OUR PEOPLE
Staff
Our team helps people with different backgrounds, knowledge, skills, interests, and roles come together and do hard work in partnership.
Sara O’Brien
Executive Director, Partner
Ethan Brown
Partner, InfrastructureNext
Lynny Brown
Partner, Health & Outdoors
Ruby Howard
Fellow, PSU Honors Rosenbaum Service Leadership Scholars Program
Emily Irish
Partner, Communications
Erin Legg
Partner, Finance & Operations
Nicole Maness
Partner, Resilient Habitat
Clare McLean
Fellow, Communications
Rose Poton
Fellow, Environmental Justice
Emerson Ringger
Partner, Community Water Solutions
Barton Robison
Partner, Health & Outdoors
Kristiana Teige Witherill
Partner, Natural Infrastructure
Board of Directors
Our board is made up of mixed interests, representing the perspectives needed to make collaborative approaches to conservation work at scale.
Teresa Jacobs
Board President, Port of Portland
Michael Karnosh
Board Vice President, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
Dan Vizzini
Board Secretary, Oregon Health and Science University, Center for Evidence-based Policy
Marc Hiller
Board Treasurer, Lyme Timber Company
Michael Jordan
Board Past President, City of Portland
Sam Baraso
Portland Clean Energy Community Benefits Fund
Mark Buckley
ECONorthwest
John Dunbar
Dunbar Law LLC
Mike Freese
Partner at The Romain Group
Jim Lanzarotta
Moss Adams
Diane Taniguchi-Dennis
CEO of Clean Water Services
