People

Leadership

Members who manage and steer our local conversation.

Allan Rudwick

Allan is focused on:

Working with PBOT to get more citizen action legalized
Traffic and parking
Supporting Strong Towns initiatives

Allan lives in Eliot, is co-Chair of the Eliot Neighborhood Association, works in computer chip design verification, and has been active in his neighborhood for more than 15 years.

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Harper Haverkamp

Harper's superpowers are:

Organizing
Advocacy
Policy
All things transportation

Harper loves Portland and advocates and organizes across a range of policy passions at the local and state level. She lives in Kerns.

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Jake Dennie-Lu

At Strong Towns, Jake is focused on:

New member welcome and education
Strong Towns book club

By day, Jake is a product manager in marketing tech. Interests include running (both trails and roads), Jiu-Jitsu and Aikido.

He lives in Northwest Portland where you can find him running in Forest Park or walking the neighborhood with his wife.

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Jeremiah Via

Jeremiah cares about:

Community
Tactical urbanism
Land use
Financial resilience

Jeremiah lives car-free in Northwest Portland and enjoys the city's music and vegan food scene. He works in information retrieval and uses these skills to help understand our city.

Natalie Legras

Natalie is interested in:

Neighborhoods
Safe streets
Housing for all
Affordability

Natalie lives in the Hollywood neighborhood and enjoys Portland's unparalleled food scene, pedalpalooza bike rides, and catching films at the Hollywood theatre. She is a data consultant in education technology.

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Sam Kallen

Sam is passionate about:

Data, maps and GIS mapmaking
Systems and processes
Zoning
Small-scale development
Placemaking
Event planning

Sam lives in the Mt Scott-Arleta neighborhood with his husband and three cats.

Victoria Via

Victoria is focused on:

Communications
Connecting and empowering volunteers
Housing
Land use

Victoria is an architect focused on affordable housing. She lives in Northwest and is on the NW Parking District Stakeholder Advisory Committee. Her hobbies include rock climbing, strength training and enjoying Portland's vegan restaurants.

Muscle

Muscle is our name for our most active volunteers, who take on extra responsibility to keep our city, and our organization, strong!

Northeast

Daniel Tomicek

Danny manages the Strong Towns PDX Slack channel and is a board member of the Boise Neighborhood Association. A native of New Zealand, Danny has been living in Portland with his wife and doggo since 2022.

Southeast

Alicia Garcia

Alicia is energized by projects that improve Portland’s walk-ability and bike-ability. She helps to rally urbanists in Hosford-Abernathy and recently created a Signal group for the neighborhood.

Daniel Te

Daniel is an urban and community development professional and a board member of the Buckman Community Association and SE Uplift. In addition to being a multi-disciplinary artist, he loves to harness the power of community for collective good.

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Elijah Probst

Elijah helps to coordinate the Strong Towns District 3 sub-group. He moved to Portland in 2010, weeks after his 18th birthday. Currently, he lives in Buckman with his partner, young son, and many lovely neighbors.

Peter Laciano

Peter helps coordinate the District 3 sub-group for Strong Towns with a strong interest in safe streets, transit and housing. A professional geologist focused on climate and water, Peter lives on the border of Buckman and Kerns.

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Rob Galanakis

Rob juggles time between family, advocacy and his small business. He leads the Glencoe Bike Bus and PTA and is on the board of Bike Loud and the Mt Tabor neighborhood association and has lived in Portland since 2014.

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Northwest

Adam Zerner

Adam is a software engineer and helps to build and manage the Strong Towns PDX website. He lives in The Pearl and is passionate about urbanism, especially biking. He built EV of Biking to help people evaluate how much value biking provides relative to driving.

Steve Goehrig

Steve helps to coordinate the NW District sub-group of Strong Towns and is focused on making Portland affordable and inclusive while preserving its natural and cultural beauty. A resident of Nob Hill, Steve is a professional digital artist and animator.

Tim Slevin-Vegdahl

Tim is a Certified Financial Planner, a computer engineer, and a Portland native. A resident of the Pearl, he is passionate about improving the city’s safety and affordability. These issues led him to Strong Towns PDX; he stays for the community.

Southwest

Jordan Del Valle Tonoian

Jordan focuses on transportation issues for Strong Towns and in his day job as a program manager for a transportation demand management agency. He has lived in downtown Portland since 2020.

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