John is the founder of Center for Sustainable Economy and currently serves as both President and Senior Economist. John coordinates consulting work with non-profits, businesses, universities, and government agencies seeking environmental economics expertise and analysis to support their sustainability initiatives and programs. He also leads work on CSE’s Wild and Working Forests, Genuine Progress, and Green Infrastructure Programs.

Daphne Wysham directs Center for Sustainable Economy's Climate Justice Program. A former Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C., where she worked for 20 years, Daphne has worked since the mid-1990s on research and advocacy at the intersection of climate justice and sustainable economies.

Selected as one of the "Grist.org 50 People You’ll Be Talking About" in 2016, Anthony K. Rogers-Wright has over ten years of policy analysis, community organizing and outreach/advocacy experience, and works as a Policy Fellow with the Climate Justice Alliance. While serving as a policy analyst for various environmental consulting firms in California and Colorado, he specialized in land use, Clean Air Act and environmental justice compliance. He has used his organizing and outreach experience to advocate for a variety of social justice campaigns including affordable health care access, decreasing the income inequality divide, and civil rights for LGBT citizens.

Nicholas is the Staff Attorney for the Climate Justice Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy. He graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2009 and received his LL.M. in Law & Technology from Tilburg University, Netherlands in 2010.

A recent graduate of a small, interdisciplinary liberal arts university in Squamish, British Columbia, Elijah has worked as a researcher, writer, and organizer on a range of justice and sustainability projects. In university, he edited the student paper, organized for more meaningful student governance, and published original research on community-based conservation. Prior to joining CSE, Elijah has also worked as a writing tutor, a food-resiliency coordinator with the city of Anchorage, and a construction apprentice in Portland, Oregon. Elijah finished an internship working with CSE's Wild and Working Forest program and is now working as a grassroots organizer in Portland around fossil fuel infrastructure and climate justice issues. He’s grateful to be back home, reconnecting with his city through its inspiring climate justice movement.

Mamelang Memela is a Program Associate with the Climate Justice Program. An international student from South Africa in her senior year at Lewis and Clark College, she is pursuing a degree in Environmental Studies and French while working with CSE’s Climate Justice Program on forests, fossil fuel infrastructure, and grassroots outreach. Her topics of interest include conservation, environmental justice and international environmental policy. Upon graduation, she plans to continue her studies and return to Paris to obtain a master's degree in Environmental Policy with a focus on sustainability in business development. When she is not working and studying she enjoys exploring Portland using Trimet and venturing out into the varying microclimates of the Pacific Northwest.

Dr. Kelly O’Hanley is a board member of the Center for Sustainable Economy. An obstetrician gynecologist with a degree in public health, she has worked in almost 40 countries to foster the health of mothers and babies. She has taught the next generation of physicians at Stanford and Harvard Universities.

Jeri Jimenez is a Native Oregonian and a member of the Klamath tribe, and has won numerous awards for her activism and leadership in the Portland community.  She was introduced to environmental justice issues in 1994 while working as a hotel worker exposed to toxic chemicals.  From there, she became an organizer and has worked in that field for over 20 years developing leadership in people of color to use their own voices to speak for themselves.

Susan, a board member of the Center for Sustainable Economy, is the Executive Director of United Plant Savers (www.unitedplantsavers.org).

Dr. Nejem Raheem serves as an environmental economics fellow at CSE and has worked on CSE projects analyzing the economic impacts of infrastructure development in arctic Alaska. Nejem is an assistant professor of economics at Emerson College in Boston. He brings 10 years of experience as an environmental economist to Emerson.

Richard has been involved with various environmental and public interest groups as an activist, attorney, and CSE board member since 1985. As a public interest attorney, he has been active in representing various public interest "watchdog" organizations in New Mexico in numerous Freedom of Information Act lawsuits over the past 11 years since he moved to Santa Fe in 1995.

Tom Housel is a rising third year law student at University of Oregon. He grew up in the farmlands of northeast Ohio and has spent the past six years in Oregon. Following the most recent presidential election, Tom realized he needed to take action in an area he was passionate about and decided to pursue a career in climate policy. Since beginning law school, Tom has also worked with the nonprofit group, Our Children's Trust, and helped organize the 2019 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, OR. He is thrilled to be spending the summer with CSE to learn some of the intricacies of local and state policy and to help the organization push for positive change in the region he has grown to love.