Meet CLAUDIA ROBLEE
Meet CLAUDIA ROBLEE
BOOKKEEPER
claudia.roblee@groundworkcenter.org | (231) 941-6584 ext 711
In classic American small-business style, Claudia Roblee and her husband opened a custom picture framing shop in downtown Brighton, Michigan, and ran it there for 31 years. They lived upstairs, right downtown, and raised their children there. The couple became active in the community, volunteering with the Downtown Development Authority, and Claudia chaired the Mainstreet Association. Along the way, Claudia went to seminary and became an ordained multi-faith minister.
Claudia’s community development experience and seminary studies won’t figure directly in her day-to-day work as Groundwork’s bookkeeper, but her deep and up-close understanding of the processes and value of human connection and community will no doubt infuse our work. And of course, Claudia’s direct job responsibilities of tracking income and expenditures is the starting point and foundation for all financial management that follows.
After Claudia and her husband sold their business, they moved to northern Michigan’s Leelanau County, where Claudia’s grandparents had owned farms. “I’ve been coming here since I was born,” she says. “And I knew at a really young age that this is where I wanted to end up.”
Claudia also wanted to continue working part time in retirement, but she wanted work that aligned with her values. And in Groundwork she found so much of what she feels is important: local food, smart transportation, clean energy.