Tiffani Penson

Tiffani Penson is a native Oregonian and very involved in the community. She is currently the Supplier Diversity Officer for the City of Portland. Her responsibilities include outreach to Disadvantage, Minority, Women, Emerging Small Businesses, and Service-Disabled Businesses focusing on connecting businesses to contracting opportunities in the City. She implemented and manages the Minority Evaluator Program which requires City Bureaus to include at least one minority evaluator from the community provided from MEP Database to serve on evaluation panels awarding formal contracts. She implemented and manages the “We Are Better Together” outreach program that through a collaboration with City bureaus is responsible for supporting event sponsorships, trade shows, and memberships with our partnering organization.

In one of her past roles during the years 2009-2013, she was on Education Team and the Bureau Support Manager for Mayor Sam Adams. She helped implement and managed the SummerWorks program, which provides paid internships for 220 youth ages 16-24. Tiffani continues to manage the SummerWorks program for current Mayor Ted Wheeler.

Tiffani specializes in building valuable internal and external community relationships, creating and executing programs to improve youth engagement, improving government processes, and creating outreach opportunities for bureaus which combined leads to successful sustainable city partnerships and programs.

Tiffani serves on the board of Architecture Foundation of Oregon, Bound for A Cure, Kairos PDX, and Oregon Native American Chamber.