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.

Eleanor Klock, Operations Associate

Email: eleanor.klock@portlandpf.org

Eleanor is a writer and visual communicator from Albany, Oregon. She joined the Portland Parks Foundation in February 2023. Growing up, she frequented trails along the Willamette river with her family.

While working for Girl Scouts of San Diego, Eleanor recognized the importance of and need for youth engagement in the outdoors. Her experience hiking, climbing and camping with kids of all backgrounds inspires her parks advocacy today. In 2022, Eleanor graduated with bachelor's degrees in journalism and Spanish literature and culture.  During her undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon, she contributed as a writer, illustrator and editor to the independent student newspaper, Daily Emerald. Eleanor is excited to contribute to growing the accessibility and inclusivity of Portland’s green spaces. On her days off, you can find her drawing and admiring views of the city at Mount Tabor.

Board

JR Lilly, Chair
Multnomah County

Kregg Arntson, Vice Chair
PGE Foundation

Silas Sanderson, Secretary
Schnabel Engineering

Jonathan Nicholas, Treasurer
Moda Health

Subashini Ganesan-Forbes, Exec. Comm. Member
New Expressive Works

Melissa Naito, Exec. Comm. Member
Community Volunteer

Mary Ruble, At Large Exec Member
U.S. Bank (retired)

Suzanne Bishop, Exec. Comm. Member
Community Volunteer

Angie Burcham
Perkins Coie

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