Who We Are

Power Up for Climate Solutions is an Oregon nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation. Contributions are tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

CARLA A. WISE, PH.D.

Carla is a plant conservation biologist, climate solutions advocate and writer. She has a master’s degree in environmental policy from Yale and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Colorado. Since 2006, she has been writing about environmental issues and climate change. In 2013, she helped launch the Corvallis Chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby, where she has served as chapter co-leader, congressional liaison and coordinator of the progressive outreach action team. In 2016, she published Awake on Earth: Facing Climate Change with Sanity and Grace, a book about finding positive responses to the climate crisis.

In 2018, with the scientific warnings growing ever more urgent, the impacts more catastrophic, and the politics in the U.S. more discouraging, she decided she needed to focus more on offering those concerned about the climate crisis but uncertain what to do simple, impactful ways to take action on climate. This led her to found Power Up For Climate Solutions. Currently she serves as both Executive Director and member of the Board of Directors.

JEN MYERS, Ph.D., Board President
-Visiting Assistant Professor of Sustainability, Wells College

Jen Myers (she/her/hers) has a master’s in Environmental Ethics and a doctoral degree in Sustainability Education. Jen has significant experience in the non-profit sector developing local food systems. She has studied decolonizing re-localization efforts in communities throughout the world and sees her role as an ally to frontline communities working for climate justice. Joining her voice with others coping with climate grief and anxiety, Jen serves on the Board of Power Up for Climate Solutions to help envision and enact the transition to a resilient, post-carbon future.

Margaret Wilson-Moses, Board Secretary
-Senior Product Engineer, Inpria Corporation

Margaret Wilson-Moses is is a Senior Product Engineer at Inpria Corporation, a JSR company, where she supports the development of their metal oxide photoresist for use in advanced photolithography applications. Margaret has steadily increased her involvement in climate activism over the past 5 years, seeing benefits to both organized national action and the less tangible work of fanning political will in the community. She comes to Power up for Climate Solutions with relentless positivity and a practical mindset.

AMY M. CARD, M.D., Board Member
-OB Hospitalist, Salem Health Medical Group

Dr. Amy Card comes to Power Up for Climate Solutions as just the kind of person we hope to inspire and to empower.  She wasn’t previously active in the climate change movement, but in recent years she has become more and more concerned about the catastrophic effects on our health and security from human-caused global warming. For some time, she has been taking steps to lower her carbon footprint through lifestyle choices. Now, through Power Up for Climate Solutions she wants to help folks make an impact individually, locally, and globally.

MARK M. VAN STEETER, Ph.D., Board Member
-Chair, Dept. of Geography and Sustainability, Western Oregon University

Dr. Mark Van Steeter is a professor in the department of Geography & Sustainability at Western Oregon University.  He holds a master’s degree in Environmental Studies from Yale university and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Colorado.  He believes that people will only protect what they love, so the underlying goal of his 22 years of teaching has been to nurture a passion for the world in his students.  He has found that students are usually eager to be part of the solution regarding climate change, but they do not know what to do.  He is on the board of Power up for Climate Solutions because he believes the organization is an essential catalyst for guiding public action.