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| Name | Eileen Brady |
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| Info | Eileen Brady is running for Mayor of Portland to bring her results-driven approach to City Hall.
She is a businesswoman, a civic leader, and a sustainability advocate with proven success and a track record of innovation in the private sector, the non-profit sector, and in public policy. She’s been working for over two decades to create new services, new industries, and new opportunities that make our community better– all within a budget and all while maintaining her values.
Eileen’s vision is a Portland where everyone has the opportunity for meaningful work, a healthy environment, safe and vibrant neighborhoods, a strong sense of community, and outstanding schools for our children.
Eileen has a long history of being a pragmatic, innovative, and compassionate leader.
A family of activists
Born in 1961 in Chicago, Eileen is the eldest of five in an extended Irish Catholic family. Her mother served on the Evanston City Council and was a public housing advocate, who taught Eileen the importance of community activism. Eileen was raising money for causes like muscular dystrophy by age nine and knocking on doors for political campaigns at age twelve. When she was eighteen, her principles led her to participate in a non-violent “no nukes” protest that even earned her a couple of weeks in a Richmond, Virginia jail.
A working mom, five bucks an hour
As a young mother, Eileen graduated from Evergreen State College, convinced that business could be an effective catalyst for social change. She moved to Portland and went to work at Nature’s Fresh Northwest, a company that was an early pioneer in the natural foods grocery industry. She started at $5 an hour, earning just enough to pay for child care and worked her way up to Human Resources Director and served on the executive management team. In this role, she helped build a workplace culture of service and community, proving that you can create a sustainable, profitable business by providing a bridge between local farmers, fishers, ranchers and urban consumers.
Building a Portland business
Eileen brought that same philosophy to the launch team of New Seasons Market when she and her husband, along with two other families and many friends, co-founded the Portland-based business that now has 10 stores and employs about 2,000 people. Their goal was to develop a truly local, neighborhood-oriented grocery company that was integrated into its community, featured local foods, and modeled progressive workplace practices, such as offering health care to part-time employees and to all family members, including domestic partners. Brady represented the company on the Oregon Business Association Board, the Oregon Health Fund Board and the Metro Blue Ribbon Bike Trails Commission.
Her results-oriented and focused approach were integral to her success in the high-tech sector, where she served as an Operations Director and Executive Producer and led a team of software engineers, database administrators, instructional designers, and graphic artists to create products for the nation's largest provider of online training programs for Microsoft Windows.
Eileen is also the board chair of Celilo Group Media, publisher of the green coupon guide, ChinookBook.
A commitment to service
Eileen is a respected sustainability expert. She served as Vice President for Food and Farms for Portland’s landmark conservation non-profit organization, Ecotrust, where she focused on market development with special emphasis on bringing together urban and rural communities. She brought this expertise to the advisory board of Voice for Oregon Sustainability and Innovation (VOIS) and to the launch board for the Portland Sustainability Institute (PoSI), where she currently serves as an advisor.
Perhaps Eileen’s most important public service role was serving as Vice Chair of the Oregon Health Fund Board. In that role, she focused on transforming Oregon’s health care system. The board recommended and helped pass the 2009 legislation that provides health care for an additional eighty-five thousand uninsured Oregon children. Eileen is now a member of the Oregon Health Policy board. In 2010 Metropolitan Family Service presented Eileen with its annual Provocateur Award, recognizing her efforts to reform health care in Oregon.
As an involved citizen, Eileen has served Portland in many capacities, including as the board chair of Zenger Farms, an educational farm in Lents that introduces over 4,500 children a year to watershed health and to where their food comes from. She also sat on the City of Portland’s Mt. Tabor Reservoirs Independent Review Panel.
Personal
Eileen and her husband Brian Rohter live in southeast Portland, where they raised their blended family of four children and sent them to Portland's public schools. Eileen has been a SMART volunteer, a soccer coach, a member of the Portland Parks Swim Team board, has chaperoned numerous field trips, and has done playground and lunchroom duty at school for more days than she can remember. Her hobbies include biking, gardening and kayaking. At age 50, she just completed her first sprint triathlon.
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