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Karleen Kos is executive director of the Portable Sanitation Association International. She may be reached at karleenk@psai.org or 952-854-8300.
Every so often, I run into someone who doesn’t know what an association is. They ask what I do for a living and then cock their heads to one side with a quizzical look as I try to explain. Over the years, I have boiled my answer down to an “elevator speech.” Today when I...