Columbia Riverkeeper’s team includes scientists, environmental lawyers, community organizers, and communications specialists. We organize and support river communities, enforce environmental laws, and build strategic coalitions. Our mission is to protect and restore the Columbia River and all life connected to it.
We Are Columbia Riverkeeper: Meet Our Staff
Simone Anter
Staff Attorney & Hanford Program Director
She / Her
simone@columbiariverkeeper.org | (541) 399-5312
Andrea Capere
Communications Specialist
She / Her and They / Them
andrea@columbiariverkeeper.org | (541) 399-3361
Audrey Klein
Events & Operations Coordinator
She / Her
klein@columbiariverkeeper.org | (503) 432-8927
Siobhán O’Halloran
Finance & Administration Director
She / Her
siobhan@columbiariverkeeper.org | (541) 399-3432
Liz Terhaar
Communications and Marketing Director
She / Her
liz@columbiariverkeeper.org | (503) 784-5324
DEENA T. GROSSMAN
Columbia Riverkeeper is a pioneer in many ways, not the least of which is being an environmental non-profit with a volunteer Composer-in-Residence.
Meet the Board
Columbia Riverkeeper’s Board of Directors oversees the organization’s conservation goals and policies, finances, and public relations.
Our mission is to protect and restore the Columbia River and all life connected to it.
Congresswoman Elizabeth Furse announced the formation of Columbia Riverkeeper on Earth Day, 2000. But currents run deeper than 2000. Columbia River United, led by Greg and Cyndy DeBruler, formed in 1989 in the Gorge, and Congresswoman Furse started Clean Water Columbia in Portland in 1997. The two groups merged to create one voice to protect the mighty river: Columbia Riverkeeper.