Since 2001, we've contributed over $13 million for Portland's parks and park programs.  Through leadership and partnership, we continue to raise friends and funds for Portland parks.

Staff

Jessica Green, Executive Director

Email: jgreen@portlandpf.org

Jessica Green joined the Portland Parks Foundation in January 2017. Prior to coming to PPF, she co-founded her own run coaching company in Brooklyn, NY offering virtual and personal training throughout the U.S. For the last six years she oversaw all operational and financial components for her business in addition to providing coaching services.  Before starting her own business, Jessica was committed to the outdoors working as a geologist for TRC Environmental Consulting, Inc., an environmental remediation firm.  She received her bachelor’s degree in Geology from Hamilton College in upstate New York.  Her passion for the outdoors and public parks is strong. She spends much of her free time running along the trails in Forest Park or playing in one of Portland’s many amazing parks with her husband and three children.  

Jason Brown, Programs Manager

Email: jason.brown@portlandpf.org

Jason joined the Foundation in March 2023. Having moved to Portland in 2022, he has enjoyed his past cityscapes of New York City and Chicago as much as he loves (and misses) the woods in which he was raised in rural Connecticut. He is excited to get to know and wander more of our “city in the forest.”

In 2021, Jason graduated from Parsons School of Design with a Masters in Design and Urban Ecologies. His graduate research and design work was focused on making cities more accessible to and responsible for marginalized populations and communities too often excluded from planning processes. For a decade before this, Jason practiced as a community artist and organizer, bringing free public arts projects to residents of Evanston, Illinois and developing unique community equity mapping workshops through his design studio, Geocommunetrics. Parks have always been part and parcel to his work, and Jason looks forward to further embellishing, enlivening, and emboldening the city’s shared “living rooms” in collaboration with Portland’s diverse communities.

Ashley Jamison, Development Manager

Email: ashley.jamison@portlandpf.org

Ashley joined Portland Parks Foundation in July of 2024. Prior to arriving at the foundation, she spent over a decade teaching science at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), and later joined the museum’s development team in their fundraising efforts. Ashley holds a Bachelor of Science from Evergreen State College, and a Masters in Outdoor Environmental and Sustainability Education from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She has an immense love for Portland, the outdoors, and is passionate about creating equitable access to green space for all. Outside of work you can find Ashley growing flowers and food in her garden, or exploring the many beautiful trails and parks of the Pacific Northwest. 

Ewan Stark, Operations Associate

Email: ewan.stark@portlandpf.org

Board

JR Lilly, Chair
Multnomah County

Subashini Ganesan-Forbes, Vice Chair
New Expressive Works

Silas Sanderson, Secretary
Schnabel Engineering

Michael McIntosh, Treasurer
Oregon Community Foundation

Shannon Alexander
Community Volunteer

Kregg Arntson
PGE Foundation

Suzanne Bishop
Community Volunteer

Angie Burcham
PacifiCorp

Stephen Galloway
Stoel Rives

Jonathan Nicholas
Moda Health (retired)

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