Gabrielle Bedeian

Gabrielle comes to the district with many years’ of experience working outside. She previously worked in environmental education, organic agriculture, and ornamental gardening before finding her way to conservation work. Her experience includes a term as an ACE AmeriCorps member with the National Park Service in California and a season as a botanic field technician for Oregon State University’s AIM monitoring program throughout sagebrush steppe in eastern Oregon. Most recently she worked as a crew leader with Portland Parks’ Youth Conservation Crew, leading species removal efforts in natural areas throughout Portland’s east side.

She is currently enrolled in Portland Community College’s Environmental Landscape Management degree program at the Rock Creek campus. She is passionate about field botany, habitat restoration, youth development, and building stronger social networks to support healthy communities and land systems. She is excited to learn from the staff at West Multnomah SWCD while serving the District’s water, soil, plants, wildlife, and people.