Leadership Clark County

Our next project team from the Class of 2026 we would like to highlight partnered with Meals on Wheels People to support a pilot program providing pet food to clients. The team provided a strategic roadmap to identify mission-aligned partners, sources of free or discounted pet food, and opportunities to raise awareness of the program. Their goal was to keep seniors and their pets together and fed.

Congratulations team JLAKEM on an amazing project!
Mentor, Jay Thomas, Community Partner, Maggie Thurman, team members, Ashley Jones, Lauren Wooten, Kelley Brown, Mason Kae, and Eric Lambert.

Each year our LCC class members complete projects with local non profits to help solve a challenge or need. This year the class chose their own community partner base on themes from the Community Needs Assessment Report. Over the next week we will highlight each team, their community partner, and the amazing accomplishments they made throughout the year.

Our first team had an environment theme and through an environmental justice lens, the team partnered with CRESA (Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency) to address heat safety in the Maplewood neighborhood of Vancouver, WA—an identified urban heat island—using two targeted strategies. They developed and distributed bilingual heat safety flyers to support community awareness, and they also produced a policy brief focused on advancing cooling equity across Clark County that was presented to Vancouver City Council, and hopefully will be adopted.

Congratulations to Sarah Mittleman, Devon Lobato, Reed Wiesneski, Alex Bates, Mary Hurly, and Sav Durkin on completing an outstanding project. We are also thankful to project mentor, Jessica Garnes, and Community Partner, Scott Johnson.

Congratulations to the LCC Graduating Class of 2026 and thank you to Riverview Bank Riverview Bank for your sponsorship and continued support.

Last night we heard from many amazing speakers including CEO and President of Riverview Bank, Nicole Sherman, Ridgefield City Manager and Keynote Speaker, Steve Stuart, and this year's Class Speaker, Deken Letinich. We also highlighted the community impact projects created by this year's class and honored their hard work throughout the year.

And even though we made the class take a million group pictures throughout the last nine months, we managed to forget to take a group picture last night, so here they are in the beginning at the retreat! 😂