FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Operating Officer
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
Abby Weast joined Friends of the Children as the Chief Operations Officer in June 2018, after over twenty years of leadership experience in operations and finance. After graduating from Bucknell University with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Abby spent four years as an Army Engineer serving in Germany. When she returned to the US, she spent 12 years working for Frito Lay across multiple functions in both operations and finance. While there, she earned her MBA from Cornell University. In 2012, she joined Nike - working as a financial reporting director. Abby has also served on the board for the Portland non-profit LifeWorksNW from 2015-2022. The focus of her career has been building high performing teams to deliver value to key stakeholders. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Aaron, and their dog, Watson. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, watching soccer, reading, swimming, and traveling.
Job Titles:
- Director of Network Strategy
Adrienne Popeney's passion and journey have centered on empowering young people to fulfill their potentials by creating more equitable systems and ensuring adults are positioned to uplift them. She joined Friends of the Children in January of 2023 and brings an extensive background in the mentoring field and national non-profit networks. At Friends of the Children, Adrienne serves as the lead connector and communicator between the national office and chapters, supporting and promoting network-wide collaboration to advance shared goals and opportunities.
Before joining Friends, Adrienne served as the Affiliate Network Director at MENTOR National for seven years. At MENTOR, she built the organizational and talent development of the network, serving to improve organizational health of individual Affiliates and the collective impact of all staff. Prior to MENTOR, Adrienne managed college access and relationship-based programs for youth in foster care in local Los Angeles organizations. Also, Adrienne managed direct service teams within the national non-profits, City Year and GEAR UP, empowering students in under-resourced communities with educational attainment.
Adrienne holds a Master of Social Work degree, with a focus in management and planning, and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Originally from California, Adrienne now lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two children. They love to explore outdoor activities in all four seasons of the year.
Job Titles:
- Gifts Processing and Donor Database Manager
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Senior Accountant
Alyssa is joining Friends of the Children as a Senior Accountant. She comes from a public accounting background and earned her CPA license in Oregon in 2021. Her hometown in Torrance, CA and she has been an Oregon resident since 2017. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, yoga, reading and volunteering at Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Job Titles:
- Board Member / Managing Trustee, Tykeson Family Foundation / Ovando, MT
An active volunteer and community contributor, Amy Tykeson serves regional and statewide non-profit organizations in Oregon and Montana. She is the managing trustee of the Tykeson Family Foundation, overseeing operations and contributions directed toward education for underserved youth, healthcare and health sciences, and access to the arts.
A leader in the telecommunications industry for 34 years, Amy began her career with Home Box Office (HBO) in Chicago and New York. Starting in the late 1990's Amy served as President and CEO of BendBroadband, a family owned cable and broadband company operating in Central Oregon. BendBroadband has been lauded nationally for its outsized contributions to technology leadership, community engagement, and customer service. The company was sold to Telephone Data Systems (TDS) in 2014.
Amy's retirement opened a new chapter of community service. Amy has loaned her talents to numerous regional and statewide nonprofit organizations. She currently serves on the boards of the Meyer Memorial Trust, The Nature Conservancy-Montana, and the Providence Montana Health Foundation. Other recent community service includes the Governing Board for Oregon Health Sciences University, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and the Advisory Board for Oregon State University-Cascades Campus. Amy has served on the Central Oregon Regional Solutions Advisory Board and Now4 OSU-Cascades advocacy group. In the Cable Industry, Amy was active on the national boards of CableLabs, the National Cable and Television Association, and C-SPAN. She is a member of the Arlington Club and the National Center for Families in Philanthropy
Job Titles:
- Certified Public Accountant
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Senior Accountant
Ana Barbara is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Maryland. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting degree from American University, Washington, DC. She has over 18 years of experience in accounting of which includes nonprofit accounting. Her dedication includes supporting local non-profits such as the Boys and Girls Club and Community food distribution centers. Ana lives in Maryland with her husband and child. She loves to travel, enjoys relaxing at the beach, quality time with family and friends, and trying new food.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Chief Expansion Officer
Angela Groves joined the Friends of the Children network in 2013 as the inaugural Executive Director of the Klamath Basin, Oregon chapter. She transitioned to her role on the National Team in 2017. Angela leads a diverse portfolio of expansion and resource development functions for National, playing a key role in our goal to ensure that every child who needs a Friend has one as we grow to 40 locations by 2025.
She leads expansion to various communities, specializing in regions that desire to bring our model to rural populations beyond urban centers. Her expansion role spans from raising capital seed funding and securing cross sector support, through full launch and implementation activities in the early years. Angela represents our work in rural communities and regions nationally, leading conversations and initiatives around rural service navigation and best practices.
She oversees the National grants team, which is tasked with securing funding for National operations, expansion seed capital funding, and providing contracted grant writing services to over 20 Friends of the Children locations across the US. Angela developed our unique contracted grant services support model, which incorporates a combination of strategic consult and high-quality content creation with a focus on collaborative relationships.
Angela's successful tenure as an Executive Director in the network provides experience and expertise that informs her approach to working with and supporting our growing network of chapters and leaders. This includes onboarding new leaders, as well as providing ongoing consult and support of development efforts both at National and across the network.
Angela graduated from Portland State University and is a Leadership Klamath and Ford Institute Leadership alumnus. Angela and her husband and two boys reside primarily in La Pine, Oregon and also call Miles City, Montana home.
