Our Staff
Learn more about our dedicated staff
Andrea Durbin
Executive Director
Make a difference with your life. Do your best and sleep well at night.
Audrey Butler
Development Coordinator
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." -Dalai Lama
Chris Hagerbaumer
Deputy Director
The root of the word "courage" is "cor," the Latin word for "heart."
Erin Kane
Director of Philanthropy
I believe we must face the causes of environmental degradation head on and inspire our community to act to preserve our state for generations to come. I am driven by a fierce sense of hope and obligation as well as a deep love for Oregon’s trails, trees, waterways, mountains and more.
Ilene Moss
Finance Director
“clean air and water, a healthy climate, and an unpolluted landscape” – a recipe for a sustainable future doesn’t get much simpler than that.
Jana Gastellum
Program Director, Climate
Is it me, or is it getting hot in here?
Jen Coleman
Health Communications & Outreach Director
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human." -Amiri Baraka
Jonathan Lin
Database and Technology Director
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley
Karen Lewotsky
Rural Partnerships Director
There’s no place like home.
Karen Roberti
Operations & Events Manager
Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen
Kevin Kasowski
Director of Foundations and Corporate Relations
Gratitude is the source of all happiness
Morgan Gratz-Weiser
Legislative Director
"Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you." - Wendell Barry
Raphaela Hsu-Flanders
Healthy Environments Engagement Manager
"The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create" - Vandana Shiva
So Tauch
Digital Media Manager
I work to Protect Oregon because...it’s my civic duty to protect our home from climate change, safeguard our waterways and natural resources, and preserve our air quality and the beauty of Oregon for decades to come.
Stacey Dalgaard
Water Communications & Outreach Director
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” –John Muir
Tony Hernandez
Communications Manager
Tony joins OEC after more than 8 years in the newspaper industry, where he covered local government, school boards, crime and justice, extreme weather and other breaking news.