CREATE Portage County names Kristin Hubbard Dostal as new executive director

STEVENS POINT – CREATE Portage County has a new executive director.

Kristin Hubbard Dostal will spend the next two weeks training and will officially take over executive functions Aug. 19, according to an announcement from the organization.

Hubbard Dostal was most recently the executive director at the Epilepsy Foundation of Wisconsin, where she also served as the development director and program director. According to the CREATE Portage County’s announcement, Hubbard Dostal has experience running a small business as a photographer and has a unique perspective and understanding of the community.

She also earned an accounting degree from Mid-State Technical College and has gone through the Nonprofit Leadership Institute, according to CREATE Portage County’s announcement.

Hubbard Dostal will take over for Maggie Marquardt as the organization’s executive director. Marquardt will continue with CREATE Portage County through Aug. thirty.

Marquardt announced in May she would be stepping down in the fall to pursue a graduate program in clinical mental health counseling after working with CREATE Portage County since 2016 – first on the board, then as its executive director since 2022.

CREATE Portage County started in 2004 as the Arts Alliance of Portage County, advocating for arts and culture. The organization rebranded as CREATE Portage County in 2016 and focuses on initiatives that support all forms of creativity through local investments and entrepreneurship. For more information, visit createportagecounty.org.

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