Bethanne Darby

BethAnne is a passionate advocate supporting organizations to achieve their missions. A champion for strong public policy to support the greater good, BethAnne’s extensive experience includes public education, healthcare, public health, retirement security, labor unions, and public defense services for youth. Clients benefit from BethAnne’s big picture problem solving using detailed analysis, strong communication, and effective advocacy.

In her over 20 year career, BethAnne has served in non-profits, private businesses, and government institutions alike. As the Assistant Executive Director for Public Affairs at the Oregon Education Association, BethAnne made her mark on public education and labor. During her tenure she built effective grassroots coalitions internally and externally to support the political and communications strategies necessary to achieve the Association’s goals for its 42,000 members. This included her leadership on strategic governance teams for high-stakes candidate and ballot measure campaigns, and as OEA’s chief lobbyist for stable and equitable education funding, affordable healthcare, and retirement security among other subjects important to OEA.

After the OEA, BethAnne served at the Oregon Health Authority where she delivered strategic communication and policy to improve access to healthcare for Oregon’s one million Medicaid members. This required coordination across 4,000 OHA staff and stakeholders including tribal governments; labor unions; policymakers at local, state, and federal levels; the press; and other interested parties.