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
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"The path is made in the walking of it."
- Zhuangzi
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Mark Blanchard
Event Coordinator
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"The future depends on what we do in the present." - Gandhi
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Abby Boyle
Assistant Program Manager
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"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
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
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Kris Carico
Chief Executive Officer
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"Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
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Adam Green
Fundraising & Partnership Director (he/him)
"No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world."
- Robin Williams
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Natalie Hayashibara
Staff Accountant
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"Life is uncertain; eat dessert first."
- Unknown
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Jack Hochberg
Program Manager
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"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
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Sara Lister
Finance Director
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"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

Sue Warren
Corporate Major Gifts Officer
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​"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."
- African Proverb
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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 Assistant
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"Cumulatively our small decisions, choices, actions, make a very big difference."
- Dr. Jane Goodall
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