Our Team
Our history of effective results is a direct result of innovative, collaborative problem-solving performed by a group of talented and hardworking individuals. Meet our dedicated staff.
Ben Brint (he/him)
Senior Climate Program Director
It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it." - Rabbi Tarfon (Pirkei Avot 2:16)
Clara Ridabock (she/her)
Digital Communications & Marketing Manager
The greatest danger to our future is apathy." - Jane Goodall
Crystal Weston (she/her)
Environmental Health Program Director
I did my best, and let me urge you to do your best, too. Isn't it the least we can do for one another?" - William Saroyan
Eliza Walton (she/they)
Legislative Director
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising.” Carl Sagan
Grace Gonzalez (she/her)
Executive Assistant
We take care of the Earth, because the Earth takes care of us.” - Kathryn Norregaard.
Guthrie Straw (he/they)
Office Manager
Much of history is unwritten. Remember this. - N.K. Jemisin
Ilene Moss (she/her)
Director of Finance & Administration
Clean air and water, a healthy climate, and an unpolluted landscape” – a recipe for a sustainable future doesn’t get much simpler than that.
Jacqui Treiger (she/her)
Strategic Campaigns and Partnerships Director
You may say I'm a dreamer, But I'm not the only one, I hope someday you'll join us, And the world will live as one”- John Lennon
Jana Gastellum (she/her)
Executive Director
Optimism is a political act.
Janell Brittain (she/her)
Membership Director
Oregon is a true gem and we need to do everything in our power to protect the fresh air, clear desert skies, and mountain-top vistas that define this state. I could not be more honored to live in Oregon, and work to protect this amazing place we call home.
Janne Sepp (she/her)
Database & Membership Administrator
The indigenous people around the world before they made a major decision used to ask themselves: how does this decision affect our people seven generations ahead?” -Jane Goodall
Jessie Kochaver (she/her)
Clean Grid Campaign Director
Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. 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, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Karen Lewotsky (she/her)
Rural Partnerships & Water Policy Director
There’s no place like home.
Kevin Kasowski (he/him)
Director of Foundations & Corporate Relations
Gratitude is the source of all happiness.
Kristopher Fortin Grijalva (he/him)
Senior Transportation & Thriving Communities Director
The pursuit of full humanity, however, cannot be carried out in isolation or individualism, but only in fellowship and solidarity;” ― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Max Light-Pacheco (he/him)
Community Engagement Manager
In the end, we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.” ― Baba Dioum
Meagan Golec (she/her)
Major Gifts Officer
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Sam Pape (they/them)
Communications & Marketing Director
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. - Octavia Butler