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What happens when Oregon state agencies team up with Watch Duty to rethink disaster preparedness? Get an inside look at a new pilot bringing government data into the hands of people who need it most.
Want to tell Oregon state agencies and Watch Duty what your community actually needs? Here’s your chance. Join the conversation, challenge assumptions, and help shape what comes next. Audience participation is encouraged.
Jim Cupples es Coordinador Regional de Sistemas Alimentarios en el Oregon Department of Agriculture (Departamento de Agricultura de Oregón), donde dirige proyectos para coordinar las cadenas de suministro y fortalecer la infraestructura alimentaria y agrícola de Oregón. Su trabajo incluye crear centros regionales de negocios de alimentos y agricultura, coordinar entre agencias estatales y aliados locales, y mejorar la forma en que los datos de infraestructura y transporte se pueden usar para apoyar la preparación ante emergencias y la resiliencia económica.
Antes de unirse a ODA, Jim trabajó en proyectos de recuperación económica, infraestructura de internet de banda ancha, tecnología agrícola y desarrollo rural en todo Oregón y el noroeste del Pacífico. Tiene una maestría en Liderazgo Organizacional de Gonzaga University y una licenciatura en Ciencias Políticas de University of Oregon.
Sunny Summers is a Senior Policy Advisor at the Oregon Department of Agriculture (ODA), where she serves as rules coordinator and emergency management liaison and works on coexistence issues. She believes people should have a voice in how the work gets done. In more than 20 years at ODA, she has worked in pesticide regulation, cannabis policy, grant administration, and rulemaking. Sunny holds a B.S. from Oregon State University and a Master of Legal Studies from Willamette University College of Law.
Paris has been at the ODOT Climate Office for five years and currently leads the Adaptation and Resilience Program. She is the co-author of ODOT’s Adaptation and Resilience Roadmap, which includes a robust climate hazard risk analysis for the state highway system, including hazard maps available for public use.
Chris Jagger is the co-owner and operator of Blue Fox Farm in the Applegate Valley, where he runs the Applegate Valley food aggregation hub. He serves as coordinator for the RFABC technical assistance program, a project of RVFSN sponsored by the Oregon Department of Agriculture. He also works independently as a consultant helping farms strengthen their systems and adopt new technologies. Across all of this work, his focus stays the same: building stronger, more resilient food systems to keep communities fed and farmers farming.
Colton Duval is part of Watch Duty’s founding commercial team, helping organizations protect the people, assets, and infrastructure exposed to wildfire risk. Growing up in Southern Oregon, he saw firsthand the impact of wildfires on his community and the difference Watch Duty made when it arrived in the Rogue Valley. Today, he lives in the Rogue Valley with his wife and two kids under two, spending his free time mountain biking, snowboarding, and exploring the hills he grew up around.
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