Alyssa Royse

My Bio

I never know what to say in these profiles. If there's something you want to know, wouldn't it be easier to just ask me? You can....

I live in Seattle with my husband and our 9 year-old daughter. We have loads of family in town (I mostly grew up here, but also have deep roots in St. Louis, I consider them both home.) I am a total small-town farm girl who raises chickens and bees and has big veggie gardens. I am als a wide-eyed wild child who likes big parties and crazy costumes and make believe.
I believe that we can make the world what we want it to be. And that's why I started JUST CAUSE. It stared as a simple plot to save the world. It has quickly grown to include wonderful partners, friends and business opportunities - all of which serve that initial goal of saving the world.
I consider myself the luckiest person in the world. And I wish everyone felt that. My primary "causes" tend to be Arts and Education, but I can't resist talking about and tweaking any interesting problem..... Join me! I also host a business blog at the Seattle P-I called Start Her Up and am a co-founder of the Biz Chic blog called Pregnant With Startup.

My Blogs

  • Art as Activism - Camera Heads Watching the Watchers

    I am neither an artist nor an activist, though sometimes I wish that I had more of both in me. What I am is a story teller.

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  • Eggs as an Alternative Fuel?

    I have to go somewhere that is 7 miles from my house.

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  • Fashion Victims

    My distaste for fashion labels, brands, icons and whatnot has more to do with my distaste for being told what to do, than anything else. Even as a child, if someone said to me, “you have to wear a dress,” I would immediately go put on a pair of pants and heaven help the person – no matter how big or “authoritative” - who tried to tell me to take off the pants.

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