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Michael Royce
(Director/President) is an attorney, energy consultant, and nonprofit
executive. Mr. Royce was a trial lawyer from 1979-1995 with the firm of
Royce, Swanson, Thomas, and Coon. He has had extensive experience with
founding and leading non-profit organizations, including provision of
legal and general corporate advice. He has served as a Director and
President of the Magrath Energy Corporation, a Canadian renewable
energy company, from 1986 until the present. He founded Green
Empowerment with others in 1997 and served as Executive Director from
1997 until July, 2006. He has led or participated in human rights
delegations to El Salvador and Nicaragua, served as Vice-President of
the National Lawyers Guild, organized a cooperative for traditional
crafts in Kentucky, personally participated in international
development projects in Nicaragua, Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, the
Philippines, Indonesia, Borneo (Malaysia), and the Thai-Burma border,
and served on the boards of various environmental organizations. He has
a deep commitment to internationalism and the environment based on
principles of social justice and equality.
Lisa Adatto
(Director/Treasurer) is a marketing professional with over 20 years of
coast-to-coast experience developing new programs and products to serve
government. She has been a founder, owner, and senior executive of a
company that provided assistance to government agencies with health and
human services programs. She worked with public officials to design
programs for reaching out to public beneficiaries. She has extensive
experience in public policy development, program design, marketing,
contract negotiation, lobbying and management. Ms. Adatto comes from a
family which emphasized science and concern for the environment. Her
long term plan is to apply her knowledge of marketing and communication
to environmental issues. She has experience as a board member for a
variety of non-profit organizations.
Susan Anderson
(Director) is Director of the City of Portland Office of Sustainable
Development (OSD) -- a municipal agency working to ensure the
environmental and economic health and prosperity of Portland’s
neighborhoods and businesses. OSD is responsible for city wide solid
waste collection and recycling, energy conservation, renewable energy
resources, sustainable construction practices, utility regulatory
issues and a variety of environmental programs. OSD is the lead agency
for implementing Portland’s Local Action Plan on Global Warming -- A
local plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent by 2010. Over
the years, Susan has worked with more than 30 communities to promote
resource efficiency, the use of renewable resources and sustainable
practices in commercial facilities, housing, transportation, land use
planning and economic development. Prior to her work with the City of
Portland, Susan was Director of an environmental consulting firm. She
also held positions with the Oregon Department of Energy, was an
environmental land use planner and a public relations professional. She
holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in Economics, Environmental
Science and Urban and Regional Planning.
Richard Benner
(Director) serves in the Office of Metro Attorney and advises Metro on
urban growth management and transportation. Between 1991 and 2001 he
served as Director of the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and
Development, the state agency that oversees the Oregon statewide land
use planning program. Before that, he was the Executive Director of the
Columbia River Gorge Commission during the time (1987-1991) the
commission developed a management plan for the Columbia River Gorge
National Scenic Area. He spent 12 years as Senior Staff Attorney with
1000 Friends of Oregon. Mr. Benner currently serves on the Board of
Advisors of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts at the
University of Oregon. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the
University of Oregon Law School.
Kathy Fry (Director)
recently moved back to the US after living for 25 years in the South
Pacific working with community development NGOs, including the
Foundation of the Peoples of the South Pacific International and
Counterpart International. She has a masters in International
Management and Administration from the School for International
Training and is currently working at Mercy Corps as the Regional Program Director for Latin America. Kathy 's experience in program development
and evaluation, as well as institutional fundraising has been a great
help to Green Empowerment.
Carolee Lee (Director) has over 18 years experience in
management, brand development, marketing, strategic planning, product
development, research, project management, and financial/market trend
analysis. She earned her MBA with a Marketing emphasis from the
University of Utah and recently wound up a six year role as Vice
President of Marketing at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
(OMSI).
Francie Royce
(Director) spent over 23 years with the City of Portland in various
positions from City Planner, Annexation Coordinator to Project Manager
focusing on alternative transportation programs and policy development.
While completing her Masters of Urban and Regional Planning, she
interned with Instituto Nacional de Vivienda y Urbanismo in Costa Rica.
For many years she has been an activist and board member with a wide
range of community and international groups, including leading a
successful effort to temporarily raise the Business Income Tax to
support public schools, the Zimbabwe Arts Project, and Oregonians
Against the War. She is also a founding member of both the
Portland-Corinto Sister City Association and the npGreenway, a trail
advocacy group. Since leaving regular employment she has been delighted
to have some free lance travel articles published and to contract as an
event coordinator for a non-profit.
David Van't Hof
(Director) is the Oregon Governor's Sustainability Policy Advisor. In
that role, he leads the Governor's Sustainability, Climate Change and
Renewable Energy Initiatives. Prior to his current role, Mr. Van't Hof
practiced natural resource law for Stoel Rives LLP and before that, he
served as a judicial clerk to the Oregon Supreme Court. At Stoel Rives,
Mr. Van't Hof was on the legal team that permitted the state's largest
wind farm and he started the firm's pro bono asylum law practice. Mr.
Van't Hof has served on the board of several Portland nonprofits and he
was one of the founders and Board Chairman of Hands on Portland, a
nonprofit volunteer organization. Mr. Van't Hof served in the Peace
Corps in Senegal, West Africa, and has traveled extensively in
developing countries.
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