Jayne Cronlund 
Executive Director

Jayne was the first employee hired by Three Rivers in 1997.  She is a licensed attorney in Oregon.  She enjoys hiking through the many beautiful forested areas where she lives in Southwest Portland with her husband Pat, daughter Rose, and dog Maggie. 

Sharon Wood
Deputy Director

Sharon comes to Three Rivers with more than ten years of non-profit management experience.  Most recently she was employed as the Executive Director for Willamette Valley Development Officers in Portland.  Prior to that she was a fundraiser for The Tualatin Hills Parks Foundation.  Sharon has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of New Hampshire and an MBA from Auburn University.  Sharon is an East Coast transplant, who has resided in the Portland area for the past ten years.  She enjoys outdoor activities, reading, and spending time with her family and friends. 

Barbara Bernstein
Development Director

Virginia Bowers
Conservation Director

Virginia has a Master's degree in Planning from University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a BA in Environmental Studies from Trinity College. She has worked as a land use planner for City of Tualatin and Multnomah County and as a park planner for the Tualatin Parks Department.  She completed the first Conservation Strategies Plan for Three Rivers in 2002 as a consultant and joined the staff in 2004.  She loves to ski, bike, hike, travel and be with her family.

Laura O'Leary
Stewardship Director

Laura comes to Three Rivers with nearly a decade of diverse conservation and natural resource management experience. She holds a Master of Science degree in Rangeland Ecology from Colorado State University, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Conservation and Resource Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, gardening and traveling.

Amanda Wilson
Volunteer Coordinator

Amanda moved to Portland from Missouri where she received her BS in Biology from Missouri State University. In college, her summers were spent conducting research at Arizona State University on stream nutrients, at the University of Kansas on monarch migration, and in a big, white van exploring the Rockies with her mountain ecology field class. After graduating, she was the AmeriCorps Community Stewardship Coordinator for two years with a local watershed group. In her free time she enjoys thrift store shopping, reading, gardening, swimming, and hiking.

Gaylen Beatty
West Willamette Outreach Director

Gaylen has worked in the non-profit environmental field for over fifteen years. Focusing primarily on environmental education, she brings a passion for the outdoors and working with the public in conservation practices. After getting her BS in Oceanography at Humboldt State University in the early nineties, she just finished receiving her Masters in Science Education from Portland State University. In addition to loving her work at Three Rivers, she also balances home life with husband and two beautiful girls to help remind her how important nature close to home is for us all in the urban landscape.

Stephen Brooks
AmeriCorps Restoration Coordinator

Stephen recently moved to Portland from Gainesville, Florida after working as a field biologist for wetland ecologists for 3 years at the University of Florida.  During that time, he received a BS in Natural Resource Conservation with an emphasis on the anthropological element of conservation.  He has fueled his interest and love of the natural world by working as a deckhand/naturalist on small adventure cruise boats in southeast Alaska during the summer.  Stephen is also a musician and enjoys performing and recording in his free time.