Jennifer Satalino Stone

Jenn is the Manager of the NELA Center for Student Success, a non-profit college access center located in Northeast Portland, and believes that every student deserves to go to college. Prior to the Center opening in 2003, Jenn spent 15 years as a college administrator in admissions and financial aid. Zealous about educational access for all students, Jenn is the statewide coordinator for College Goal Oregon, and a founding member of the Oregon College Access Network. Jenn has a B.S. in Economics from the University of Oregon, and an MBA from Portland State University.

She has two daughters, Andrea and Carolyn, both attending Markham Elementary School, Jenn’s alma mater, where Jenn is a frequent volunteer.

Elizabeth Fouts – Secretary

Elizabeth is an attorney for The Standard. Prior to that, she worked for several law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, representing businesses of all sizes in transactional matters as well as litigation. Elizabeth has represented several non-profit corporations, helping the organizations with their formations, corporate governance and contracts. She is a California State University, Sacramento graduate with a degree in criminal justice. She received her J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.

Liz spends her free time with her son and extended family who live in Portland. She is a recent transplant to Portland and is enjoying getting to know the area. She loves to cook with her husband (who she met in high school) and try new recipes.

Molly Ono

As a member of the Invesco’s sales and service team, Molly is responsible for delivering the highest level of service to institutional clients and developing new business opportunities. She began her investment career in 2000 with Invesco’s World Wide Fixed Income Group where she served as an Assistant Stable Value Manager. Before rejoining Invesco in 2007, Molly worked in Honolulu, Hawaii at the Bank of Hawaii as a Compliance Analyst. She is experienced in banking, retail investment operations and institutional investment sales and service and holds the NASD Series 3, 7 and 66 licenses.

Molly has contributed as a volunteer to the Children’s Alliance of Hawaii, an organization dedicated to caring for abused children and to the Hawaii Nature Center which focuses on environmental education and stewardship. Molly co-taught the pilot program Common Cents at the YWCA in Honolulu. The program teaches financial awareness and responsibility to elementary school children to better equip them for adulthood. Molly also volunteered as a youth soccer coach through the Oregon Youth Soccer Association. Molly graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

Katie Newcomb - Vice-Chair

Katie works for the Pacific Northwest Region of the U.S. Forest Service as a Presidential Management Fellow in Sustainable Operations. She's responsible for working with an interdisciplinary team to reduce the environmental footprint of the Forest Service by reducing waste, energy and water consumption, and increasing recycling and the use of renewable energy. Prior to that, she was at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science completing her Master's degree. She graduated from Oregon State University with a B.S. in Environmental Science.

Katie is a native Oregonian who credits attending Outdoor School with providing her motivation to pursue a career in environmental science. She enjoys running and soccer.

Ethan Erickson - Chair

During high school, Ethan discovered passion and talent while volunteering with the Outdoor School program. After graduation, Ethan enlisted with the U.S. Army Reserve as a Psychological Operations Specialist and concluded his military career in 2006 with the Oregon National Guard. Supplementing deployments to Thailand and Egypt, Ethan earned a B.A. in Human Communications from Southern Oregon University.

After college, Ethan worked with the Outdoor School program for two years as a Program Leader and Field Instructor. Over the last four years, Ethan has been working in Oregon and California for a variety of youth development programs; he has coordinated a coalition of college educated camp professionals who designed and built a pilot program generating social capital for Oregon’s emerging military communities. Currently Ethan is finishing his graduate work in Non-profit Management, and Community and Regional Planning at the University of Oregon.

Janice Gratton

Janice is also a member of the MESD elected Board of Directors. She served as an Advisory Board member since 1995 and in May 2003 she was elected to Position 6.

Janice recently retired as Manager for the Multnomah County Gateway Children's Center and Children's Receiving Center. She has experience as Director of Behavioral Health Services, as a School Mental Health Consultant for Multnomah County, an investigator/examiner for the Probate Court and a secondary school English History teacher.

Steve Ihrig - Treasurer

Steve began his educational service in special education at Jackson County ESD in Medford, Oregon and in 22 years worked his way up the I5 corridor to Multnomah ESD. Multnomah ESD gave him the opportunity to experience work outside of special education with assignments in ESL, TAG and Migrant Education. 

It was in the Migrant Program that he found something very special – the students and their families and their tremendous needs that ranged from the very basics of food and clothing to cultural and academic support.  He also had the opportunity to work with staff that shared and taught him their passions for the people they served.  It was through this experience that Steve began working with E².  Following retirement it became a relationship he wanted to continue.

Steve enjoys many outdoor activities but as long as the body cooperates, running is his activities passion.

Sean Schafer

Sean was re-elected to the MESD Board in 2009 for a four-year term. He is a Public Health Physician/Medical Epidemiologist with the Oregon State Public Health Division. He graduated from University of California Davis in 1983 and from University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1987. Sean practiced family medicine in Fresno, CA until 2003 when he moved to Portland with his family to begin his public health career. Sean's wife, Fern, is a pediatrician in Portland. He and Fern have two teenage children, one of whom is developmentally disabled.