Executive Director
Brad Martin
Deputy Director
Candy Emmons
Candy Emmons is the Operations Director of the Democratic Party of Oregon.
Candy is a 5th Generation Oregonian, raised in Salem, Oregon. Candy became interested in local politics and government at a young age when she met Governor Barbara Roberts at the Capital in Salem on a visit with her Girl Scout Troop.
Candy has volunteered for a variety of campaigns and issues including LGBT and Reproductive Healthcare issues, working as an Organizing Fellow for President Obama’s 2012 Campaign, and serving as the Vice-Chair of the Benton County Democrats.
In 2016, after many years working in Youth and Camp program management, Candy joined the Democratic Party of Oregon Staff and is glad to put her skills to work helping to defend working families, immigrants, veterans, and other vulnerable populations through her work with the Democratic Party. Candy lives in Portland with her husband Vaughn and their dog, Dobby.
Compliance Director
Cindy Moody
Cindy Moody is the Compliance Director. Born and raised in Chicago, Lewis and Clark College brought her to Oregon where she settled after graduating. Cindy and her husband have three children. Cindy came to the Democratic Party of Oregon in 1996 after a career in banking and many years as the Treasurer for nonprofit organizations and nearly every school P.T.A or sports team in which her children participated. As Compliance Director, Cindy is responsible for campaign finance compliance and reporting for the Party as well as bookkeeping, human resources and insurance.
Political Organizing Coordinator
Ron Morgan
Ron Morgan serves as the Political Organizing Coordinator for the Democratic Party of Oregon. Ron developed a passion for sustainable grassroots organizing as a volunteer for countless progressive candidate and issue campaigns, and transitioned into his second career as a professional organizer in 2001. Ron has worked as an organizer for community non-profits, as campaign staff and manager for progressive candidates, and, more recently, as the Field Director for the Democratic Party of Washington County. He lives in Beaverton with his wife of thirty years, Loren, and they have three adult daughters.
Development Director
Katie Drumm
Katie Drumm is the Development Director at the Democratic Party of Oregon.
Katie started her political organizing career in 2008 as a MASSPIRG Campus Organizer- training and organizing community college students to help increase youth voter participation, fight global warming, and increase public transportation. Since then, Katie has worked in various organizing and fundraising positions within The Public Interest Network- standing up to powerful special interests on behalf of the public. She has run numerous grassroots outreach field campaign offices and during 2008, 2012, and 2014 election cycles she has overseen voter protection, voter registration, and get-out-the-vote campaign offices in Ohio and Colorado.
She started getting involved in politics because of global warming and is proud to have been an organizer in the movement that stopped fracking in New York. Katie grew up in Baltimore and graduated from Kalamazoo College in Michigan with a B.A. in Biology. She moved to Oregon in 2016 and is happy to call it home.
Katie is excited to be able to continue her career fueling grassroots organizing efforts and working to elect more Democrats who stand up for our shared values.
Digital Director
Tim McCann
Tim McCann is the Digital Director for the Democratic Party of Oregon.
Tim got his start as a news writer for WHDH, then the NBC local news affiliate in Boston. He later moved into political organizing with The Public Interest Network. There he worked with their in-house communications team, Public Interest GRFX, to create print and online campaign materials for their outreach operations, with a focus on the state and national Public Interest Research Groups.
Tim joined the DPO in 2018, and spearheads our work to organize and mobilize Oregonians online through email, social media, and many other digital tools, with the ultimate goal of electing Democrats up and down the ballot.
Tim grew up on Long Island, graduated from Boston University with degrees in Political Science and Broadcast Journalism, and moved to Oregon in 2015. In his free time, you’ll likely find him at bar trivia or in the North End at a Thorns or Timbers match.
Constituency Organizing Coordinator
Mario Parker-Milligan
Mario Parker-Milligan is the Constituency Organizing Coordinator for the Democratic Party of Oregon. He came to the DPO after helping merge ColorPAC and Progressive Majority WA to create Amplify NW where he focused heavily on recruiting progressive people of color, women, LGBTQ folks and people under 35 to run for local office in Oregon and Washington.
He got his start in politics at Lane Community College, where he worked with students to organize and campaign for Democrats in Lane County from then Presidential Candidate Senator Obama to Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy. After college he worked for the Oregon Student Association – one of the nation’s last remaining student run – student lead non-partisan statewide organizations, first as Equal Rights Organizer, then Legislative Director before becoming their Executive Director. Focusing on leadership development, legislative and campus advocacy, and building power for college students by running one of the country’s largest and most effective non-partisan voter engagement programs.
Originally from Washington state, Mario has called Oregon home since 1999 and has resided in the Portland metro area since 2012. He aims to increase and broaden the membership and participation in the DPO and local politics across the state.
Development Assistant
Claire Hoobler-Curtis
Claire is the Development Assistant for the Democratic Party of Oregon.
Claire was raised in the Portland area, but left Oregon to attend Trinity University where she graduated with a Bachelor’s of Arts in Communication. Afterwards, Claire attended the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and received a Master’s of Nonprofit Organizations.
Upon graduation Claire moved back to the Portland area where she served an AmeriCorps year at Schoolhouse Supplies. Claire is excited to join the Democratic Party of Oregon!
In her free time, Claire enjoys cooking, cross country skiing and spending time with her dog, Riley.
