Bradley Angle Names Jackie Yerby Executive Director

Thursday, February 11, 2016

GoLocalPDX News Team

Jackie Yerby

Bradley Angle announced on Wednesday that Jackie Yerby would step in as the group’s new Executive Director. Yerby will officially assume her role as head of the domestic violence shelter on February 22.

“We are so excited to welcome Jackie back to our team,” said Bradley Angle Board Chair and Attorney at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, JoAnn Kohl. “Jackie is a dedicated and experienced community leader. We look forward to seeing how Bradley Angle develops under her leadership.”

Yerby was most recently working for Renew Oregon, where she helped lead a campaign to build grassroots support for meaningful action on climate change. She also worked with he faith community and communities of color to bring their voice to the campaign.

“I am proud of the work leaders in our government, business, and nonprofit sectors are doing to address the housing crisis and homelessness in our community,” Yerby said. “And I am especially honored to join Bradley Angle in our efforts to make sure domestic violence survivors remain part of that conversation.”

Yerby also served as one of Renew Oregon’s Associates with the Center for Diversity and the Environment. As an Associate, she delivered equity training and facilitated equity sessions.

Before joining Renew Oregon, Yerby spent many years in the private sector, serving as the Sustainability Program Manager for Cambia Health Solutions, a Portland-based health solutions company with operations in Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Utah. Before working on sustainability, she served as Cambia’s Ethics and Compliance Officer working with management and employees to build and sustain a strong ethical culture within the company.

Yerby is also very active in the community. She serves on the Basic Rights Oregon Board of Directors and is the board chair of the Community Cycling Center Board of Directors. She is also serving on an advisory committee working with the Q Center Board of Directors to shape the future of the LGBTQ community center. She is also on the Governance Committee for Cycle Oregon.

Yerby holds an undergraduate degree in History from Yale University, and a Master of Public Policy degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Return to Her Roots

Yerby first moved to Portland in 1999. Upon moving to the Rose City, her first volunteer position was at Bradley Angle. She worked at the foundation’s emergency shelter for domestic survivors.

She credits those years of volunteer experience at Bradley Angle with forming a skill-set she would go on to use repeatedly. Yerby said it was at the shelter that she learned how to listen to others’ stories without judgment and to serve in a way that builds on the strengths and resilience of others.

Now that she is returning to Bradley Angle, Yerby has a renewed focus on the issue of domestic violence. She said she believes that now, more than ever, it is crucial to protect an support survivors of domestic violence.

"Supporting domestic violence survivors is more important now than ever,” Yerby said. Our community’s housing and homelessness crisis are felt deeply by people whose homes are no longer safe. Deciding between a violent home and violent streets is not a real choice. Survivors need good options and I’m looking forward to helping to create them with my new colleagues."

About Bradley Angle

Bradley Angle was founded in Portland in 1975. It was the first domestic violence shelter on the west coast, and just the sixth in the nation.

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