Job Titles:
- Strategic Communications Advisor
- Strategic Communications Consultant
Ariane Le Chevallier (pronounced aa-ree-on le che-vol-yay) is a strategic communications consultant and long-time Friends of the Children advisor. She has spent her career raising awareness to inspire action around some of our nation's most pressing social issues. Her areas of expertise are in strategic communications, media relations, messaging, crisis communications, and thought leadership. Her career is rooted in Washington, D.C. where she spent more than a decade working for some of the nation's largest foundations and nonprofits. Before joining Friends of the Children, Ariane was a media relations strategist at academic medical center Oregon Health & Science University where she was brought on to raise the national profile of the university. She generated media coverage in hundreds of national, state, and local media outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, NBC, CBS News's 60 Minutes, and NPR. Before relocating to Portland in 2013, Ariane managed state expansion communications for Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign in Washington, D.C. Ariane also spent six years at issue communications firm GMMB where she worked extensively with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and other mission-driven organizations on dozens of communications initiatives. Ariane received her B.S. in mass communications at the University of Utah and completed master-level coursework at George Washington University. She enjoys exploring Oregon with her husband, son, and their dog Joanie.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Staff Accountant
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- National Director of Technology Solutions
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- Chief Development Officer
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Treasurer / Chief Financial Officer, Anthem Memory Care ( Retired ) Portland, or
Bruce Schoen, now retired, was the Chief Financial Officer of Anthem Memory Care providing operational and programmatic support to the company. He actively participated in setting Anthem's financial strategy as well as overseeing the accounting staff and providing leadership in financial administration, business planning and budgeting activities, as well as risk management and human resources. Prior to his semi-retirement, Bruce was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Encore Senior Living, which operated 15 senior living communities throughout the country. He was a founding member of Encore and serves on its Board of Directors. Bruce has over 35 years of experience in the senior living and health care industry. Prior to the formation of Encore, Bruce served as Senior Vice President of Brim, Inc. (Encore's predecessor company) and directed the implementation of strategic acquisition plans to acquire hospitals, senior living facilities, and other health care related facilities. Bruce has a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA degree in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics from the University of Oregon. He is married with three children and five grandchildren.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- CEO and Co - Founder, Legal Innovators / Washington, DC
- Co - Founder and CEO of Washington
Bryan Parker is co-founder and CEO of Washington, D.C.-based Legal Innovators, an end-to-end, technology-enabled, talent management solution that has innovated the way in which new attorneys come into the practice of Big Law, and partners with top-tier law firms and corporate legal departments to place lawyers in a two-year apprenticeship style experience. This two-year placement program often results in permanent placement with these prestigious companies and law firms. His company recruits and hires high-quality law school graduates from more than 45 partner law schools using its unique "Money Ball for Lawyers" approach, which helps ensure quality and drives greater diversity, equity and inclusion in the practice of Big Law. Legal Innovators has received a great deal of press around its innovative process and approach, including coverage in The American Lawyer, Bloomberg Law, Law 360 and Above the Law. Its clients include the law firms Latham & Watkins, Linklaters, Morrison & Foerster, Orrick, and Shearman & Sterling, as well as corporate clients like Bechtel and Raytheon Technologies. Bryan is a frequent speaker on innovation, data and efficiency, mental health, and diversity, equity and inclusion in the practice of Big Law.
Mr. Parker began his career with Shearman & Sterling as a lawyer on the mergers and acquisitions team, and also spent time as an Investment Banker with Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch. Prior to helping co-found Legal Innovators, Bryan served as the CEO for a San Francisco, California, venture-backed, community-based marketing technology company (subsequently acquired by Cvent). Mr. Parker also led the Internal Growth and Real Estate operations at DaVita, a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Parker transformed his division from an underperforming $400 million business to a profitable $1 billion enterprise. In recognition of his corporate leadership, Bryan was selected for membership in the Executive Leadership Council, a national organization of African American CEOs and senior executives at Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that experience, Mr. Parker served as the COO of venture-backed Affinity Media. There he took a money-losing operation and helped transform it into a $200 million thriving enterprise operating in the United States, China, and Korea. He led world-wide operations at Affinity Media, and his accomplishments include leading a $60 million round of financing and completing three M&A transactions.
Outside of the workplace, Mr. Parker is very involved in his community. Recently, he was appointed to the prestigious Board of Counselors at Equal Justice Works. The Board includes a broad cross-section of leaders in Big Law, such as public company General Counsel, law firm Managing Partners, and company CEOs. He is also on the National Board of Friends of the Children, an organization seeking to empower children who face obstacles in life and has as its mission to help eradicate poverty. On this board, Mr. Parker serves as Co-Chair of the Racial Equity Committee. Prior to these involvements, Bryan served as an appointed Commissioner with the Port of Oakland, California, where he led fiscal reform efforts, including reducing the Port's debt, cracking down on financial fraud, revitalizing the Oakland Army base (including the consideration of a stadium for the Oakland Athletics), and job creation through smart land use. Before that appointment, Bryan served as the Chair of Oakland's Workforce Investment Board, as a board member of the University of California (at Berkeley) Alumni Association, as a Member of the Board of Trustees for Holy Names University, and as a board member of the Bay Area Chapter of 100 Black Men of America, Inc. Mr. Parker is also a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and spent several seasons coaching football at Castlemont High School in Oakland.
Bryan attended the University of California at Berkeley (BA), New York University School of Law (JD), and is now completing (at night) a Master of Divinity degree at Howard University. He is a member of the California and New York Bar Associations.
Job Titles:
- Chief
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Program Officer
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- Human Resources Manager
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
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- Human Resources Generalist
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
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- Chief People Officer
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- North America Sustainability Services & Strategy Lead - Managing Director, Accenture / Sacramento, CA
Clinton Moloney is North America Sustainability Services and Strategy Lead - Managing Director, for Accenture. Coming from ENGIE Impact, where he spent two years as Managing Director of Sustainability Solutions for the Americas, Clinton also spent seven years at PwC as Sustainability Advisory Leader on Social Determinants of Health and Sustainable Business Solutions. He has over 25 years of strategy consulting experience focused on helping clients frame and mobilize sustainability-driven business transformation in the US, UK, Australia, and SE Asia. Clinton has worked with executive leadership at multiple Fortune 500 companies. He has extensive experience mobilizing entire organizational systems, including internal (e.g., C-suite and middle management) and external stakeholders (e.g., customers and suppliers), around sustainability goals to help foster innovation. He has consulted with leading companies across a broad range of industries including health care, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, communications, finance, software, consumer electronics, and consumer packaged goods. Clinton served for seven years as Vice Chair of the Board of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership in San Francisco, California, a nonprofit dedicated to training ethical, diverse civic leaders nationwide. He served for nine years on the National Board of Friends of the Children, a national nonprofit impacting generational change by providing children facing the greatest obstacles with a long-term professional mentor. Clinton holds an MBA from Stanford University, Graduate School of Business, and a BE with first-class honors in Chemical Engineering from the University of New South Wales.
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- National Grants Specialist
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Commissioner, City of Portland, Oregon ( Retired ) Portland, or
Dan Saltzman has recently retired from his fifth term as a Portland City Commissioner. In his nearly 25 years of public service to Multnomah County and the City of Portland he has been the Commissioner in Charge of over 15 city bureaus and offices. He most recently oversaw Portland Fire & Rescue, Portland Bureau of Emergency Management, Bureau of Emergency Communications, Fire & Police Disability and Retirement Fund, Portland Children's Levy, and the Gateway Center for Domestic Violence Services.
Dan was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Beaverton High School, received a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent many years in the private sector as the principal in an environmental engineering firm. He also served as a staff assistant to Congressman (now Senator) Ron Wyden.
Dan served as Multnomah County Commissioner from 1993-1998 and has also served on the Board of Directors for Portland Community College. Dan's focus continues to be the well-being of our children and families, protecting Portland's natural and economic environment to achieve a more sustainable future, as well as enhancing public safety and opportunity for all Portlanders.
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- REI 's Chief Technology Officer
- Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, REI Co - Op
Dan Shull serves as REI's chief technology officer. In this role, Shull leads the co-op's actions to engage the outdoor community through technology across its retail stores, ecommerce channels and more.
Shull joined the co-op in May 2018 to lead customer-facing technology strategy giving everyone, from store employees to our customers, what they need to connect with the co-op. This role brought together REI's digital and in-store experience, organizing the work in a way that was customer-focused. Shull provided leadership and vision to unite and drive these foundational parts of the business, seamlessly bringing them all together.
Previously, Shull served as chief information officer at Signet Jewelers. Prior to that, he was vice president of technology strategy, architecture and portfolio at Nike and responsible for developing the future state vision for Nike Technology.
Shull has over 30 years of Fortune 500 experience helping large technology teams and companies achieve success across a wide range of challenges. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Phoenix and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
Shull and his wife Helana have been married for over 25 years and enjoy the company of their pets. You will regularly find them outside hiking and exploring Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest.
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- Senior Administrative Support Specialist
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- President and CEO / YMCA
A servant leader of the mentoring movement for more than 20 years, David Shapiro has dedicated his career to working across sectors and driving equity through the power of relationships. His movement-building expertise has been recognized by leading organizations including the Social Impact Exchange, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, the Barr Foundation, and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and his thought leadership has recently been featured in publications including The Hill, The 74 Million, and Thrive Global. Shapiro is a frequent speaker around the country on diverse topics ranging from youth mental health, education, workforce development, and civic engagement centering on the power of social capital and relationships as drivers of healthy development, diversity, and equitable support and opportunity.
During his leadership as the head of MENTOR, the organization has partnered with global brands including the NBA, NFL, Nike, Starbucks, LinkedIn, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and Microsoft to expand the mentoring movement through cause elevation; grown its national footprint to include 24 local Affiliates nationwide providing on the ground expertise; and worked extensively with the Obama Foundation to center mentoring through My Brother's Keeper. In 2014, MENTOR was selected by the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to establish and lead the National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC), a comprehensive resource for mentoring tools, program and training materials, as well as access to no-cost training and technical assistance for mentoring programs across the country. Recently, Shapiro has engaged MENTOR as a founding partner in national coalitions supporting young people in the wake of the pandemic, including READY SET and the COVID Collaborative. In 2021, MENTOR was selected by Mackenzie Scott and Dan Jewett to receive the largest individual gift in the organization's history. Some of MENTOR's other key philanthropic partners include American Student Assistance, Schultz Family Foundation, Bank of America Charitable Foundation, EY, and AT&T.
Prior to leading MENTOR, Shapiro served as CEO of MENTOR's Massachusetts Affiliate, Mass Mentoring Partnership, and held leadership positions with the U.S. Golf Association Foundation and the American Red Cross of Massachusetts Bay. He serves as an emeritus board member of the Mass Nonprofit Network and Common Impact, and is on the boards of the Institute for Nonprofit Practice, America's Promise Alliance, The Center for Healing and Justice Through Sport, and the national board of Friends of the Children. In 2022, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker appointed him to the board of trustees of Bunker Hill Community College, the largest community college in Massachusetts.
