Jeff has dedicated his life to public service and effective advocacy for the public interest. He has spent more than eleven years as a consumer advocate with the Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon, making sure that utilities don’t gouge ratepayers, and developing progressive energy policy for the state of Oregon.

Jeff also spent nearly a decade working as a social service advocate to set up school breakfast programs and summer feeding programs for children in local communities. He also recognized that families must have the ability to help themselves and he worked to support the start-up of community gardens and plant-and-seed distributions so families could grow their own food.

The hallmark of Jeff’s work has been organizing diverse constituencies around common interests to achieve goals often thought to be out of reach, turning ideas into practical solutions. By organizing diverse coalitions, Jeff has taken on big issues and won. In short, he gets results: