KC Marold is a born and raised Oregonian and a wine industry veteran. She has held a variety of international and domestic roles in the industry with over 15 years of experience working in Australia, New Zealand, and Oregon. Her extensive knowledge spans winemaking, marketing, event production, and national sales and she is a graduate of Linfield University in McMinnville, the home of IPNC, in addition to being a longtime resident of McMinnville. She sits on the board for local non-profit, Wine Country Pride, where she brings her passion and enthusiasm for hospitality, customer experience, events, and spreadsheets. She has been a wine educator since 2007 and loves helping people discover new wines, new regions and the amazing town she calls home. She thinks Champagne is for any occasion, has two cats, Napoleon and Charlemagne, is regretfully dairy intolerant, and desperately wishes she were a morning person.