Staff
Linda Nilsen Solares, MPA, Executive Director
Linda, a native of rural Michigan, has had diverse experience in the world of health care, starting with public health community organizing in Central America with a non governmental organization called Outreach International.
After moving to the Portland area in 1993, she spent 12 years working for Washington County, most of that time in the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked as a Health Educator and Program Manager for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening program.
Immediately prior to her work with Project Access NOW, Linda managed the Essential Health Clinic, a free urgent care clinic in Washington County.
Linda spends her non-work life with her husband Edgar, a school teacher in Beaverton, and their two vivacious daughters.
Call Linda at 503.413.5549.
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Executive update for February 2010: New board recruits, new program, and an event to boot
Executive update for January 2010: Broadening the Project Access NOW circle
Executive update for November 2009: The challenges of success
Executive update for October 2009: Announcing publication of the Interim Evaluation Report
Executive update for September 2009: Consider the many ways to get involved with Project Access NOW
Executive update for August 2009: Project Access NOW sets sights high for 2009/2010
Executive 2008 holiday message
Linda’s profile in The Sign, the e-newsletter of Semiosis Communications, our corporate partner.
Lorraine Williams, Operations Manager
Lorraine came from San Francisco to Oregon ‘for the weekend’ a little over 38 years ago. Needless to say, love for the Northwest and her Hillsboro-native husband (and the son and daughter that followed), kept her from ever returning home, except for visits.
After operating her own businesses for 20 years and about to send their youngest off to college, Lorraine found herself looking for new and interesting horizons. For the last 11 years, her time has been spent working with a large health insurance company, Tuality Healthcare, and currently Project Access NOW. She describes her position, Program Coordinator, as the most gratifying, exciting, purposeful endeavor of her life, next to her family!
Lorraine also appreciates her roles on the boards of The Essential Health Clinic and the Hillsboro Tuesday MarketPlace.
She fills her spare time with family, gardening, reading, music, dusting her husband’s rock collection, and volunteering.
Call Lorraine at 503.413.5561.
Margaret Lamb, Pharmacy Resource Specialist
Margaret comes from Colorado and she’s still getting used to the weather difference up here in Portland! Margaret graduated from Colorado College in 2005 with a degree in Spanish. After graduation, she served as a humanitarian aid volunteer in the U.S.-Mexico border area for a summer and then worked as a bilingual case manager for developmentally disabled adults in her hometown in Colorado.
After about 3 years, she decided to relocate to the Pacific Northwest for an adventure and she sure enough found Project Access NOW! She is excited to be a part of such a simple and necessary organization, specifically serving as the Bilingual Pharmacy Resource Specialist for the uninsured. Margaret’s other interests include singing, dancing, acting, and exploring the woods, the countryside, and the ocean, all in one state!
Call Margaret at 503.413.5554.
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Britt Howe, Regional Care Coordinator
The latest addition to the Project Access NOW team Britt Howe will manage the regional care coordination pilot, which will be fully operational in January 2010. Britt hails from Connecticut and Colorado College; she brings to Project Access NOW her experience working with a Denver-area consumer health nonprofit helping the low-income uninsured get access to affordable health care.
Britt enjoys being a part of Project Access NOW: “I’m impressed by the organization’s ability to get the volunteers and community involved, and leveraging existing resources to get people care they wouldn’t be able to get otherwise. I’m excited to see the project in action.”
The program Britt manages will increase referrals for primary care for the low-income uninsured seeking help with the flu. The program will direct H1N1 hotline callers to other care they may need, especially basic primary care. Because the low-income uninsured tend to forgo care due to the lack of resources, the idea is to refer the eligible ones from the flu hotline to Project Access NOW.
Call Britt at 503.413.5541.
Elgin Dean, IT Specialist
Call Elgin at 503.413.5541.
