Experience Included
✓ Volunteer Recruitment
✓ Volunteer Training
✓ Volunteer Scheduling
✓ Front Gate Operations
✓ Parking Coordination
✓ Artist Hospitality
✓ Vendor Support
✓ Security Coordination
✓ Festival Operations
⭐ Core Operations Team
⭐ Inaugural Festival through Year Five
⭐ 60+ Volunteers Coordinated Annually
⭐ Successfully Trained Successor Leadership
"Shoe Fest is one more dance before Summer turns to fall"
Laura's Shoe Fest Timeline
2011
Joined inaugural Shoe Fest
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2012
Volunteer systems expanded
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2013
Festival growth
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2014
Continued operational leadership
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2016
Recruited and trained successor
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Moved to Oregon
How This Experience Shapes Our Work Today:
The lessons learned through Shoe Fest continue to guide the way Fourth Space Network approaches volunteer leadership, event operations, communication, and community-centered event planning. The systems developed, relationships built, and experience gained continue to influence every event we support today.