About Us

The Portland Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation’s work is focused keeping it clean upstream through our programs including #DitchTheStrawPDX, Ocean Friendly Restaurants, Green Streets,  Hold On To Your Butt programs and our Blue Water Task Force water quality monitoring program out on the north coast. Chapter meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month beginning at 7:00 PM. The meetings are open to the public and family friendly.

Chanel Hason – Chair & Communications

Ashley Duplanty – Vice Chair

Shelley Searle – Volunteer Coordinator

Britt Olsen – Treasurer

Sarah Mayer – Secretary

Jesse Jones – Blue Water Task Force Coordinator

Nancy Nordman – Ditch the Straw Coordinator

Ian Kennelly – Hold On To Your Butts Coordinator / Green Streets

Phil Schlieder -Sponsorships Coordinator / OFR Lead

Monthly Events

To find our full list of events, click here. For now, we thought you’d like to see what’s happening for the next two months up front and center.

June 5th – 6:30-8:30pm – Ian’s House: Green Streets

June 8th – 6pm-9pm – Spirit of 77 Bar: World Ocean’s Day Film Screening of Albatross

June 21st – 8pm-11:30pm – HI Portland Hawthorne Hostel: Hawthorne Blvd #DitchTheStrawPDX Pub Crawls

July 10th -6pm-8:30pm – Sellwood River Front: Portland Action Day – Sellwood Cleanup

July 29th – Holocene: Surfrider Summer Soriée! More details coming soon..