regional nonprofit organizations. Her passion and expertise are to support start-up nonprofits who often lack resources to create their vision and implement their mission efficiently. She has accomplished this both in Oregon and internationally. Her services are pro-bono through Ensoterra.
Areas of Expertise: Nonprofit management, budgets, bookkeeping & IRS Status
TIMOTHY GORBOLD | Backstitch Collective
Timothy has a curiosity and passion for solving problems and finds joy in expressing his diverse skill set in service to others. As the Founder of Backstitch Collective, he works to enhance joy and wonder in nature for every body, with a specialty in solving challenges for people with disabilities. Tim loves being outside with his wife, Katrina Van DIs, and dog where they can explore the natural world together.
Areas of Expertise & Interest: Product design and innovation solutions for people with disabilities, problem solving, engineering & supply chain logistics.
SUSAN STRIBLE | Susan Strible Consulting
Susan has 20+ years of Executive Leadership Team experience. She is a mindful facilitator of board meetings, strategic planning meetings, mission/values discovery meetings and has experience with non-profit board leadership, and executive committees. Susan enjoys being outdoors on skis, on the golf course, or on the trail with her husband, Todd.
Areas of Expertise & Interest: Strategic planning, facilitator, leadership, brand marketing and thought partner.