OEC Emerging Leaders Board

Serving as an advisory board, these entrepreneurs, strategists, community leaders and visionaries under the age of 35 have agreed to share their extraordinary skills to support the mission of Oregon Environmental Council.

We are currently accepting applications to fill a few openings on the Emerging Leaders Board. Check out the application if you're interested.

Bethany Waggoner
Bethany Waggoner is a big believer that two things—awareness and engagement—can turn a simple idea into a ground breaking, world changing phenomenon. Bethany’s commitment to sustainability, integrity and opportunity form a solid foundation that drives her distinct approach to social networking. As Director of Communication for Social Enterprises/The GoGreen Conference, Bethany uses the tools of the Internet to tell stories the world needs to hear.

Graeme Byrd
Graeme Byrd is the Business Development & Collaboration Manager at FMYI [for my innovation], where he teaches customers how to be change agents by using FMYI to communicate and collaborate. Prior to FMYI, he managed marketing for national restaurant chains at Metro Marketing Resources. At Tom Dwyer Automotive, he spearheaded the Carbon Neutral Program with Bonneville Environmental Foundation offsetting over a million pounds of carbon in less than 1 year. Just after graduating from Willamette University, Graeme used his film degree to develop recruitment campaigns for Pacific University and documentaries for the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center and International Korean Adoptee Associations.

Jenna Forstrom
Jenna Forstrom has a passion for social media marketing and non-profit work. She is the Community Manager at Adaptu, an online service that helps people make sense of and be in control of their financial lives. Before this she worked at DSW Collective, a small sustainability consulting firm. Here she completed The Society for Organizational Learning’s Leading and Learning for Sustainability course; and The Natural Step’s Sustainability 101 and Sustainability for Leaders courses. A college graduate from Bentley University, in Boston, Massachusetts, Jenna double majored in Marketing and Business Management and minored in International Studies. In her free time she enjoys traveling, wakeboarding, reading, skiing and home brewing. Follow her adventures on Twitter under @bite4size.

Jude Lieberman
Jude is a native Oregonian with a strong belief in the power of business for social good.  She has over 8 years professional experience helping small businesses across diverse industries with process efficiency and marketing communications. She is currently pursuing her Masters in Business Administration with a focus in Sustainability at Portland State University. Jude also serves on the Leadership Team of PSU’s Net Impact Chapter, and on the board of Levé.

Kristofor Lofgren
Kristofor Lofgren is the creator and owner of Bamboo Sushi, the first certified, sustainable sushi restaurant in the world. Since receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley, Kristofor has become a dedicated “ecopreneur”, viewing business as the optimal platform to quickly affect widespread environmental change. Kristofor’s ultimate goal is to develop a new model for sustainability in the restaurant industry—creating a system of checks and balances to ensure transparency and accountability. Bamboo Sushi has been honored as the small business of the year in the state of Oregon in both 2009 and 2010 by the Better Business Bureau and the City of Portland, Office of Sustainable Development and it was recently named the most sustainable seafood restaurant in the world by Fish2Fork.

Scott Stein
Scott is the Development Director at the Bus Project. He has over eight years experience in the political and non-profit sectors in strategic management and fundraising. Scott has always had a deep love for the environment, he is an avid hiker and snowboarder and has raised awareness for environmental stewardship though his work at the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. He is also involved in creating innovative solutions to social problems through social entrepreneurship and social enterprise development. Scott has a Masters in Public Administration and a Certificate in Global Affairs Policy from New York University.

Zach Hyder
A veteran social marketer, Zach specializes in developing and executing strategic campaigns focused on public health and environmental issues. As the head of EnviroMedia’s office in Portland, he has provided leadership for numerous regional social marketing campaigns for the Oregon Department of Human Services, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, the Northwest Health Foundation and the Climate Savers Computing Initiative. Prior to opening the firm’s Northwest office in 2009, Zach was a Vice President at public relations giant Fleishman-Hillard, where he worked in both Washington, DC and Portland for clients such as VISA, Nike, AT&T, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy.