New Partners

(from the March 2009 Newsletter)

Sarah Gregory first began work in support of the disenfranchised in sixth grade, where she led a student walkout to protest the imminent unjust incarceration of a stray dog on her school’s campus. Only upon receiving documented assurance that the dog would be adopted did she agree to return to class. That successful action led to many more years of involvement in community-based social justice organizations, including work with the Portland Central America Solidarity Committee, ACT UP! Portland and the Coalition for Human Dignity.

After attending West Linn High School, Sarah received her B.A. and Juris Doctor from Lewis & Clark College and an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Illinois. She is now employed as a Sr. Platform Methodologist at Intel Corporation.

Sarah and her son, Maxwell Bramlett, live in North Portland. Maxwell is in fifth grade at Holy Redeemer Catholic School, where he is particularly interested in science and mathematics. He also plays cello and piano, and is a starting defender on his soccer team. He is building his volunteer resume, volunteering at the St. Francis Dining Hall one afternoon every week or so since just before his fifth birthday.

The family loves to travel and spent much of Summer 2008 traveling through Central Mexico, learning to navigate the Mexico City subway system.