Shapiro and his family reside in Boston. He is a husband, father, mentor, and youth baseball coach.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Secretary
- Founder of DJ Wilson Consulting
- Secretary / President and CEO, DJ Wilson Consulting President and General Manager, KGW Media Group ( Retired ) Whitefish, MT
DJ Wilson is the founder of DJ Wilson Consulting specializing in executive and life coaching, strategic communications and leadership training.
Wilson is a past Board Chair (2016-2017) of the Portland Business Alliance (the combined business economic development group and Chamber of Commerce for Portland, OR). Wilson is also a past chair of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters, the Classic Wines Auction (a Wine Spectator top ten wine auction) and the Edward R. Murrow Professional Advisory Board at Washington State University where she also served two terms on the Board of Governors. Wilson also chaired the board for Farestart in Seattle, WA.
Wilson has served on the Board of Trustees for the Portland Art Museum, Pioneer Courthouse Square, Dorenbecher Children's Hospital, SMART (Start Making a Reader Today), Boys and Girls Clubs, and the Citizen's Crime Commission. Wilson also served on the national Television Advertising Bureau Sales and Marketing Advisory Committee, and on an NBC Jay Leno project advisory group.
In 2012, Wilson was inducted into the Edward R. Murrow Hall of Achievement and was the recipient of the Portland Business Alliance "No Glass Ceiling" female leadership award. Wilson is also a past Portland Business Journal Women of Influence recipient. In 2017 DJ was named Broadcaster of the Year by the Oregon Association of Broadcasters and in 2018 DJ was inducted into the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) awaded their highest honor into the Silver Circle.
Wilson holds a bachelor's degree in communications from the Edward R. Murrow College of Communications at WSU and has completed several masters' level classes in Communication Leadership at Gonzaga University.
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- Executive Vice - President for Both Northwest Airlines, Inc
- Honorary Member / Private Investor / Portland, or
Don Washburn has served as the Executive Vice-President for both Northwest Airlines, Inc. and the Marriott Corporation. He was Chairman and President of Northwest Cargo and Chair of Northwest Aerospace Training Corporation. Currently, he serves on several non-profit and for-profit boards, including the Portland Citizen's Crime Commission, the Portland Citizen's Commission on Homelessness, the Oregon Business Association, Stand for Children, and four publicly traded business corporations: LaSalle Hotel Properties, The Greenbrier Companies, Key Technology, Inc., and Amedisys, Inc. Don earned his J.D. from the School of Law at Northwestern University in 1977, an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management in 1973, and his B.B.A. from the School of Business at Loyola University of Chicago in 1970. He also completed post-graduate work at the Harvard Business School, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and the University of Chicago.
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- Chapter Relations Strategic Consultant
Andraé L. Brown, Ph.D., LMFT, professional career highlights include serving as a professor at several colleges and universities, director of community-based mental health, educational, and training facilities, a research fellow, and a member of several national boards. Dr. Brown's industrious spirit enables him to bring a systemic, critical, empowerment, and liberatory framework to the fields of education, mental health, sports, entertainment, public policy, and philanthropy. Critical to his practice is a focus on resilience in street-life oriented families and communities, the psychosocial development of adolescents living in the urban context, contemporary family structures, liberation psychology, cultural equity in service provision, and empowering multigenerational system involved families and caregivers. Dr. Brown is a 2014 recipient of the Early Career Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. He currently resides in Washington, DC, where he is a Professor at Montgomery College and operates HERU Consulting -- an independent clinical, research, and consulting practice.
Dr. Brown demonstrates the unique ability to negotiate the intimate relationships of individuals and families, while addressing global issues such as violence, homelessness, poverty, education, mass incarceration, re-entry services, restorative practices, and health disparities by developing systemic interventions and informing policies impacting families' daily lives and communities in the US and internationally. This is exemplified in his roles as a Consultant and Violence Interruption Expert for the Office of the Attorney General, Washington, DC; Consultant to the Community, Family and Youth Resilience project, in St. Lucia, Guyana, and St. Kitts & Nevis; and Executive Consultant for Policy and Development in the Mayor's Office of Public Safety, Gang Reduction and Youth Development, Los Angeles, CA. In these capacities, he develops and implements community-based gang, violence prevention, and intervention services; employs effective proactive peace-making and responses to incidents of violence; and improves communication and collaboration across stakeholders. Furthermore, Dr. Brown utilizes his trauma expertise to support service providers, first responders, families, and community members to bolster resilience and develop effective strategies to manage the effects of post-traumatic stress, vicarious trauma, and compassion fatigue.
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Chief Officer of Research and Quality
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Chief Officer of Belonging, Culture, & Equity
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Entrepreneur
- Founder / Director, the Campbell Foundation Founder and Retired CEO, Campbell Global / Portland, or
Entrepreneur Duncan Campbell's own challenging childhood provided the impetus for founding Friends of the Children in 1993. We began with three paid professional mentors called Friends serving 24 children in Portland.
