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Who is
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Marnie is a seasoned changemaker & local progressive leader. She moved to Portland in 1992 after falling in love with our city’s independent mindset, people-powered creativity, and abundance of trees. In the more than 30 years since, she has dedicated herself to protecting this small patch of Planet Earth and the amazing people who call it home. Now she is eager to make Portland a safer and more livable community for everyone.
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Marnie graduated from Lewis & Clark (2004) and is a member of the Oregon Bar. She currently sits on the board of the Portland Fruit Tree Project as well as the Echo Theater Company. Her first job in Portland was working in the Office of Multnomah County for the Chair Gladys McCoy (then later, the interim Chair Hank Miggins) in '93. At the time, she also worked with EMILY's List: a national organization dedicated to electing Pro-Choice women to office. Throughout her career, she has worked across all levels of governance: local, county, state & national.
Marnie will be a highly effective legislator on the new 12-person Council. She is a strong, honest, and direct communicator who can collaborate with just about anyone and achieve practical compromises — while never undermining her deeply held progressive values.​ An organizer at heart, Marnie will offer responsive leadership and top-notch constituent services, always making the people of North and Northeast Portland her highest priority.
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Has a first-degree black belt & teaches young children martial arts
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Volunteers with Moms Demand Action & was awarded the Gun Sense Candidate Distinction
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Volunteered at the Mni Wiconi children’s school at the Standing Rock Reservation during the historic gathering of tribes to halt the Dakota Access Pipeline
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Co-led a movement to change the "Dixie" school district's name which memorialized the pro-Slavery Confederacy​
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Sang at the site where Michael Brown - a Black 18-year-old - was unjustly shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson​​
Racial Justice &
Public Safety
Career Highlight:
As an elected trustee to the Miller Creek Elementary School District in San Rafael, California, Marnie helped manage an annual budget of approximately $28 million and co-led a coalition of parents, administrators, and teachers to secure more stable funding. During this time, Marnie overcame years of resistance to persuade the board to embrace better transparency practices and took specific steps to foster deeper participatory engagement with constituents.
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At the time, the school district was named "Dixie." After Marnie learned of past efforts to change the name originally developed by three Black community members, she decided this work was important and partnered with them to reignite the movement to change the name. They were met with an incredible amount of resistance and Marnie specifically became the target of a lot of negative attention & online hate. But with joy and persistence, the community succeeded in challenging this racist memorial.
a lifelong
community caretaker
Just a few short years ago, Marnie inspired + trained activists across the country how to lobby their local governments to ban the use of Monsanto’s "Roundup" in public spaces. She created a National Map of Poisoned Parks and Playgrounds which showed where public spaces were sprayed with the toxic herbicide so people could protect themselves, their children, and pets. The most notable victories from this campaign were in New York: Roundup was banned on state property in 2020 and city property in 2021.
​In 2010, Marnie co-authored the Green Party's Green New Deal which outlined a slate of progressive policies aimed at creating millions of green union jobs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Marnie helped create the first national public education campaign about the potential harm of genetically engineered food. She brought communities together to increase the availability of toxic-free, nutritious food while working with parents across the country to kick junk food out of their schools.
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