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WADE
FICKLER
Acting Executive Director/Policy Director
Wade
Fickler is City Club's acting executive director and policy
director. Wade is passionate about civic engagement and
enjoys working with City Club members as they inspire and
nurture each other to be more informed, more thoughtful
and more engaged in public matters.
From
2000-2002, Wade served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ukraine,
where he worked on business and community development projects.
He has a bachelor's degree in business administration and
worked for several market research firms and an advertising
agency before joining the City Club staff in 2002. Wade
is an avid adventure traveler and ranks Croatia, Turkey
and Nicaragua high on his list of favorite countries visited.
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MARGARET
EICKMANN
Membership & Development Director
Margaret
Eickmann is membership and development director, working
to improve the experience of Club membership and to promote
Club involvement and financial support to members and the
community at large. Margaret has been a member of City Club
since 1991, and knows first-hand that the Club acts as a
portal to active public life.
Before
joining the staff of City Club in 2005, Margaret worked
in arts education—at the Regional Arts and Culture Council
where she ran a program that brought artists into the classroom,
and at the Portland Children's Museum, where she served
as executive director. She has a bachelor's degree in European
History, and a Master of Public Administration from Lewis
and Clark College. She serves on the Board of Directors
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TONY
IACCARINO
Project Manager
Tony
Iaccarino is Project Manager for City Club. He works to
promote a deeper understanding of public affairs by helping
organize the Club's Friday Forums and Ag'ora programs and
editing the Club's comprehensive research studies and ballot
measure reports.
Tony
has a bachelors degree in history from U.C. Berkeley and
a doctoral degree in history from U.C.L.A. Prior to joining
the staff of City Club in 2007, he taught American history
at Reed College and the Northwest Institute for Social Change
and served as an instructor for an innovative “great books”
course for low-income adults sponsored by the Oregon Council
for the Humanities. The author of numerous essays and book
reviews on American politics and social movements, Tony
also chairs the editorial board of Sockeye Magazine, a nonpartisan
regional public-affairs magazine.
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KIM
ADAMS McCOOL Office
Manager/Executive Assistant
Kim Adams McCool is the Executive Assistant/Office Manager
for City Club. She is deeply committed to the Club's mission
of an informed citizenry and active civic engagement. Kim
enjoys facilitating members participation in their community
through Friday Forums and other City Club events. She is
the staff liaison for the New Leaders Council and works
closely with the Board of Directors.
Kim holds a Bachelors Degree from Portland State University,
where she was a founding member of Building Community Through
Consensus, a student-driven consensus consulting group.
Kim has worked in the non-profit sector for the last 5 years.
Prior to joining the staff at City Club in Fall 2006, Kim
worked for National Policy Consensus Center and the Policy
Consensus Initiative.
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Don
Williams,
president, is the chief operating officer at Schwabe
Williamson & Wyatt P.C. He also has a background in the
public sector having served as the director of finance and
administration at the Oregon State Bar, personnel consultant
for the Local Government Personnel Institute in Salem, and
in administrative and departmental management for Clackamas
County. He has a bachelor’s degree from Oregon State
University, an M.P.A. from Portland State University and is
a certified legal manager. Other past and present professional
service and community activities include the Association of
Legal Administrators, Portland Metropolitan Area Boundary
Commission Advisory Committee, and member and chair of the
Oregon City Planning Commission. Don has been a City Club
member since 1972, serving on several study committees including
the recent FPD&R Committee, two terms on the Research
Board, as well as serving on the Board of Governors from 1977
to 1979 and from 1996 to 2000. He received the City Club President’s
Award in 2005.
James A. Zehren, president-elect,
is a partner of Stoel Rives LLP where he is a real estate
development attorney whose practice is concentrated in construction
and design law. He has been active in many civic and governmental
organizations, including as board chair of Oregon Business
Association, chair of Metro Greenspaces Policy Advisory Committee,
board member of Pioneer Courthouse Square of Portland, member
of Portland Parks and Recreation Board, member of Metro Policy
Advisory Committee, board chair of Livable Oregon, Inc., board
moderator of First Unitarian Church, research board chair
and board member of City Club, and on-loan policy staff to
Oregon Progress Board. He has been a City Club member since
1986.
Sue Thomas, first vice president,
is co-founder of Avatar Inc. an organization-development consulting
firm that specializes in strategic planning, organizational
change and cross-sector partnership building. Sue has a master’s
degree from Antioch University in Organization Systems Design
and a bachelor’s degree in business and psychology.
Previous experience includes working at three Outward Bound
Schools in the U.S. and Scotland, both as a manager and a
field instructor leading mountaineering, sea kayaking and
white water rafting courses. She chaired City Club’s
Business & Technology Issue Committee and PDC research
and advocacy committees. She is currently chair of the Research
Board and has been a member since 1998.
Julie Young, second vice president,
is a social worker with clinical experience in community mental
health services. Born and raised on a small dairy farm in
North Dakota, Julie has a bachelor’s degree in psychology
and sociology from North Dakota State University and a Master’s
of Social Work degree from Portland State University. She
co-chaired City Club’s Early Childhood Care and Education
research committee and chairs the Club’s Early Childhood
Advocacy Committee. She sits on the board of Morrison Child
and Family Services and the Dean’s Advisory Committee
at the Graduate School of Social Work (at PSU). She previously
was on the board of Portland Institute of Contemporary Art
(PICA). She is a partner with Social Venture Partners/Portland
and a member of Stand for Children’s Political Advisory
Board. Julie has been a City Club member for seven years.
Sharon VanSickle-Robbins, secretary,
cofounded KVO Advertising and Public Relations in 1983 and
was responsible for directing the firm’s operations
and providing strategic oversight for its public relations
department. Previously, she was a public relations director
for Tektronix, Inc. and has worked for Willamette Week. Sharon
also chaired the Portland metropolitan area’s Regional
Arts & Culture Council and is a member of the University
of Portland’s Board of Regents. She has been a City
Club member since 1996, currently chairs a research committee
and operates a cut-flower business with 5,000 peony plants
on Sauvie Island.
Ted Kaye, treasurer, is vice-president
for finance at TeleDirect International (formerly Wygant),
a technology company serving the contact center marketplace.
He earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate
School of Business in 1979. Formerly the director of development
and budget director at the Oregon Historical Society and the
executive director of Lewis & Clark Bicentennial in Oregon,
his corporate career has included positions in finance and
corporate strategy at Wells Fargo Bank, Pacific Telesis Group
(now AT&T), and the Banco de Santiago in Chile. He is
a past board president of Friendly House and serves as an
officer or board member of several other non-profit organizations.
As a City Club member since 1990, he has especially relished
his participation in the Club’s research efforts. Ted
edits Raven, a scholarly journal of flag studies, and he publishes
and consults in the field of flag design.
Brian Campbell, governor, recently
retired from the Port of Portland where he was a planning
manager for 15 years. In addition to his activities with City
Club, Campbell is currently active in the Oregon chapter of
the American Planning Association and is a land use and transportation
planning consultant. Originally from Southern California,
Campbell has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from
Stanford University and a master’s degree in urban and
regional planning from University of Virginia. Before starting
his planning career, he spent two years in the Peace Corps
working as an architect in Peru. Brian, a Club member since
1996, co-chaired the Growth Management & Environment Issue
Committee from 1996-2002, has served on several study committees
and served multiple terms on the Research Board.
Adam Davis, governor, is a partner
in Davis, Hibbitts & Midghall, Inc., an opinion research
and consultation firm in Portland that specializes in public
policy and planning projects. Since 1977, he has been doing
statewide telephone surveys and completing focus groups across
the state. Adam has also completed many research projects
to support strategic planning efforts for clients ranging
from the Oregon Economic Development Department to the Oregon
University System, and he has assisted ballot measure and
candidate campaigns. A graduate of Portland State University
and the University of Oregon School of Law, Adam has been
a member since 1996.
Elizabeth Reilly, governor, is a
consultant with The Collins Group, a fund-raising consulting
firm. Outside of work, Liz is a board member of Bola Moyo,
an organization working to promote behavior change among youth
in Malawi, where she was a teacher and community development
worker in the Peace Corps. Since the time she learned to read,
she has been known to travel with an unwieldy number of books
and has enjoyed heated debates about them. A recent transplant
to the west coast, she holds dual Bachelor of Arts degrees
in Anthropology and English, with a minor in French from Vassar
College. She has been a City Club member since 2006 and actively
involved in the New Leaders Council this year.
