Meet Our Team
Our staff and board partner with volunteers across the region to make this work possible.
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Working alongside volunteers to care for Oregon and Southwest Washington.

David Bagwell
Event Coordinator
(he/him)
"The path is made in the walking of it."
- Zhuangzi

Mark Blanchard
Event Coordinator
(he/him)
"The future depends on what we do in the present." - Gandhi

Abby Boyle
Assistant Program Manager
(she/her)
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
- Alice Walker

Dedie Cameron
Sr. Development Manager, Corporate Giving (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

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

Kris Carico
Chief Executive Officer
(she/her)
"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss

Adam Green
Fundraising & Partnership Director (he/him)
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."
- Robin Williams

Natalie Hayashibara
Staff Accountant
(she/her)
"Life is uncertain; eat dessert first."
- Unknown

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
Program & Outreach Coordinator (she/her)
"All that you touch, you Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change." - Octavia E. Butler

Sara Lister
Finance Director
(she/her)
"Love is so exquisitely elusive. It cannot be bought, cannot be badgered, cannot be hijacked. It is available only in one rare form: as the natural response of a healthy mind and healthy heart." - Eknath Easwaran

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

Amanda Perrault
Event Coordinator (she/her)
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."
- John Muir

Sue Warren
Corporate Major Gifts Officer
(she/her)
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- African Proverb

Stefanie Wich-Herrlein
Senior Communications Manager (she/her)
"The journey of a thousand miles begins
with one step."
- Lao Tzu

Lou Zeller
Program Assistant
(they/she)
"Cumulatively our small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference."
- Dr. Jane Goodall

Job Openings
We are not currently hiring.
We encourage you to check back for future openings.