Duncan Campbell's passion for helping society's most vulnerable children grew from his own experience as a youth living in a distressed area of Portland, OR. Those experiences eventually led to his founding of four children's organizations: Friends of the Children, The Institute for Children, The Children's Course, and Youth Resources. Early on in Duncan's career, Duncan worked with juvenile offenders and later served as a member of the Governor's Agenda for Children, as Chairman of the Multnomah County Juvenile Services Commission, and was a founding board member of Children First. In 1997 he was a delegate to the President's Summit for America's Future in Philadelphia. As founder and Chairman of The Campbell Group, Duncan has more than 30 years of timberland investment and forest industry experience. He holds a BS degree and a JD degree from the University of Oregon, is an attorney-at-law and a CPA. Duncan devotes his life to serving vulnerable children and families and has been closely involved with Friends of the Children since its inception in 1993.
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Web Designer
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- Partner at GMMB
- Partner, GMMB / Washington, DC
Ellen Frawley, a partner at GMMB and Senior Communications Strategist, has led successful public education and behavior change campaigns that have saved lives, connected families to nutrition support, helped the uninsured gain health coverage, and assisted military service members in making smart financial decisions. Ellen's clients have ranged from large foundations, such as the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, to government agencies, such as the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the USDA Food and Nutrition Service. Ellen's work outside of GMMB includes serving as the National Director of Strategic Communications at City Year, an AmeriCorps program with thousands of young people serving full-time in communities across the United States, Europe, and South Africa. She worked on the Presidents' Summit for America's Future and helped launch America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth in 1998. At the US Department of Education, Ellen led an initiative to engage corporations, nonprofits, and community organizations to collaborate on education issues. Ellen is a graduate of Villanova University and lives in Arlington VA, with her husband and three sons.
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- Senior National Grants Specialist
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Staff Accountant
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Chief Expansion Officer
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Co - Founder, Lustre Retired Partner, Office of General Counsel, PwC / New York, NY
- Retired Partner of PwC
Erica Borden Baird is a retired partner of PwC, where she was Deputy General Counsel. As a member of PwC's Office of General Counsel, Erica gave advice to leadership teams and partners around the world on matters relating to legal, reputational, and business risks, governance, and the development of global and US assurance and risk management policies and procedures. Prior to joining PwC in 1984, Erica was a litigation associate at Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O'Donnell & Weyher in New York and a staff attorney at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Erica graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University and earned her JD from New York University School of Law. She is a co-founder of Lustre, a blog devoted to retired career women. Erica is a member of both the New York and National Boards of Friends of the Children.
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Senior Director of Program Implementation
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- Quality Assurance and Evaluation Analyst
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Chief Officer of Expansion and Policy
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Staff Accountant
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- President
- Immediate past Chair / President, at & T - Oregon ( Retired ) Portland, or
George Granger is President, AT&T - Oregon. Before coming to Oregon, George was Executive Director of External Affairs - California where he managed a team of professionals in a five county area. George previously served as Director of External Affairs for Cingular Wireless where he led the company's legislative and regulatory agenda in eight states. Earlier in his career, George worked as an aide to California legislators at the state and federal level. George was an elected official, serving as a member of the Castro Valley School Board from 1994 to 2013. George has represented AT&T as a board member for a number of leading business and community organizations including: the Oregon Business Association, the Technology Association of Oregon, the East Bay Economic Development Alliance, the East Bay Regional Park District Foundation, and the Chabot Space and Science Center. In past years, he also served as Chairman of the United Way Giving Campaign in Alameda County and as President of the Alameda County School Board Association.
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- Director of Marketing and Communications
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman of the Kuni Foundation
- Chairman, Kuni Foundation / Vancouver, WA
Greg Goodwin is chairman of the Kuni Foundation, one of Washington State's largest private foundations. The Kuni Foundation funds advanced research in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, as well as funding supported living programs for adults with intellectual delays.
Greg retired in 2016 from his position as Chief Executive Officer of Kuni Automotive, a Vancouver-based network of fifteen automobile dealerships in five states. He received his education from the University of California at Santa Cruz, majoring in Political Science.
Today, Greg is active in the Vancouver/Portland metro area, currently as Board Member and Member of the Executive Committee of Friends of the Children National and Vice Chair of Friends of the Children - Phoenix. He previously served as Vice Chair of the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington, board member of the Classic Wines Auction, the Randall Children's Hospital Foundation, and the YMCA of Columbia Willamette. He also serves on the board of PDX Pharmaceuticals, a biomedical research company, based in Portland, Oregon. He and his wife, Michele, co-chaired the Great Adventure Auction for Medical Teams International and the capital campaign to build Randall Children's Hospital. They have also worked on the campaign to build Unity Center for Behavioral Health and have served as local fundraising champions for the Friends of the Children expansion campaign in Southwest Washington.
Greg and Michele Goodwin were named Philanthropists of the Year for 2017 by the Community Foundation of Southwest Washington, and as recipients of the VINI Award for 2019 from the Portland Classic Wines Auction.
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Senior Accountant
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- National Board Liaison / Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Head of the Structured Finance Practice and Transportation Finance at Arnold & Porter
- Partner, Head of Structured Finance & Transportation Finance, Arnold & Porter LLP / New York, NY
Henry Morriello is a partner and Head of the Structured Finance Practice and Transportation Finance at Arnold & Porter, LLP in New York City. Henry represents clients in US and international term securitization and commercial paper conduits involving residential and commercial mortgage loans, corporate loans, equipment leases, student loans, aircraft loans and leases, auto paper, trade receivables, home equity loans, intellectual property royalties, and esoteric assets. He has represented global financial institutions in groundbreaking governmental financial assistance transactions, troubled financial asset portfolio sales, and liquidations. He has been active in representing investment funds and financial institutions in the purchase and financing of financial assets. Henry is a frequent lecturer at conferences across the country and abroad on topics that include asset/mortgage securitization, structured product workouts and restructurings, transportation finance, real estate finance, and alternative investments.