Larry Wallack, governor, is dean
of the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State
University. He is also emeritus professor of public health,
University of California, Berkeley and was a founding senior
fellow and first president of the Rockridge Institute, a California-based
think tank. He is now a senior fellow at the Longview Institute.
In 1993 he was the founding director of the Berkeley Media
Studies Group. Larry has appeared on numerous national and
local news and public affairs television programs. He has
provided consultation to a wide range of local, state, national
and international organizations on issues related to public
health, social change and mass media. He has been a member
since 2004.
Marge Kafoury, governor, directed
Portland’s Office of Government Relations for 19 years,
where she implemented the city’s federal and state lobbying
objectives. She earlier was the director of the Multnomah
County Juvenile Services Commission for seven years. Before
that she was a legislative assistant in the Oregon Senate
during the 1977 and 1979 legislative sessions, and she was
elected to Metro Council in 1979. In the early 1990s Kafoury
chaired City Club’s Program Committee, was a member
of its Board of Governors from 1993-1996, and she received
the President’s Award in 1994 for her outstanding contributions
to political debates. She is currently a member of the Board
of Directors of Portland Center Stage. She first joined City
Club in 1980.
Carla Kelley, governor, has served
as general counsel of Port of Portland since 2002. She is
former deputy general counsel for Northwest Natural Gas Company,
where she worked in the company’s legal department for
more than a decade. From 1987 to 1989, she served as assistant
counsel at the law firm of Miller Nash Wiener Hager and Carlsen.
Prior to that, she was a legal writer/editor in the Office
of General Counsel at Bonneville Power Administration. She
earned a B.A. in Sociology and M.A., Ph.D. candidacy in English
literature and drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and graduated Magna Cum Laude, earning a J.D. from Northwestern
School of Law at Lewis & Clark College in 1987. She has
been a member since 1996.
John Horvick, governor, is the project director
for the Parents and Children Together study at Oregon Health
& Science University. Horvick graduated from the University
of Minnesota in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in
sociology. He joined City Club in 2004, soon after moving
to Portland from the Midwest. Horvick is currently a co-chair
of the Club’s New Leaders Council and has served on
two research study committees. Outside of the Club, he is
a volunteer with Portland’s neighborhood mediation program.
Ron Paul, governor, spent two decades
as a chef and restaurateur before entering the public arena
where his work with the city of Portland brought him to the
intersection of politics and policy. As chief of staff to
then-Commissioner Charlie Hales, he began the effort to develop
a year-round, food-focused public market by convening a citizens’
group that wanted to reconnect with Portland’s long
tradition of public markets. He also participated in shaping
the city’s arts policies and funding decisions. In that
role, he coordinated the city’s lobbying for the creation
of the Cultural Trust and now serves as vice chair of the
Oregon Arts Commission. In addition, he helped the city negotiate
gifts of public art from Xi’an, China and Guadalajara,
Mexico. After seven years with the city, he now consults with
business, government and the nonprofit sector as a “civic
entrepreneur.” He has been a member since 2000.
Chip Lazenby, governor, is general
counsel for Portland State University. He also owns a private
consulting firm, Lazenby & Associates, which provides
business and legal advice to clients. Lazenby was raised in
Cincinnati and has lived in Oregon for over 30 years. He holds
an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a law
degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Oregon. Chip served
for seven years as an assistant county counsel for Multnomah
County. He was general legal counsel to Governor John Kitzhaber
from 1995 through 2001. He was general counsel at the Portland
Development Commission until May 2005, and has been a City
Club member since 2003.
Susan Hammer, immediate past-president,
is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator, focusing on business
and employment disputes. She has been recognized in The Best
Lawyers in America 2005-2006 for dispute resolution. Hammer
was formerly a partner with Stoel Rives LLP and is an active
member of the Oregon and Washington bar associations. She
has served as a mediator for 18 years, as a practicing attorney
for 30 years and is a Fellow in the International Academy
of Mediators. Hammer is dedicated to public service. She is
the past president of the board of Planned Parenthood of the
Columbia/Willamette and currently serves on the board of trustees
for Willamette University. Hammer has been a member of City
Club since 1981.
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