CAT POLIVODA-GRAE (she/her) Cake Plus-Size Resale Cat Polivoda-Grae is focused on community, connection, and liberation. She is a small business owner who built and leads Cake Plus-Size Resale, a community-rooted shop grounded in liberation, fat joy, and access to sustainable shopping for plus-size people. She supports small businesses and entrepreneurs through advising, with a current focus on Elevate Hennepin, and takes on consulting and contract work in business strategy and operations. Her shop is in Minneapolis, and she is rooted in Saint Paul, where she lives near her undergraduate alma mater, Hamline University. She loves citrus fruits, swimming, and audiobooks.
Reuse Minnesota was founded in 2012 and is a member-based nonprofit that supports repair, resale, and rental businesses, bringing visibility to the reuse sector as a means to lower our state's impact on the environment.