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Meet Our Team

Our staff and board partner with volunteers across the region to make this work possible.

  • Working alongside volunteers to care for Oregon and Southwest Washington.

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David Bagwell

Event Coordinator
(he/him)

"The path is made in the walking of it." 

- Zhuangzi

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Mark Blanchard

Event Coordinator
(he/him)

"The future depends on what we do in the present."  - Gandhi

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Abby Boyle

Program Manager
(she/her)

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."

- Alice Walker

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Dedie Cameron

Senior Development Manager (she/her)

"Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compel us to act on their behalf." - Laurence Overmire

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Pamela Canter

Office and Board Relations Administrator (she/her)

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou​​

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Kris Carico

Chief Executive Officer 
(she/her)

"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

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Avery Garritano

Outreach & Volunteer Coordinator (they/them)

"You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Dr. Jane Goodall​​​

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Larissa Gordon

Development Director
(she/her)

"Nature is not a places to visit. It is home—and like any home, everything within it depends on the rest to stay standing."
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Gary Snyder ​​

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Natalie Hayashibara

Staff Accountant 
(she/her)

"Life is uncertain; eat dessert first." 

- Unknown

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Jack Hochberg

Program Manager
(he/him)

"There are those fortunate hours when the world consents to be made into a poem"

- Mark Doty

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Souhair Kenas

Event Coordinator
(she/her)

"All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change." - Octavia E. Butler 

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Taylor Neitzke

Program & Communications Director (she/her)

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

 

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Johan Perez

Business Development Manager
(he/him)

"Be realistic, demand the impossible."
- Anonymous slogan from the May 1968 protests in Paris, France 

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Mikel Sunyich

Program Coordinator
(she/her)

"I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift."
- Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Stefanie Wich-Herrlein

Senior Communications Manager (she/her)

"The journey of a thousand miles begins
with one step."

 - Lao Tzu

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Lou Zeller

Program Coordinator
(they/she)

"Cumulatively our small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference."

- Dr. Jane Goodall 

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Our Board

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