National Women's Month Celebration: DBBA

March is National Women's Month, and we are celebrating all of our female-owned businesses in Downtown Bend. For our final post, we are featuring the Downtown Bend Business Association (DBBA).  The Downtown Bend Business Association is run by a female Executive Director, Mindy Aisling, a female Board of Directors President, Jen Steigman and Board Vice President, Sarah Jordan.

Mindy Aisling is a 3rd generation entrepreneur, both parents and both sets of grandparents all owned and operated small businesses.  Mindy grew up working at her mom's photo lab and her dad's auto repair and auto body shops.  As an adult, Mindy has owned and operated 3 different successful small businesses.  Mindy is passionate about entrepreneurship, creativity and communication.  Her values also include a strong belief in volunteerism and giving back to the community.  She previous served as a volunteer mediator at the Deschutes Court House and Community Soulutions of Central Oregon.
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Mindy brings decades of expertise in leadership and small business management to the Downtown Bend Business Association, where she's been in service to the Downtown Bend community since 2015.  In her free time, Mindy loves long backpacking adventures, challenging mountaineering trips, playing board games with friends, listening to live music, competing in bar trivia, and like any good Bendite - drinking craft beer.

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Board of Directors President, Jen Steigman, owns Faveur Eclectic Unique Boutique and Sarah Jordon, Board Vice President, owns Looney Bean Cafe.  You can read Jen's feature here, and Sarah's feature here.