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- Retired Partner, Stoel Rives, LLP
Henry Hewitt was Senior Counsel to the firm. His practice emphasized general business advice, acquisitions, financings, and corporate governance. He joined the firm in 1969 and became a partner in 1975. Henry served as chair of Stoel Rives from 1989 to 1999 and again from 2002 to 2005. He led the firm's Business Services Practice Group from 2005 to 2009. During his career, Henry has been the principal legal advisor to the boards of directors of Tektronix, PacifiCorp, Fred Meyer, Electro Scientific Industries, Sequent Computer Systems, Medford Corporation, and other public and privately owned companies. He has also served on the boards of Columbia Forest Products, Bank of the Cascades, Willamette University, and Lawyers' Campaign for Equal Justice. Henry received his Juris Doctor, summa cum laude, from Willamette University, and earned his Bachelor of Art's degree from Yale University.
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- Belonging, Culture, & Equity Coordinator
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- Director of Performance and Quality Management
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Staff Accountant
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- National Grants Specialist
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- CEO and Chairman, Campbell Global / Portland, or
John joined Campbell Global in 1982, just after its formation, and serves as Chief Executive Officer. He served as Chairman of the Board of Managers until acquisition of the firm by J.P. Morgan Asset Management in 2021. He is the Chairman of the Allocation and Compensation Committees, Vice-Chairman of the Investment Committee, and serves on the Responsible Investment Committee for the firm, plus multiple investment boards. John also serves as Chairman of the Board of OneFortyOne Plantations ("OFO"), an Australian/New Zealand forest products company, and as the Chair of OFO's People Committee, and serves on the OFO Health, Safety and Environment Committee as well.
John has extensive expertise in the capital markets and investment arena on behalf of the firm and its clients and was among the handful of entrepreneurs involved in the formation of the Timberland Investment Management asset class. John has performed virtually all executive functions while at Campbell Global, including acquisitions, business development and market planning, proposal development, contract design, fee setting, product design, tax structure, and strategic planning for the firm in addition to his traditional functions as CEO.
Prior to joining Campbell Global, John was an audit specialist at Deloitte & Touche, formerly Touche Ross & Company. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive) and a member of the Oregon Society of CPAs and the American Institute of CPAs, among other associations, including the Australian Institute for Company Directors and the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).
John holds a B.S. in Business, Accounting, and Finance from Oregon State University. He is a Board Trustee and the Board Treasurer of the Catlin Gabel School, served on the boards of the Portland Chapter and National organization of Friends of the Children in multiple roles over their inaugural decades.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Managing Director, Pivotal Investments / Portland, or
John is a venture capitalist and a managing director at Pivotal Investments, focused on investing in companies developing clean technologies for the sustainable economy. He is the former President of Intel Capital, Intel's strategic investment arm, and was an Intel Corporate Vice-President. Prior to leading Intel Capital, John was instrumental in facilitating Intel's entry into new market segments as an Intel Vice-President and General Manager of the Communications Products Group, the Enterprise Server Group, and General Manager of Intel's desktop motherboard and PC building-blocks business. He joined Intel in 1983. John is a former director of the board of LSI Corporation and currently serves on three private boards, in addition to numerous community activities. He holds a BSEE from Tulane University and MBA from the University of Oregon.
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- Controller - Network Financial Services
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- National Grants Specialist
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Vice - Chair / Vice President and General Manager, North America Kids, Nike / Portland, or
- Vice President and General Manager of the North America Kids Division of Nike
Karie Conner is Vice President and General Manager of the North America Kids division of Nike, based in Portland, OR. She's a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where she received her B.S. in Business Management and played for the Women's Basketball Team.
After graduation, Karie launched her career in sales in Pittsburgh, PA, where she was a Territory Sales Manager for Philip Morris U.S.A. She later moved to Cincinnati to work for Johnson and Johnson as a Pharmaceutical Sales Representative where her team received Regional Sales Team of the year for growing their territory by 35% in a highly competitive marketplace. Karie then moved to New York City to join Nike Inc. and held various roles in sales starting as a Regional Account Executive managing $9M in annual revenue and worked her way to a Strategic Account Executive on the Footlocker business which won National Sales Team of the year and managed over $1B in revenue.
In 2013, Karie moved to Nike World Headquarters to assume the role of Category Sales Director and worked on Nike Basketball and Nike Sportswear across multiple distribution channels over the course of three years. Karie then returned to New York as the Strategic/Regional Sales Director for the Jordan Brand where she grew the business by 20% in three years. Three years later, Karie was promoted to Senior Director of Marketplace at Nike's World Headquarters where she joined the Global Nike Sportwear Team focused on Athletic Specialty and played a pivotal role in returning that business to profitable growth. Karie has been recognized in Sole Collector by a trusted retailer for having made a significant impact on the sneaker industry for creating distribution and sales strategies in some of the most influential markets in the U.S. and across the globe.
In Karie's free time, she loves to travel with her husband, SirAllen, and two children Layla and Champ. She also prides herself on mentoring those who aspire to achieve their career goals.
