• Over 20 years working in public service.

  • Founder and owner of Reluctant Cynic Legal Services, a public interest law firm helping people who work for the public good

Science and Technology

  • Supported the federal government’s participation in the International Charter on Space and Major Disasters

  • Led comprehensive research and analysis of international markets in conflict timber and efforts to curtail the sale of conflict timber

  • Supported an inter-agency working group developing earthquake prediction models and emergency management plans

Community Services

  • Investigated and corrected an error in how the State of Oregon awarded SNAP benefits to financially struggling veterans allowing about 8,000 veterans living below the poverty line receive the benefits they deserve

  • Helped several hundred Social Security recipients who were left abandoned when their representative payee was investigated for financial malfeasance

  • Worked with approximately 1,200 people each year by listening to and understanding their complaints, and helping them get pissed off at the right people

  • Director and Secretary, Friends of Lone Fir Pioneer Cemetery

  • Director, Dreaming America

Equity

  • Regional Campaign Manager for the No on 13 Campaign (1994) covering Linn, Benton, and Lincoln Counties

  • Speaker during the No on 9 Campaign (2000), attending almost 100 house parties that raised just under $125,000 (in total); also debated Scott Lively, Lon Mabon, and other representatives of the opposition

  • Served as General Counsel for Delta Lambda Phi, the oldest and largest collegiate fraternity for queer men and led the fraternity’s efforts to revise its membership policies to specifically include transgender men

  • Director, Basic Rights Oregon

  • Director, Portland Area Business Association

Legal Counsel

  • Helped the City of Condon successfully appeal and receive an award of several million dollars in energy efficiency grants

  • Helped stakeholders in Eastern and Central Oregon address and curtail a rogue strain of genetically engineered creeping bentgrass that had escaped into the wild

  • Helped small, regional airports successfully engage with the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)

  • Supported legislative and political analyses of Senate bills related to reforming the patent system, improving online security and privacy, regulating genetically modified foods, and ensuring that financially struggling people receive proper legal representation when applying for government benefits