Dianne Riley

Dianne Riley is the Equity Agenda Coordinator at Coalition for a Livable Future. Dianne has over 30 years experience as an activist, organizer and student of interdisciplinary studies. As both activist and student, she has worked extensively on issues of environmental and social change. She received a BA in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic, then spent a year in Asia, Africa and Central America as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, 1993-94. She worked as a union and community organizer in the Midwest before returning to school for a Masters in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She joined the CLF team in April 2009 to fill the newly created position of Equity Agenda Coordinator and currently works on the 16 Equity Agenda policy initiatives promoting "Healthy Places, Healthy People and Healthy Process" in the Portland-Vancouver metropolitan region.