Board of Directors
Steven Berman is a lawyer in private practice at Stoll Berne, a Portland, Oregon law firm. He has an extensive background in Oregon politics and has provided counsel and representation to many progressive and environmental organizations on statewide initiatives and referenda.
In 2008, Steven took a break from private practice and served as legal counsel and research director for Defend Oregon, which won all nine of its ballot measure campaigns. In 2009, as counsel for Our Oregon, he successfully lobbied the Oregon Legislature for reforms to protect Oregon’s initiative and referendum process from fraud and corruption. In 2010, Steven acted as in-house counsel and research director for the campaign to pass Measures 66 and 67.
Steven also serves on the board of directors of WaterWatch of Oregon. In his free time, he’s running the trails of Forest Park, surfing the Oregon coast or backcountry skiing in an undisclosed location.
Steven lives in North Portland with his wife--local artist Suzy Root--and their dog (and master of the universe), Ella.
Nicole Cordan is the policy and legal director for the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition (SOS). She lobbies on Capitol Hill and practices environmental and natural resource law, with an emphasis in Clean Water Act, and Endangered Species Act issues.
Prior to joining SOS, Nicole was the acting director and attorney in the Western Natural Resource Center of the National Wildlife Federation. From 1995-1997, she worked as a staff attorney for the Pacific Environmental Advocacy Center, the environmental law clinic at Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College, and held the Natural Resource Fellowship position at the law school in 1995. Nicole has written and lectured on various topics including hydroelectric operations and their effects on salmon, Clean Air Act, global climate change, federal and state water rights, and water quality standards.
She received her B. A. in 1988 from the University of Michigan and her J.D. from Northwestern School of Law of Lewis and Clark College in 1995.
Scott Pratt isn't much of a fisherman but he is more than ready to go on a guided fishing trip where somebody else does all of the work and all Scott has to do is cast a fly. When not enjoying the labors of others, Scott is an attorney in private practice, representing a variety of nonprofit and for-profit businesses as well as helping businesses and people in a variety of business, real estate, probate and related legal issues.
Scott has been on the OLCV Education Fund Board almost continuously since March 1983, with about a two-year break to run for the Metro Council and recover from running for Metro Council. Scott recently became the Fundraising Chair of the OLCV Education Fund.
Andrea is the legislative director for the Oregon Environmental Council. Andrea leads OEC’s work with the Oregon legislature and Oregon’s executive branch, as well as occasional work with Oregon’s congressional delegation and local elected officials.
Andrea worked for Congresswoman Darlene Hooley, where she provided district outreach on energy and Willamette River issues. In addition, she brings ten years of legislative experience working in our nation's Capitol as a lobbyist and legislative aide in both chambers.
Andrea holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Nicholle Winters is a lawyer in private practice at Perkins Coie, LLP in Portland, Oregon. Professionally, she focuses on business litigation and has represented clients in state and federal courts in Oregon in disputes ranging from antitrust to securities claims to breach of contract. Nicholle has served for three years as a mentor for the Multnomah Bar Association and served on the Multnomah Bar Association Young Lawyers Section membership committee. She has been named a "Rising Star" by Oregon Super Lawyers magazine for the past three years.
Nicholle is an Oregon native who grew up on a ranch in the Applegate Valley that was off the grid, using hydro and solar energy sources. Her family engaged in organic farming and gardening and she enjoyed riding horses through the mountainside. Her father, an environmental activist who recently founded Applegate Trails Association, a nonprofit organization focusing on creating and preserving a primarily non-motorized trail connecting Grants Pass to Jacksonville, still lives on the ranch and continues to use renewable energy sources. Her rural upbringing and environmentalist parents instilled in Nicholle a passion for the environment and conservation. In law school she became active in progressive politics, volunteering for progressive candidates and coordinating events and conferences on social justice, access to the courts, and effective public messaging for progressive ideals.