Board and Volunteer Leadership

In March 2010, after 4 years incubating as a project within The Foundation for Medical Excellence, We Can Do Better incorporated as an independent non-profit corporation and began the process of seeking tax exempt status from the IRS as a 501c3 organization.

We currently have a three-member incorporating board, who have overall responsibility for the organization. The Executive Director reports to the Board of Directors.

In 2011, we will build a Founding Board of 10-12 members, laying a strong foundation of success and stewardship, upholding the importance of civic engagement and its role in policy and political decisions.

Incorporating Board Members:

Travis Stovall, Chair
Mr. Stovall is President of The Stovall Group, a consulting firm he founded to assist start-up businesses and companies looking to grow and reorganize. He was a health care administrator for a Adventist Health.  Active in the community, Stovall was named one of Portland’s top forty under 40 in 2009 and he sits on a number of local boards. He holds a degree in Business Administration and Finance at Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska and a Masters in Business Administration, from the University Of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Cate Millar, Vice Chair
Ms. Millar is a partner in the consulting firm, GamePlan LLC. GamePlan provides organizational development, marketing and communications support for mission-driven start-ups and established organizations. Active in community and public affairs, Ms. Millar currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Regional Arts and Culture Council. She was the Regional Director of Public Affairs and Communications for AT&T Wireless and a Senior Vice President with Fleishman-Hillard. She attended Southern Oregon University and the University of Oregon.

Joe Zaerr, Secretary/Treasurer
Mr. Zaerr earned his B.S. degree in forestry and Ph.D. in Plant Physiology at the University of California, Berkeley.  He completed a 30-year career in teaching and research  at Oregon State University where he is now Professor Emeritus of Forest Science.  During his academic career he worked and lived in  Poland, Germany, and France and holds an honorary Professorship at the Fachhochschule Eberswalde, Germany, where he still teaches occasionally.  He is a founding and current member of WCDB’s Community Leadership Council, and an active volunteer mediator and member of several health care reform organizations.

Community Leadership Council
We rely on our Community Leadership Council (CLC), made up of volunteers from around the state, to provide strategic input to staff and the Board of Directors on organizational policies and actions. Click on this link to see who our current CLC members are.