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- Market Unit Lead - US South, Accenture / Reston, VA
Marty Rodgers is Accenture's market unit lead for the US South and responsible for clients, people, offices, community involvement, and financial performance across the South. He has strategic responsibility for integrating Accenture's services to tackle and solve our clients' most complex problems. Leading more than 17,000 people in his market unit-spanning 15 states that cover key cities such as Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, Houston, and Washington, D.C.-Marty focuses on bringing continuous innovation to clients, attracting and retaining top talent, and strengthening Accenture's impact in the local communities. He is also a member of Accenture's Global Management Committee and North America Leadership Team, as well as the office managing director for the Washington, D.C. Metro Area.
Marty formerly led Accenture's Health & Public Service business in the Southeast, started Accenture's Nonprofit Practice and has been with the company for more than 20 years.
Prior to Accenture, Marty served as a leader in the national and community service and workforce skills fields. He worked on Capitol Hill and helped write several successful pieces of legislation, including creating Americorps-the US domestic Peace Corps-and turning the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday into a national day of service. He also served with the Diocese of Gallup, working with Native American children in New Mexico.
Marty is an outspoken advocate of social responsibility and committed to inclusion and diversity. He previously served as executive sponsor of Accenture's African American Employee Resource Group and of the company's recruiting efforts at historically black colleges and universities (HBCU).
Marty currently serves on numerous local boards including the Greater Washington Board of Trade, United Way of National Capital Area, Federal City Council, and KIPP-DC. He is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C. and a part of the Smithsonian FUTURES Working Group. He is also active on two national boards: President Bush's Points of Light Foundation and the Children's Defense Fund.
Marty joined Accenture in 1997 and became a managing director in 2004. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from Harvard University. He serves on the Board of Trustees and Board of Fellows at the University of Notre Dame.
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- Director of Chapter Grants
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Senior Accountant
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- Director of Program Training & Innovation
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Executive Director, Friends of the Children - Austin / Austin, TX
Nancy Pollard is the Executive Director of Friends of the Children - Austin, Friends of the Children's first Texas chapter, of which she was a co-founder. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English Literature and a concentration in Women's Studies; she then earned a J.D., cum laude, from Southern Methodist University's Dedman School of Law. Nancy practiced as a Trusts and Estates attorney in Dallas at Bisignano and Harrison LLP and in Austin at Andrews Kurth. She was most successful in business development and focused heavily on nonprofit creation and compliance. During this time, she volunteered extensively with the Junior League of Dallas, served on the board of Hope International, and founded and directed August Dog, a nonprofit dog rescue group. When her three children were born, she followed her passion for the nonprofit sector and became an active community volunteer. She now has more than fifteen years of experience volunteering in, building, and leading local and national nonprofit organizations. Nancy has experience serving on a variety of nonprofit boards and currently serves as the 9Chair of the Board of Directors of Austin PBS, as the Chair of the Board of The Marcella Project, as a Director and the Capital Campaign Chair on the Board of Austin Pets Alive!, and as an Annual Giving Special Gifts Co-Chair and member of the National Annual Giving Committee for Princeton University.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- President, Cambia Health Foundation / Portland, or
Peggy Maguire provides leadership and strategic direction to several key areas at Cambia, including ethics, compliance, strategic planning, corporate performance, enterprise risk management and corporate social responsibility. She also serves as president and board chair of Cambia Health Foundation, where she works with a wide range of stakeholders to enhance quality and improve access to palliative care through Sojourns, the Foundation's signature program. Peggy joined the company in 1997 as an associate general counsel and has held several posts, including chief of staff to the CEO, vice president of Legal Services, and director of Litigation & Risk Management prior to being promoted to her current position. Previously, Peggy worked as an attorney at Garvey Schubert & Barer, and served as a judicial extern to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Passionate about the health, education and wellbeing of all children in our community, Peggy lends her time and talent to several nonprofit organizations. Peggy is Chair of Start Making a Reader Today (SMART), and Executive Vice President of Doernbecher Children's Hospital Foundation Board. Peggy was honored by Dress for Success Oregon with its Athena Award in 2016. She was also recognized by the Girl Scouts of Oregon and Southwest Washington as a Woman of Distinction in 2015, and with an Orchid Award from the Portland Business Journal as a Woman of Influence in 2014. Peggy is a senior fellow of The American Leadership Forum of Oregon. She received her bachelor's degree in philosophy and anthropology from Lawrence University and her law degree from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College.
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- National Content and Digital Marketing Manager
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- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
- National Program Director
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- National Data Support Specialist
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- National Grants Specialist
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- Chief Development Officer
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Director, Microsoft Corporation ( Retired ) Clyde Hill, WA
Sharon Maghie served as a Director at Microsoft Corporation through her retirement in 2000. Sharon's responsibilities included the design and management of Microsoft's stock option plan, 401(k) Plan, and domestic benefit plans, as well as the management of all programs in Human Resource Operations. Under her leadership Microsoft, in partnership with Smith Barney, created and deployed the first online tool allowing employees to exercise their stock options from their desktop. In 2000 Sharon co-founded the Seattle Chapter of Friends of the Children and has been actively involved in the growth and development of this vibrant organization. Sharon has also been instrumental in her work with the Microsoft Alumni Network and the Microsoft Alumni Foundation since her retirement from the company. She has served on the boards in several capacities, and is currently Board Secretary of both organizations. Sharon graduated from the University of Washington with a BA and a Master's Degree in Public Policy.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Chairman / Partner Emeritus - Seattle, Fenwick & West LLP / Seattle, WA
- Corporate and Securities Partner
Stephen Graham served as a Fenwick corporate and securities partner before retiring from the partnership in 2022, becoming partner emeritus. He founded the firm's Seattle office in 2008. Prior to working at Fenwick, he was a corporate and securities partner at two AmLaw 50 firms. At one of which, Stephen founded the firm's Seattle office and served as chair of its global Corporate Practice Group. Stephen concentrated his practice in the areas of private and public mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements and corporate governance matters, including advising boards of directors and audit, compensation and nominating/corporate governance committees, preparation and filing of periodic SEC reports and other securities law compliance, including Sarbanes-Oxley Act matters and disclosure issues with respect to Rule 10b-5 and Regulation FD. His practice focused on the representation of emerging and established high growth companies, essentially serving as an extension of the senior management teams and boards of directors.. Currently, Stephen is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Washington Federal Bank (NASDAQ:WAFD), the largest bank headquartered in Washington ($20+ billion in assets), and a member of the board of directors of WBX Pharma, a biotech startup.
