Raised on Muckleshoot Prairie in the shadow of Mt. Rainier, a land of both towering trees and expansive clearcuts, Brenna started advocating for forests in 1997. Her journey of advocacy took her up to tree sits, into lumber mills, across timber sales, though law school, to meetings, rallies, webinars and more . . . all with a focus of shifting forest management away from commodity production and towards ecological restoration. Along the way, she fell in love with dead trees, forest fires, and learned that Pacific NW forests are some of the best carbon sequestering ecosystems in the world. And learned that snow packs and glaciers are rapidly melting and, if we don’t change forest management, Oregon might start running out of summer water.

The more she learned about forests and climate change, the more Brenna‘s work shifted to focus on that intersection. In 2020, while staff attorney for Bark, Brenna helped launch the Pacific NW Forest Climate Alliance, bringing together over 60 groups across the NW to share resources and take action improving forest management to build climate resiliency and mitigate climate change. She’s thrilled to build capacity for 350PDX‘s Forest Defense Team as the Forest Climate Manager, and looks forward to changing both laws and culture to value Oregon’s forests for more than profit.

Along with loving forests, Brenna also loves long bike commutes, raising dairy goats, talking about death, figuring out how to share life with her intentional community, and being a mom to two awesome kids who are scared about climate change.

Chris is originally from the UK and moved to Portland in early 2018. He volunteered with the Portland Clean Energy Fund campaign before joining 350PDX as a staff member.

Chris is our Volunteer Manager, which involves bringing new volunteers into the movement, training and building volunteer leaders, helping implement our JEDI plan so our movement is equitable and accessible, and helping all our teams be effective movement building machines.

Previously Chris helped run a Scottish nonprofit, 2050 Climate Group, that supports millennials to take action on climate change. He also worked as a sustainability advisor to small businesses and ran a startup to encourage businesses to fly less.

Outside of work he helped set up the local hub of the Sunrise Movement, and enjoys playing music on his loop pedal.

Eloise is a Queer Filipino-American grassroots organizer who grew up in Corvallis, Oregon. She found her roots in climate justice when her family moved to a small farm and learned about gardening and sustainable agriculture, fostering her passion for the Earth and its people. They currently live in Eugene, where they are pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Romance Languages with a minor in Environmental Studies. She has served as the Fossil Free UO campaign coordinator for the University of Oregon’s Climate Justice league for two years and is now the co-director. During her time in the Climate Justice League, she has helped coordinate meetings, rallies, and university-wide events to work towards climate justice on campus.

She has experience working on energy democracy, transportation justice, fossil fuel resistance, and community resilience and empowerment with various groups, including the NAACP, Fossil Free Eugene, Beyond Toxics, and Divest Ed. Collective liberation, community-building, and cultural sovereignty are at the core of their organizing principles, and they are excited to work towards an equitable, fossil-free future! Eloise enjoys going to concerts, playing guitar, collaging, gardening, and going on walks to pet neighborhood cats.

As the Outreach and Events Manager, Kiera supports building the climate justice movement through public outreach, community events, and leading trainings. She is also a go-to person for fundraising and development.

Kiera’s journey in the climate justice movement has evolved from budding interests in environmental protection and water resources to now understanding that the path to climate justice is inextricably linked to the decommodification of land and our bodies. Kiera is a queer Japanese and Okinawan woman who was raised on Kānaka ʻŌiwi land and now resides on unceded Chinook/Cowlitz land. She was activated as a youth seeing the effects of the grotesque militarization of Hawai’i and her homelands and the repercussions it had on land, women, and indigenous people. She is passionate about climate justice, food sovereignty, demilitarization, and anti-imperialist feminism. Kiera was a water resources engineer for four years before joining 350PDX, and currently organizes with the Municipal Eco-Resiliency Project a.k.a. MERP to scale up urban farming for marginalized communities. Along with growing food, outside of work you’ll probably find Kiera practicing ‘ori tahiti and hula, hiking, or enjoying time at the nearest body of water.