We are excited to welcome Alice Weston to the Oregon Chapter staff team. Based in and focused on Central and Eastern Oregon, Alice will help plan and execute grassroots organizing to protect public lands, clean air and water, and wildlife habitat.
Bio
Alice Weston brings a unique perspective to the Sierra Club as a social impact design strategist and community engagement professional. Her work focuses on helping nonprofits and public entities create and reimagine their programs, processes, and strategies to be more equitable, accessible, and community-led. With a background in nonprofit programming, design education, and a strong belief in community-led innovation, Alice integrates all these elements into her organizing work for the Oregon Chapter, which focuses on public lands and wildlife conservation as well as renewable energy and clean transportation issues east of the Cascades mountains.
Alice is a recent alumna of the Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) AmeriCorps program, where she served as the Rural Energy Coordinator at the Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) for Central and South Central Oregon. Before her service with RARE, Alice graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Masters in Social Design program, equipping her with skills to approach social impact work through the lens of design thinking and community co-design. She also collaborated with The Environmental Center in Bend on their Solarize Deschutes campaign and is a founding member of Ignite Design Group, a community-centered design cooperative.
Alice is originally a marsh kid from Savannah, Georgia. She is a slow hiker and yes, she will be stopping to pet all the dogs and look at all the birds and mushrooms.