Kristin served as a ranger and peer leader in interpretation and education in the National Park Service for 15 years, and earned a Master’s degree in education at Portland State in 2012. After many years of living in rural areas around the Pacific Northwest, she fell in love with Portland’s wildland-urban interface. Her work coordinating after school programming at a SUN School and leading a Teen Naturalist Team for Portland Parks and Rec got her thinking about how to better connect youth from historically marginalized communities with our amazing urban greenspaces, and she began efforts to found UNP-PDX in fall 2013. Kristin spends her spare time kayaking, hiking, motorcycling, and exploring around the PNW; engaging in additional social and environmental justice advocacy balanced with meditation; and cooking up a feast from her garden plot.
Cam was born and raised in Oregon. He received his BS in Engineering at OSU and completed his medical and residency training at OHSU. Cam is now retired from Pediatrics after over 30 years working in the Portland community, and he is the father-in-law to one of UNP's long-time mentors from our second cohort. He enjoys the outdoors, running, cycling, and spending time with his family.