Katie Pearmine, Oregon Consensus Senior Project Manager
pearmine@pdx.edu | (503) 572-7398
Katie Pearmine is a senior project manager on the Oregon Consensus team at the National Policy Consensus. Katie brings extensive Oregon experience and a deep commitment to collaborative governance. She takes a deep listening and facilitative approach to leadership and is passionate about supporting community-led collaboration. Katie believes that communities thrive when people know their voices matter.
Katie has lived, played, and built connections across Oregon throughout her life. She has a long history of building strategic partnerships in her leadership roles in the government, nonprofit, and private sectors in local, regional, and international contexts. Katie grew up on a family farm in the northern Willamette Valley, attended college in Eugene, worked in rangeland ecology and outdoor education in Oregon’s high desert and on the coast, and supported businesses and nonprofits in the Portland metro area and across the state.
Before joining Oregon Consensus, Katie worked in sustainability, business development and food systems. Over the past ten years, she has worked for domestic and international nonprofits focused on community food security. Before that, Katie worked for several years at the Oregon Department of Agriculture, where she led a USDA grant program and helped food, beverage, and agricultural companies grow their businesses. Katie began her career working with a publishing and marketing firm focused on sustainable business.
Katie received her bachelor of science degree in biology from the University of Oregon and has a certificate in Applied Compassion from Stanford School of Medicine Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education.