Our Team

Our Founder, Kathy Huber

Our Founder, Kathy Huber founded Painted Bins to lessen the effects of climate change by helping to reduce food waste and the greenhouse gasses that emanate from decaying food in the landfill.

Painted Bins was Kathy’s capstone project while obtaining her MBA in Sustainable Solutions from Presidio Graduate School. It leverages her knowledge about climate change, and her decades of for-profit and nonprofit work experience. As a systems thinker, Kathy recognizes that stakeholders must work together on sustainability issues and Painted Bins offers local governments, schools, residents, businesses, and haulers the opportunity to do so in the diversion of food waste from the landfill, which helps to slow the rate of global warming.

In 2021, Kathy had responsibility for updating the Waste Reduction section of her local Climate Action Plan. The experience provided her with an understanding of the local government’s role in planning for the future, while helping to educate the public about how they can impact climate change.

Kathy has start-up experience in the business world as a partner and founding team member at Alta Energy, Inc., the marketplace for commercial solar deployment, and as the Founder of Market Insite Group, a business intelligence firm that helped retailers and property owners make better location decisions.

Over the years, Kathy has had an active leadership role in local arts organizations such as San Francisco Opera Guild and San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary, thereby supporting her belief that arts education provides students with critical thinking skills. Creative expression can then be used to build awareness around important issues such as the environment. The integration of school children’s artwork into the Painted Bins acts as a motivational call to action across all generations, and is sure to encourage the kind of inventiveness from which new, important projects will be born.

Our Art Director

As a visual artist working in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jennifer Francis Fearon helps Painted Bins with the art side of our projects. Jennifer is an advocate for sustainable homes and workplaces, and maintains a green studio practice. Her nonprofit experience includes Oak Hill School in San Anselmo where she was a founding board member and Marin-Open Studios, where she served as board chair in 2020-2021. She is also an artist member of O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Jennifer holds a BA in Business Administration and an MBA.