Cheryl Atwater

Smith Gardens, Inc., Bellingham, Washington

Hard Goods Planner/Buyer

• Responsible for managing all hard goods purchases across four growing facilities and multiple contract growers in three different states that provide product for five major retailers.
• Helped company to become a three-time recipient of McConkey Co.’s Million Bottle Award and keep 7.7 million plastic water bottles from heading to the landfill.

The Third State: Cheryl has been published in the American Anthropological Association’s Journal of Consciousness. Her paper reflected a comparative study of vampirism as a third state of consciousness, known as the “liminal state,” from both a literary and folkloric perspective.

On Her Nightstand: “The House of Spirits” by Isabel Allende. “She is a Chilean author who has blended fictional characters with a historical non-fiction timeline that spans four generations in a single family. It is one of the few books that I immediately re-read as soon as I finished!”