Experience

The Global FoodBanking Network

• United States
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director, Global Food Systems Partnerships

  • Dec 2020 - Present

  GFN unites and empowers community-based organizations that support those experiencing hunger by cultivating sustainable relationships that build connection. We collaborate with these organizations to strengthen the effort to defeat hunger by supporting food security organizations, and elevating their work with increased efficiency, safety, and scalability. GFN unites and empowers community-based organizations that support those experiencing hunger by cultivating sustainable relationships that build connection. We collaborate with these organizations to strengthen the effort to defeat hunger by supporting food security organizations, and elevating their work with increased efficiency, safety, and scalability.



Oregon Food Bank

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Strategic Sourcing Manager

  • Jun 2014 - Dec 2020

  As Strategic Sourcing Manager at Oregon Food Bank (OFB) I lead a team of Food Resource Developers who facilitate donations from farmers, ranchers, fishers, food processors, retailers and many others to source nutritious food for families served by the OFB Network (21 regional food banks and branches and >1,200 partner agencies). As Strategic Sourcing Manager at Oregon Food Bank (OFB) I lead a team of Food Resource Developers who facilitate donations from farmers, ranchers, fishers, food processors, retailers and many others to source nutritious food for families served by the OFB Network (21 regional food banks and branches and >1,200 partner agencies).



American Leadership Forum - National

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Fellow

  • Jul 2018 - Jun 2019

  American Leadership Forum of Oregon Class 36 (2018-2019) American Leadership Forum of Oregon Class 36 (2018-2019)



State of Oregon

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Trade Manager, Market Access & Certification Program Area

  • Jan 2013 - May 2014

  The Market Access and Certification Program Area assists Oregon's agricultural producers to successfully sell and ship products to local, national, and international markets. The marketing portion of the program area works to promote and create demand for Oregon agricultural products. The inspection and certification portion of the program area adds value by making products more marketable. It also provides services to facilitate product movement, and services that overcome trade barriers and technical constraints affecting agriculture. These programs reach rural and urban areas alike to create jobs and sustainable opportunities for the state's multi-billion dollar agricultural sector.

• Specialty Crop Block Grant Program Coordinator, Agricultural Development and Marketing Division

  • Mar 2010 - Jan 2013

  Coordinate Oregon's Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP). The SCBGP is in the Certification and Market Access program area, which works to increase market access for Oregon's 220 agricultural products in regional, national and international markets.



Chinook Book

• Production Director, Chinook Book

  • Sep 2008 - Mar 2010

• Special Projects Director, Chinook Book

  • May 2007 - Sep 2008



Sustainable Industries

• Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Assistant Publisher

  • Apr 2006 - May 2007

  The concept for Sustainable Industries was hatched in Portland in the summer of 2002 by business journalist Brian Back and Nik Blosser. The first two years of monthly issues, which carried the masthead Sustainable Industries Journal Northwest (that’s 11 syllables, mind you), were produced in a newsletter style, 16 pages long, with both color and black-and-white pages. Over the next several years, the team of stakeholders at Sustainable Industries worked exceptionally hard to create an innovative media company that today serves as the only one of its kind: a fiercely independent, advertorial-free, business-to-business media company that reaches far beyond "green" to provide news, tools and analysis on the greatest economic development opportunities of our lifetime. Sustainable Industries has emerged as a highly trusted voice and vital catalyst for business on the West Coast and beyond. While the entire spectrum of media have scrambled to seize the “green” opportunity, Sustainable Industries remained in a unique position to take the conversation further.



Sustainable Industries

• Portland, Oregon, United States

• Special Projects Director + Advertising Director

  • May 2003 - Apr 2006



Chinook Book

• Research and Consulting Assistant

  • Mar 2000 - Apr 2003

  Founded in April 1999 in Portland, Oregon, Chinook Book had a mission of expanding markets for sustainable products and services. The company currently published six annual editions of the popular Chinook Book print and mobile guides for the Portland, Seattle/Puget Sound, Denver/Boulder, Minneapolis/St Paul, East Bay (Oakland/Berkeley) and Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz and San Francisco metro regions. Founded in April 1999 in Portland, Oregon, Chinook Book had a mission of expanding markets for sustainable products and services. The company currently published six annual editions of the popular Chinook Book print and mobile guides for the Portland, Seattle/Puget Sound, Denver/Boulder, Minneapolis/St Paul, East Bay (Oakland/Berkeley) and Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz and San Francisco metro regions.



OMSI

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Outdoor Educator

  • Feb 1999 - Sep 1999



Pearmine Farms Inc.

• Willamette Valley, Oregon

• Farmworker

  • May 1986 - Sep 1996