KIM LEVAL

Having a Portuguese poet grandfather and a no-nonsense Swedish grandmother with secrets, I was born with stories to tell... Before catching the writing bug, I worked in management and policy director positions for leading regional and national rural development, organic/sustainable agriculture, and environmental nonprofits. In my last nine-year tenure, I served as executive director of the Northwest Center for Alternatives to Pesticides... I write whenever I'm not wearing my business manager hat in my husband's Freedom of Information Act law firm (I wrote most of the website copy).