Are you a Native artist who hasn’t yet got online? Do you make a craft product but don’t know where to sell it? The IDRS Acorn Project is offering a free course that helps you launch a store on Etsy, the world’s largest site for handmade and vintage items.

Etsy is the leading global marketplace for selling handmade and vintage goods to more than 40 million customers. IDRS has created the Etsy Craft Entrepreneurship Workshop for Native artists/crafters that are looking to expand their customer base beyond the boundaries of their own community and sell to consumers world-wide.

The Chemehuevi Tribe’s Introduction to Etsy will take place on Friday April 3rd from 12 pm to 1:30 pm.  Registration is open to all community members and the workshop is free to attend.  To register please click on the “Going” button above and fill in your information.

The Workshop will be held at the Chemehuevi Housing Conference Room which are located at 1980 Valley Mesa Road in Havasu Lake, California.

For more information, please contact our community host Vern Escobar at 760-858-5100 or at 442-230-9334.

You can also reach out to Camille Koster from the IDRS Acorn Project at camille@idrsinc.org.

About Your Presenter:

Camille Koster (Cherokee) serves as the Youth Program Manager for the IDRS Acorn Project. Through the program, she teaches youth how to explore entrepreneurship and create side hustles which provides them the opportunity to make money while continuing to focus on their education . She has worked in youth development and in nonprofit for the last 18 years, both writing and facilitating camps across the nation. She has co-facilitated camps with the Drug-Free Communities National Initiative, Students Working Against Tobacco, Cherokee Nation Behavioral Health, ONABEN, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, and more. Camille dedicated five years of her youth development career as the Chief Operating Officer of Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma. She successfully assisted in one the largest youth entrepreneur programs as she helped build strategy and infrastructure for a cookie sale campaign that led to her local Council selling over 1 million boxes of Girl Scout Cookies in Eastern Oklahoma.
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Camille is a United States Navy Veteran and is proud to have represented the Cherokee Tribe in the military. During the time she served, only 15.4% of the military was comprised of Native American members, likewise, only 4% were female members. She has a Masters Degree in Organizational Management. Camille lives in Jenks, Oklahoma, is married to a Firefighter and has three children.

The CO.STARTERS Bootcamp is funded in part by the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, the USDA Rural Business Development, and the CA Governor’s Office of Business & Economic Development.