Staff

Angelica Cortes Mejia
Latina Community Lead 
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​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.

Board Members
Lindsay Schmonsees
Co-Chair/Board Member
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Lindsay has been a Green Lents resident for four years and was excited to discover the Tool Library after having previously volunteered at the Northeast Portland Tool Library. With a background in journalism and communications and early experience in publishing, she enjoys putting pen to paper for the organization’s newsletters and events and is excited to bring a strategic vision for communications to the board. Always drawn to mission-driven organizations, she recently took a position as project manager at Cambia Health Solutions, a non-profit health plan provider with deep roots in Portland.​
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Rachel Griffith
Board Member
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Peter Condra
Co-Chair/Board Member
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Rachel grew up in Portland and received her bachelors at the University of Portland. Her professional background is in advertising and digital media strategy, and she currently works at a small ad tech company. Rachel initially volunteered at a pollinator planting event, and then at the Tool Library, and she has grown a huge appreciation for the resources and people involved in Green Lents. She is an avid gardener and enthusiastic plant hoarder. She also loves exploring the outdoors—whether hiking, backpacking, or enjoying one of Portland’s many parks with her dog.
Peter joined the board of Green Lents in 2023 with an interest in expanding pollinator habitats in outer SE Portland. His professional origins are in Portland’s music community, as a production manager, bartender, and musician at venues such as Mississippi Studios and Revolution Hall. Since moving to the Powellhurst-Gilbert neighborhood in 2019, he’s taken a deep dive into landscaping and restoration work as a volunteer with Johnson Creek Watershed Council, Friends of Trees, and OSU’s Master Naturalist Program. Peter is proud to work as Events Manager at Columbia Land Trust, organizing tours of conservation projects and protected natural areas throughout the Columbia River region.
Jody O'Brien
Board Member
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Hannah Rosenau
Board Member
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Marie Rossmiller
Treasurer/Board Member
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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. ​
Marissa Heffernan
Records Keeper
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Marissa Heffernan moved to Lents in 2021 and dove into volunteering with Green Lents, spending many hours at the Tool Library and Malden Court Community Orchard before joining the communications committee, and then the Board in summer 2024. With a background in journalism and environmental science, they love building connections, community and gardens. Born in the (original) Portland (Maine), Marissa misses the winter but enjoys rainy season hikes and the long growing season of Oregon. 
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.​​
Amanda Gallegos
Board Member
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Amanda Gallegos joined the Green Lents Board in 2024. She has a BS in Environmental Studies from Portland State and is the current Event Director at Columbia Slough Watershed Council. She brings with her years of experience in project management, fundraising, communications, and community engagement, as well as a deep love for her bike, her dogs, and a good book.
Marie Rossmiller has been a proud Lentil since 2021 and is honored to serve as Green Lent’s Treasurer. She has a Master’s Degree in Public Policy and Administration and ten years of experience working in nonprofit programs and administration, currently serving as Grant Finance Manager at the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (NARA NW). Outside of work, she finds joy spending time with her family, hiking, and practicing yoga. “I am constantly inspired and appreciative of the amazing work Green Lents staff and volunteers accomplish. Lents is more resilient and beautiful because of them,  and I’m excited to be on this journey.” 
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)
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