Rondi Lightmark

Rondi Lightmark has had multiple careers as a freelance writer, educator, grief counselor, photographer, and entrepreneur. In 2005, she combined photography and wit to create Lightmark Press greeting cards, featuring her photos of dogs in cars. In 2019, she sold Lightmark Press to focus instead on the environment.

Rondi lives on Vashon Island, Washington, where she created “The Whole Vashon Project,” an arts and education-based effort dedicated to showing island children that the community is visibly working to address the climate crisis. She strongly believes that the earth and her creatures are not machines to be manipulated, but teachers revealed through biological mysteries that we may never fully understand—but which we ignore at our peril.