Staff
Angelica Cortes Mejia
Latina Community Lead She/Her/Hers Angelica was born in Guanajuato, Mexico, and has lived in SE Portland for well over a decade with her husband and son. She has a passion for combining community organizing, accessibility to healthy fruits and veggies, and environmental education. Angelica is heavily involved in Lents and East Portland and is a strong advocate for reducing barriers to engagement and participation. She also works with Growing Gardens as a Community Organizer, Oregon Food Bank, and Leadership Policy Council. In spring 2023, Angelica received her Community Health Workers of Oregon certification.
Since becoming involved with Green Lents in early 2018, Angelica has played an instrumental role in increasing access for Lents Latino/a/x community members. What she loves most about her job is growing through it personally and together with the community members, and seeing happy faces of the people she reaches. Angelica shares that helping marginalized members of our community motivates her to continue developing her leadership. In her free time, she can be found cooking and enjoying the time with her family and community. |
Dasha Foerster
Community Director She/Her/Hers Dasha joined Green Lents in May 2019 equipped with skills and training in nonprofit fundraising and development, community outreach and partnership building. Helping nonprofits deliver upon their clients’ vision and needs is her passion and joining Green Lents was a dream come true. Her other passion is to serve the Ukrainian and immigrant communities of Portland through interpreting, community leadership and service on Metro Parks and Nature Racial Equity Advisory Board from 2019 through 2022.
Dasha became Green Lents' first Community Director in August 2022 and has since been a strong partner to our staff, board of directors, volunteers and neighbors in accomplishing our mission-driven goals and initiatives. As a resident of SE community who is also a first generation immigrant she is inspired by Green Lents' work and responsiveness to our community's needs. In her free time, Dasha can be found playing with her kids, gardening with her parents, doing fun and meaningful things out in our Ukrainian community, and making new discoveries in artistic, environmental and community spaces of our city and region with her husband, family and friends. |
Board Members
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Jody O'Brien
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Hannah Rosenau
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Marie Rossmiller
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Jody Nhâm Munson O’Brien was born in Vietnam and moved to Portland in 1995, when her parents adopted her. She grew up in a big family with six other siblings. She was one of the four adopted siblings in our family. She has a Bachelor of Arts from Portland State University with a focus in education and development. In 2014, she spent six months teaching English in Cambodia for a school-orphanage. She then spent two years teaching in preschools in the Washington D.C. area. In May 2022, she joined as a board member for Green Lents. In the Summer of 2023, she was the lead mentor for two high schoolers who interned with Green Lents. She will also be the lead mentor for Summer 2024 as well.
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A Portland local, Hannah has been in the Lents since 2021 and was lucky to be a recipient of a Green Lents Pollinator Garden at her home in spring 2022.
Hannah’s career has been centered around her passion for social justice and advocacy for consumers in health care, and has a background in working with small nonprofit boards. She loves to bring creativity and build community into whatever project she connects with, including volunteering at the Tool Library and the events with Green Lents. |
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Jason Naumann
Board Member He/Him/His Jason began volunteering with Green Lents Community Tool Library in the autumn of 2015. He has since supported the Tool Library and Green Ring with design, communications and development projects of many kinds through his professional skills as a graphic designer and brand development specialist.
Jason is passionate about reducing waste and increasing access to shared resources throughout Portland and beyond. He is currently working hard to integrate the many sustainable reuse programs across the city into East Multnomah County while supporting our developing Workshops program. |
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Green Lents welcomes people of all races, all religions, all genders, all countries of origin, and all sexual orientations in its programs and spaces. We prioritize the safety of our volunteers and constituents, and reserve the right to deny services or entrance to anyone for any reason that does not discriminate against protected classes under Oregon state law (http://www.oregon.gov/boli/TA/docs/t_faq_protected_classes.pdf)