Meet the Team

Climate Resilience Facilitators

How the people came together

It all started with a mentorship. Tamara met Drew in early 2019. As a seasoned member of an organization advocating for political will to decrease carbon emissions, Drew’s climate leadership skills began there. Tamara agreed to coach Drew’s introduction to the organization’s volunteer work.

The pair went on to talk about the need for community-level acceptance of the climate crisis. Tamara’s consulting work in climate resilience at Changing Your Climate brought Drew to attend Climate Camp PNW. This experience afforded Drew the experience of discovering personal resilience to continue working for climate justice.

Drew met Zeratha through the Good Grief Network. Finding a professional kinship, their values coincide.


  • Climate Resilience Circle Facilitator

    Tamara is a consultant, facilitator, coach and educator with over 20 years’ experience. She has worked with individuals and groups around leadership development, communication, team building, and improving overall effectiveness with climate advocates, solar Industry professionals, and beyond.

    For the past 12 years, she has volunteered and served on staff for the Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL), a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization focused on national policies to address the national and global climate crisis.

    As CCL's Education & Resilience Coordinator, she deeply appreciates the opportunity to support advocates in building personal resilience and creating effective pathways to positive global change, with a special focus on integrating more joy and play into the climate mitigation process.


  • Project Leader and Founder

    As a recent college grad, Drew’s research was based on climate change and the effects on people and communities. As a social entrepreneur, they saw the gap in accessible resources for adaptation-level resilience support.

    Drew wears multiple hats in the organization, but still makes time for nature, exploring the Northwest, developing preparedness knowledge, family, and two fur babies.


  • Supporter

    Zeratha is a Visionary Artist, Eco-Doula, Climate Grief Facilitator, Eclectic Witch, Herbalist/Plant Medicine Healer, Tarot Reader, Psychedelic Advocate, Social Permaculturalist, and above all, a Mother of two wonderful kids aged 7 and 9, as well as two fluffy Persialayan kitties, one Frenchbo dog, a garden and household plant family.

    Zeratha is passionate about helping facilitate a present and future that promotes and enables a regenerative culture of systems of mutual support, reciprocity, relationship with, and respect for, one another, ourselves, and the natural world. They envision a present and future anchored in whole systems design and creativity and rooted in heart-based processing, radical vulnerability and the sharing and showing up of our authentic complex selves in these complex times.

Emergency Preparedness facilitators

How the People Came Together

All three of our volunteer supporters come with a vast skillset and layered experiences. They all believe in the mission and vision of Cascadia Stack. We hope that you will attend one of our preparedness workshops to meet them. All three of our facilitators hablan español.

  • The Washington State CERT and Citizens Corp Coordinator.

    Retired from military in 2000.

    Served as FEMA Incident Commander in Japan during 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

    Fluent in 11 languages

  • With a background in immigration law, Amanda’s service in emergency management has been diverse. She is active in BEECN and basic preparedness training.

    In 2019, Amanda envisioned and created NET camp (Neighborhood Emergency Team) for volunteer training.

  • Working as a Community Engagement Liaison, Pilar has strengthened her emergency preparedness skillset with various government agencies and community-based organizations. She does this through the lens of culturally specific communities to advocate for language-justice.

    Pilar met Drew during their Master’s Certificates at Portland State University in 2022. Their collaboration for the capstone project for the Social Entrepreneurship produced the research project: “Multicultural Communication in Emergency Management: Portland, Oregon”. Thier project won second place.

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