Clients
Short biography of who i am, passions, life story.
Selected Recent Clients, Employers, and Affiliated Organizations
In the spring of 2020, I served as the campaign manager for the Metro Council campaign for longtime Portland climate and housing advocate Chris Smith. Chris advanced to the general election after finishing second in a contested, five-way primary election this May. Chris won the endorsements of the Portland Mercury, Willamette Week, Sunrise PDX, The Street Trust, Metro Council President David Bragdon, and others.
I have held leadership positions on a variety of campaigns to pass school bonds with Wright Public Affairs for the past four years for school districts around the state of Oregon. Our biggest accomplishments include the passage of the 2017 PPS School Bond (then the largest in the state of Oregon) as well as the 2020 PPS renewal and the 2018 Oregon City School Bond. I have also managed a communications program for the Gresham-Barlow School District for the past four years, producing newsletters, videos, photos, and social media content highlighting improvements funded by the 2016 Gresham-Barlow School Bond.
Wright Public Affairs
Spring 2017 - Present
Oregon Walks
Board President
August 2013 - May 2017
For just under four years, I served as board president of Oregon Walks, the state's pedestrian advocacy organization. Oregon Walks advocates to make walking as a transportation option safe, convenient and accessible for every Oregonian in the state, regardless of which community they call home. Under my stewardship, the organization grew significant in scope, size, and stature to be a preeminent voice and advocate for transportation justice in municipal, regional and state conversations. Oregon Walks played a prominent role in spearheading the collaborative advocacy campaign to push the City of Portland to adopt policies for implementing Vision Zero to eliminate traffic fatalities.
As Board President, I worked tirelessly with our staff, community stakeholders, elected officials, bureaucrats, planners, funders, and the abundant community advocates to continue to bolster an organization that advocates for an equitable, intersectional, and community-empowering approach to pedestrian advocacy.
I served as the campaign manager for the Fix Our Streets Portland campaign to pass a ten cent gas tax in May 2016. Our campaign solicited and received the endorsement from over fifty community organizations and advocates from across Portland; I authored ten pamphlet statements in the voter's guide, coordinated press releases and media outreach, and highlighted the dire need for investments in sidewalks and crosswalks in Portland's most vulnerable neighborhoods. We were opposed by out-of-state opponents in the Petroleum industry, who spent over $70,000 for mailers and a disinformation campaign. I The victory was a culmination of years of working with community advocates in Portland's active transportation field, building pressure and support for elected officials to invest in eliminating traffic fatalities, and campaign experience from decades of electoral organizing in previous positions.
The following November, I conducted similar work with Measure 26-178, which renewed a local option levy for maintenance and operations for regional conservation.
Next Up Oregon (formerly known as the Oregon Bus Project)
May 2014 - Oct 2015
I served as outreach coordinator for the Oregon Bus Project (now known as Next Up Oregon), empowering youth to lead voter registration drives and push for progressive policy in the state legislature. As Outreach Coordinator of the Oregon Bus Project, I led the program's voter registration drives, built a volunteer base of enthusiastic high school students, and passed the #FreshStartOregon bill through the Oregon Legislature. The law provides a legal pathway for expungement of petty marijuana crimes for as many as 60,000 Oregonians, and Oregon's successes led to similar legislation being introduced by Rep. Earl Blumenauer in Congress that summer. I also conducted the Bus Project's social media, outreach, and logistics for passage of New Motor Voter, the first automatic voter registration legislation in the country. I also coordinated the organization's voter registration drives for the 2014 cycle, working closely with immigrants' rights organizations in support of driver's cards for undocumented residents. I ran Brewhaha! events that discussed local political matters, and orchestrated the Bus' 2015 National Voter Registration Day, which mobilized over 140 volunteers to register 1230 Oregonians to vote in 12 communities and 35 schools across the state on a single day.
Notable Clients and Employers
In other relevant employment contracts, short-term positions and internships, I have produced content, coordinated programmatic offerings and events, and provided administrative support for the Outdoor School for All Campaign, New Approach Oregon PAC, Portland Public Schools, Oregon Environmental Council, Bicycle Transportation Alliance, The Intertwine Alliance, Groundwork Portland, and Oregon Metro.
Speaker, American Public Transportation Association’s Transit Initiatives and Communities Workshop: “Moments and Movements” Austin TX, July 2022
Keynote speaker, Pennsylvania Greenways and Trails Summit: "Walking the Walk: Committing to Coalition Building for Equitable Communities" Reading, PA, September 2017
YIMBYtown 2017 Conference - Presenter: "Intersectional YIMBYism," Oakland, CA, July 2017
YIMBYtown Conference - Presenter: "Whose Backyard, Anyway?" Boulder, CO, June 2016
Oregon Active Transportation Summit - Attendee, Portland, OR, April 2015
International Trails Symposium - Presenter "Trails for All" Portland, OR, April 2015
Vision Zero Cities Conference - Attendee: Brooklyn, NY, November 2014
International Trails Symposium - Presenter "Youth Engagement with Trail Planning": Phoenix, AZ, April 2013
Washington State Trails Coalition Conference - Presenter: "Youth Engaged in Planning: Three Strategies, Three Projects, Three States" Vancouver WA, October 2012
Oregon Active Transportation Summit - Presenter "Economics impacts of the Midtown Greenway" Salem, OR, April 2012
Association of American Geographers Conference - Academic Research Presenter, "A Greenway Runs Through It," Washington DC, April 2010
Select Conferences and Presentations
Board Secretary, Portland: Neighbors Welcome 2021-Present
Transportation Mentor - Sunrise Movement PDX 2019-Present
Portland Bureau of Transportation: North Portland in Motion Project Advisory Committee, Member 2021-Present
1000 Friends of Oregon: Land Use Leadership Initiative - Mentor, 2015-2016
Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability: Comprehensive Plan Advisory Committee - Networks, 2013
1000 Friends of Oregon: Land Use Leadership Initiative, Student - 2013
Boise Neighborhood Association Communications Chair, 2011 - 2013
Portland Parks and Recreation: North Portland Greenway Project Advisory Committee - Member, 2012
Oregon Metro: Regional Active Transportation Plan - Youth Representative, 2012-2014
107ist: Member, 2011 - Present
