Executive Director
Debbie Lukas works as a Clinical Herbalist and Herbal Pharmacist with 25 years of experience. She founded the family business Siskiyou Mountain Herbs, and propagates and grows many medicinal plants on the Frog Farm in Takilma, Oregon. Debbie teaches classes emphasizing respect for the land, ethical harvesting techniques and propagation of rare medicinal plants. She has been involved in various nonprofits over the years as staff, board member, and
volunteer. She dreams of uniting diverse people in the Illinois Valley in the quest for sustainable living. She raises chickens, vegetables, herbs and hope! In 2006, she founded the Spiral Living Center with her husband Steve Orr to provide education and support to those living in the Illinois Valley. She currently serves as Volunteer Executive Director.
Community Food Project Coordinator
Meredith Hunt
Bookkeeper
Hannah Sauchyn grew up in Saskatchewan, Canada. After graduating from the University of Regina, she traveled and worked tree planting, picking fruit, and working and woofing on farms all over Canada, the western United States and Australia and New Zealand. She has lived in Southern Oregon since 2014. After arriving in the Illinois Valley, she managed a retail store for seven years. She learned bookkeeping during that time and has been working as a bookkeeper for Intuit and independently for clients since 2022. She believes in promoting community resiliency and loves being a part of the Spiral Living Center team.