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:

Abbey Lam
Abbey is a founder of OneEnergy Renewables and leads the company’s Renewable Energy Credit and carbon offset sales programs. In addition, she spearheads the company’s business development efforts. Previously, Abbey was Bonneville Environmental Foundation's Senior Sales Representative, leading the sales team in key areas of marketing, contracting, customer relations, and fulfillment. During her tenure at BEF, the organization garnered the U.S. Department of Energy’s Green Power Supplier of the Year Award (2009). Expert in the WRI Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Corporate Standard for preparing GHG emissions inventories, she is a trusted advisor on carbon footprint analysis and green power.

Aireen Joven
Aireen Joven's journey has taken her many places including the Philippines where she was born, growing up in the Chicago area, a semester in six Asian countries, an eight month internship on an organic non-profit farm in Wisconsin, and the beautiful Pacific Northwest, her new home since June 2009. Aireen has a B.F.A. and has worked as a photographer, deputy state coordinator for a US presidential campaign, teacher's assistant at a low-income childcare center, and currently Team Leader in Garden Based Education, an AmeriCorps position at Northwest Service Academy. For her AmeriCorps Community Action Project, she is studying ecovillages and sustainable human settlements.

Ben Dupree
Ben DuPree works in progressive politics and citizen involvement in Portland and Oregon. Presently, he works with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden's 2010 campaign and is the Co-Chair of the Metro Regional Government's Committee for Citizen Involvement. Previously he has worked with Portland Mayor Sam Adams, Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian, and State Representative Brian Clem. He and his wife, Mele, live in Northeast Portland’s North Tabor neighborhood.

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 passion for sustainability, community building and information sharing drives her innovative approach to social networking and forms the foundation for her work. As a community strategist for branding firm Riley Weiss and online media strategist for Social Enterprises + The GoGreen Conference, Bethany uses the tools of the Internet to tell and share stories the world needs to hear.

Gina Franzosa
Gina Franzosa is an experienced leader and practitioner of green building. A civil engineer, Gina served as the first Oregon State Director of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, where she played a leading role in shepherding the growth of Oregon’s sustainable building movement. She is currently a construction project manager and real estate entrepreneur with Terrafirma Building Inc., where she pilots new sustainable development strategies. Gina is passionate about addressing climate change in ways that will expand local economies and boost individual prosperity. When not enjoying happy hour or Portland's latest culinary creations, she can be found digging in her garden or practicing yoga.

Graeme Byrd
Graeme Byrd is a Sales and Marketing 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 works at The Standard, in Business Development. 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.

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 Deputy Development Director at Oregon League of Conservation Voters. 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.