Hello there! I’m Clare, and I use she/her pronouns. My name comes from a song by Gilbert O’Sullivan. I’m not Irish though–truthfully, I’m in the market for 23 and Me. Currently, I am living in the Gorge, I just wrapped up my MSW program at the School of Social Work of Portland State University. I’m honored to be working with CultureSeed as the co-facilitator of the Women’s Health Group at Columbia High School! I have years of professional peer support behind me as wilderness therapy guide for two years, a Youth Advocate for Columbia and Clackamas County for about another two, then as a Lead Peer Support Specialist and team supervisor for a remote, peer support organization. Every year, I am reminded of the power and wisdom of lived experience, and I am grateful to be in a community that shares similar values. I hope to show up with advocacy, critical thinking, humor, curiosity, anti-racism, feminism, and justice to everything I do! It shows up as I rock climb, birdwatch, protest, play with my dog, sit around a fire with friends…all of it.