MEET OUR INCREDIBLE TEAM:
Tori Cole | Breathe Oregon Project Manager
Tori joined Neighbors for Clean Air in Spring 2017 as the project manager for BREATHE Oregon. She earned her law degree from Lewis & Clark in 2015. Tori is both an attorney and an organizer, and has worked with a variety of environmental and social justice organizations in the Portland area including Northwest Environmental Defense Center, Earthrise, Northwest Workers’ Justice Project, and SEIU Local 503.
Prior to pursuing her law degree and moving to the Pacific Northwest, Tori received a B.A. in Political Science with a specialization in environmental policy from College of Charleston, in South Carolina. Growing up in South gave Tori some perspective on how important it is to center low income and communities of color in the environmental movement.
Reach Tori at tori@whatsinourair.org
Lisa Frack | Communications Manager
Lisa has two children who live with her in SE Portland, where the air should and c
ould be healthier for their developing lungs. She joined the NCA board in 2012 to support the organization’s smart, laser-focused work to reduce air toxics across Oregon– for all Oregonians, then jumped in as communications manager in September 2016.
Prior to joining NCA’s team, Lisa served as the Communications Director for Family Forward Oregon, a non-profit group working to create a family-friendly economy in Oregon. Before that she was the Social Media Manager for the DC-based Environmental Working Group, where she also did national online organizing for federal toxics reform. She received her Master’s in Public Policy from Duke University in 2001.
Reach Lisa at lisa@whatsinourair.org
Alexander Golez | Communications & Events Intern
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Kealani Iglesias | Office Manager
Kealani joined Neighbors for Clean Air in March 2016. A current SAHP and home-based small business bookkeeper, Kealani is keenly aware of North Portland’s toxic air. Prior to joining NCA (and the birth of her daughter), she worked as Senior Payroll Specialist with Paychex. Kealani received a multidisciplinary B.A. at Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Her prior non-profit work included Supervisor with Seattle Goodwill Industries. She is excited to forward the mission as a supportive member of NCA’s team.
Reach Kealani at kealani@whatsinourair.org
Mary Peveto | President
Mary co-founded Neighbors for Clean Air in 2010 with friends and neighbors to work for stricter state standards to regulate air toxics in Oregon and to continue to strengthen and galvanize the citizen action necessary to effect change in regulating toxic air pollution. She is a mother of three who calls herself an “accidental activist.” She started organizing neighbors and parents when she stumbled upon a national study published in 2008 that showed her daughters’ school to be ranked among the worst 2% in the nation for schools at risk to toxic industrial air pollution. Mary guides our policy work in addition to leading the organization as a whole.
Reach Mary at mary@whatsinourair.org
Akash Singh | Black Carbon Co-Benefits Intern
Akash is a Post-Baccalaureate student in the Biology department at Portland State University. He joined Neighbors for Clean Air through the PSU Institute of Sustainable Solutions’ climate action program and is working with us to create broader public understanding about the health and climate co-benefits of regulating black carbon. Akash originally began his journey in the spring as an intern with the NCA and he is thoroughly thrilled to come on board in this exciting new capacity.
Reach Akash at akash@whatsinourair.org
Together with our volunteers and donors, this team is ready to accomplish our goal of clean air for every Oregonian all the time.