Stephen has been recognized by Chambers USA as one of the top corporate and M&A lawyers in Washington. He is also a "Super Lawyer" award recipient, 2000 - 2022, is listed in Who's Who in America by Marquis Biographical Reference, has been recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America, and is a member of the political science honorary, Pi Sigma Alpha.
In 2011, Stephen was appointed co-chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies and served in that position until fall of 2017. In 2019, Stephen was appointed to the SEC's Advisory Committee for Small Business Capital Formation..
Stephen is active in community affairs, currently serving on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, and the Friends of the Children National Board. He received his B.S. from Iowa State University and his J.D. from the Yale University School of Law.
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- Director of National Grants
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- Senior Administrative Support Specialist
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- Chief Officer of Advancement and Tribal Relations
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- Learning Management System Specialist
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Friends of the Children National Team
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Duncan & Cindy Campbell Professor of Children, Youth & Families, School of Social Work, Portland State University / Portland, or
Thomas Keller, PhD, is the Duncan and Cindy Campbell Professor of Children, Youth, and Families in the School of Social Work at Portland State University. He directs the PSU Summer Institute on Youth Mentoring and the Center for Interdisciplinary Mentoring Research. He also is Co-Principal Investigator of the BUILD EXITO initiative, a major NIH-funded project to support undergraduates from traditionally under-represented student populations in preparing for graduate studies in biomedical and health sciences research. His research interests include the development and influence of mentoring relationships, social networks in mentoring interventions, evaluation of program innovations and enhancements, the professional development of program staff, and the mentoring of undergraduates in science, biomedical, and health fields. Dr. Keller's projects have been supported by the National Institutes of Health, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation. Previously, Tom was a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration where he earned its highest teaching award in 2003. He holds a BS from Stanford University, and an MPA and PhD from the University of Washington.
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- Tribal Program Coordinator
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Executive Director, Friends of the Children - Portland / Portland, or
Traci Rossi serves as the Executive Director of Friends of the Children - Portland, an organization dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by providing youth facing the toughest challenges with 12+ years of relentless professional mentoring from kindergarten through high school graduation, no matter what. She is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the organization and managing day-to-day operations. Friends - Portland has won the Most Admired Nonprofit in the State of Oregon for eight consecutive years.
Traci was born and raised in Oregon, and has over 20 years of nonprofit leadership experience with an emphasis on education, community outreach, and service to underserved communities. Her efforts have been recognized as a 2020 Woman of Influence by the Portland Business Journal and as a Hometown Hero by the Portland Trail Blazers in 2021 for her service-before-self mentality and significant positive impact on the Portland community. She volunteers on local boards in alignment with her personal and professional commitment to youth success and equitable access to services and systems to foster a more equitable Oregon. Traci currently sits on the boards of Advantis Credit Union, the Portland State University Foundation, and the Gray Family Foundation, and is a founding member of the Women's Foundation of Oregon Board and an American Leadership Forum Fellow
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- Member of the Emeritus Advisory Board
- Chairman / Founder, Future School Lab / Sisters, or
- Strategic Advisor
- Venture Partner at the Oregon Venture Fund
- Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources at EF Education
Vanessa Wilkins is a strategic advisor with a history of driving innovation in high-growth purpose-driven companies and leading organizational change. She is recognized as a thought leader in corporate social responsibility, education, and social enterprise.
Currently, Vanessa serves as a Venture Partner at the Oregon Venture Fund, where she was a recent recipient of the Crystal OVFie award, as an Expert-in-Residence at Harvard Innovation Lab, and as a Founder of Future School Lab, where she advises social ventures and purpose-driven start-ups.
As Secretary of the Board of Oregon Community Foundation, a $3.5B statewide foundation, Vanessa serves on the Executive Committee and Nominating Committee, and chairs the Education Committee and the Central Oregon Leadership Council. She also chairs Friends of the Children's Emeritus Board and co-chairs the Racial Equity Committee. Previously, she served as vice-chair of the board of Black Butte Ranch, a resort/hospitality community, and helped create Google and NIKE funded equity design challenges as a board member of Construct.
At NIKE, Wilkins developed and executed a highly acclaimed innovation fund to raise graduation rates and close the opportunity gap in Oregon, amplifying NIKE's reputation and building relationships with key stakeholders. As co-founder of Partners in Scale, Vanessa advised global nonprofits on leadership, innovation, and scale.
As Vice President, Worldwide Human Resources at EF Education, Wilkins created talent, culture, and management development programs to enable rapid growth. Early in her career, Vanessa worked in Venezuela for Empresas Mendoza on a global financial restructuring and then liquidated the group's trade finance bank in NYC.
Wilkins holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree in finance from Boston University.