Our Team

Dorothy Atwood

Dorothy is a sustainability consultant and educator. She is the principal of her own Oregon-based sustainability consultancy with over 30 years of sustainability, environmental and management systems experience. Her work includes integration of management systems in to core business systems, development effective tools, and training. Since 2006, she has co-managed the ResourceFULL Use materials exchange program that explores innovative methods for resource sharing and by-product synergies. She assists organizations in identifying materials exchange opportunities and calculates economic and environmental (greenhouse gas) savings. Ms. Atwood is co-founder of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) where she is part of the on-line faculty. She has also instructed for Georgia Tech and University of Oregon Sustainability Leadership program. In her free time, when she isn't rowing, Dorothy enjoys gardening, traveling, and spending time with her husband, Tom and their two kids Duncan and Tara.

Corky Collier

Corky has been Executive Director of the Columbia Corridor Association since 2004, combining his eclectic business, environmental and political experience. Corky works on a wide variety of issues affecting the economic prosperity of the largest economic corridor in Oregon, including transportation, land use, and natural resources. He helped establish and manages two business education programs: ResourceFull Use and the Groundwater Protection Program. From 1987 to 1998, Corky co-owned a whitewater outfitting company in northern California. During those years, he led efforts to combine business and environmental concerns into cooperative action. Dam construction and operation, government regulations and fees, law enforcement and development were targets for reform. Significant successes were achieved at the local, state and federal levels. In 1998, Corky managed a ballot measure campaign to protect small business interests. By working with environmental organizations, neighborhoods and businesses, the campaign won 65% of the vote. He went on to work in media and public outreach. He serves on the Portland Freight Committee, Columbia Slough Watershed Council, and Brownfield Redevelopment Coalition. He holds degrees in Biology and Geography from the University of Texas. Old awards include Eagle Scout; new awards include the Columbia Slough Watershed Council Leadership Award. Corky lives in North Portland within view of the St. Johns Bridge and Forest Park with his wife Sara and son Henry.

Debra Taevs

Debra has worked in private industry, government and the non-profit sector. Beginning with a Marketing degree and sales career in Los Angeles high tech, she’s often enjoyed working across a wide variety of business, Universities and other entities and applying technology to foster higher levels of efficiency and profitability. By the early 90s she was grappling with how to apply business principles to environmental issues, and her road led to a stint with Peace Corps Romania doing NGO development and developing environmental education curriculum. She returned to the States via Seattle and received a Master’s Degree Environmental Policy from University of Washington. During her Masters work, she served as a Teaching Assistant for Climate Change courses and then coordinated a climate initiative for City of Seattle focused on paper waste reduction. For seven years Debra worked on projects for the Pollution Prevention Resource Center including Lean and Green, Managing a team of researchers analyzing chemical pollution, publishing research whitepapers, helping to develop the EcoBiz Certification program and By-Product Synergy Northwest and eventually acting as Deputy Director and Oregon Director. Debra has been a partner in running ResourceFULL Use since 2005. Currently Debra is Vice President of Business Development for Exceed Enterprises, a non-profit supporting employment for people with disabilities. She has been successful in incorporating principles of ResourceFULL Use into Exceed’s operations, establishing a Green Team which earned the GOLD Leaders in Sustainability Certificate from Clackamas County, and finding “triple bottom line” (People Planet Profit) opportunities for employment for the people that Exceed serves.

Bryn Hudson

Bryn is a second year graduate student at Portland State University in the Master's of Environmental Management program. Her graduate research focuses on stakeholder engagement and state agency outreach in coastal fishing communities. She joined the ResourceFULL Use team in 2016 as a material reuse intern. After obtaining grant funding from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, she signed on for another year to assist with special projects. Bryn holds a Bachelor of Science in Aquatic Biology and minor in Educational Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After completing her undergraduate studies in California, she returned home to Oregon to pursue a graduate degree and begin a career in environmental sustainability. In her free time Bryn enjoys traveling, hiking and exploring Portland.

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