Greg has been a public servant for most of his career, and he wants to continue to serve his community.

Though his life experiences have been quite diverse, what has remained consistent are Greg’s passion and commitment to social, economic, racial, and environmental justice.

Greg grew up in New Jersey in a family of educators. His grandmother, mother, father, and sister all taught in public schools.  Greg completed his undergraduate degree at Penn State University and went to graduate school at the University of California in Berkeley, where he earned two master’s degrees: one in City Planning, and another in Civil Engineering.  He worked as a public transportation planner in Oakland for six years, where he was a proud AFSCME union member and focused his work on connecting transit-dependent residents to jobs, schools, shopping, healthcare, recreation, and all other aspects of their lives.

After nearly 10 years in the Bay Area, Greg felt a need for change and made a big move to the country of Colombia where he opened up a small ecotourism and hostel business. Living and working in cultures so different from his own upbringing taught him many valuable life lessons that shaped his understanding of the world and served him well in both his personal and professional lives.  Some of those lessons include the need to practice tolerance, patience, and humility and to respect, acknowledge, and listen actively to all people, especially those with backgrounds and life experiences different from our own. 

After nearly 10 years living overseas, he returned to the U.S. to work as a National Park Ranger.  He spent seven years as an interpretive ranger across four western national parks, including Crater Lake, educating visitors and inspiring stewardship of some of our nation’s most iconic natural and cultural resources.  Greg was then hired as an Outdoor Recreation Planner for the Bureau of Land Management out of Springfield, OR.  He worked there until the second Trump Administration’s DOGE initiative dramatically changed his working conditions and job security, forcing his resignation. 

Greg and his spouse (also a public school teacher) love living in Corvallis because it is such a diverse, inclusive, engaged, and progressive community that values and respects all people.

The city is facing big fiscal challenges in the coming years, and Greg wants to make sure that the budget is not balanced on the backs of working people or the most vulnerable members of our community. He wants to see a more progressive city tax system that requires wealthy residents, non-resident workers, businesses, and large institutions like the university and the hospital; to pay their fair share for the city services they utilize every day. Greg wants to couple that tax system with lower city service fees that currently disproportionately burden lower-income working families.

Greg is running because he loves his community, he cares, and he has a vision of an even more inclusive community that takes care of each other.