Board of Directors

Good Bones is powered by a dedicated working board — no staff, just volunteers with big hearts and busy hands (a skeleton crew, if you will). Between us we handle everything from strategy and initiatives to community outreach and partnerships. We have different yet complementary backgrounds and one shared goal: keeping pets out of the shelter and with their people.

  • erin@goodbonesalliance.org
    (she/her)

    Erin is the President of Good Bones, where she combines more than twenty years of experience in design, marketing, and business strategy with her long standing passion for animal welfare. With a background in managing complex projects and fostering both creative and operational collaboration, she brings a strategic, design-led approach to the organization. Drawing on her expertise in brand development and her belief that visual communication is a powerful tool for connection, Erin helps guide Good Bones in providing compassionate solutions to keep pets and their families together.

    Erin’s roots in animal welfare run deep. After growing up in a family that valued empathy for all creatures, her advocacy began in college when she rescued a pit bull puppy, Cash, from an uncertain fate after being born under newly enacted breed-specific legislation. Witnessing the stigma surrounding her dog, Erin was inspired to advocate for fair and compassionate animal policies. When Cash passed, Erin continued her dedication by fostering dogs, especially those with behavioral challenges, and mentoring other foster caregivers and adopters.

    Erin lives in Portland, where she shares her life with her partner, Joe, and their rescue dogs, Jacob (Bull Terrier, Bully, Pointer) and Maila (Boxer, Cattle Dog). She works as the Art Director at Danner Boots, where she applies her creative vision to product marketing while surrounding herself with the animals she loves and advocates for.

  • missi@goodbonesalliance.org
    (she/her)

    Missi serves as Vice President and Secretary for Good Bones, where she brings her experience in operations, senior management, strategy, and community organizing to support the mission of keeping pets and their people together. Having worked extensively with local animal welfare and housing organizations, she focuses on finding community-based solutions and equitable access to resources.

    Animals have been by Missi's side from the very beginning, inspiring her to start volunteering with rescues, hosting adoption events, and learning about animal welfare back in high school — and she’s never really stopped. Her passion for the intersection of housing access and animal welfare stems from personal experience: in her early adult years, she navigated housing insecurity alongside her pet rat, Gus, which deepened her belief that everyone deserves the stability of home (no matter what that looks like) and the comfort of a companion (no matter what that looks like, too).

    A Portland resident for nearly 20 years, Missi continues to champion the connection between housing, animals, and belonging as co-agent of a local real estate team, Rainboots Realty, with her sister. Outside of work and volunteering, she shares her free time with her partner, Shane, and their two rescue dogs, Olive (from Warm Springs, OR) and Foster (from Presidio, TX) — all of whom are experts at reminding her daily that families deserve to stay together.

  • chastidy@goodbonesalliance.org
    (she/her)

    Chastidy is Good Bones’ Treasurer, bringing more than a decade of experience in leadership, operations, and management along with a serious affinity for spreadsheets. Since stepping into animal welfare in 2018, she’s helped local rescues elevate their systems, organized fundraising events and large galas, and facilitated nearly 150 adoptions. But her impact extends far beyond the backend: over the years, she’s fostered more than 50 dogs, 20 cats, 3 rabbits, multiple litters of neonatal kittens and puppies, and even a medical cleft puppy. Having also volunteered with human-centered shelters and resource centers, Chastidy recognizes that animal and human welfare are deeply connected — when animals need help, their people often do too.

    Having lived in ten different places by the age of 13, Chastidy knows firsthand how housing stability affects a person’s ability to stay with their pets. A particularly painful experience — being forced to rehome her beloved dog, Fancy — left a lasting mark and sparked a promise to herself to never again be separated from her animals. In her adulthood she’s been able to keep that promise, and through Good Bones now works to ensure others don’t experience the same heartbreak.

    Chastidy lives in the west suburbs of Portland with her husband, son, three dogs, five cats, and rabbit. By day, she serves as a Senior Manager of Safe Ride Support for HopSkipDrive, helping children experiencing housing instability or foster care get to and from school safely.

  • kelsey@goodbonesalliance.org
    (she/her)

    Kelsey serves as Good Bones’ Community Liaison, bringing over a decade of production experience, a background in visual arts, a life surrounded by animals, and a penchant for making spaces cozy. She knows firsthand the important role pets play in turning a house into a home — a place of comfort and respite for all involved, even if just temporarily. She’s fostered more than 30 dogs, each one finding their forever family with Kelsey’s personal touch (often under her self-appointed title of “Fairy Dog Mother”). She understands the powerful trifecta that is humans, homes, and pets — and she’s always happy to chat your ear off about it.

    As an only child who grew up knowing companion animals as her siblings, pets played an integral role in Kelsey’s upbringing. She cared for three cats, five dogs, three turkeys, one horse, and countless fish before she even graduated high school. Rescuing a stray cat in college and a pit bull mix shortly after moving to Portland deepened her understanding of what it takes for one person to be a dedicated animal guardian — and how vital community support can be. Through her work with Good Bones, she’s excited to help grow a community rich in resources, whether that’s time, effort, compassion, or connection.

    Kelsey calls Northeast Portland home, where she shares her uber-cozy space with one husband, three dogs, eight chickens, and a cat that only turns left. If she’s not at her house rearranging, she might just be rearranging yours.

  • clara@goodbonesalliance.org
    (she/her)

    Clara leads Marketing and Communications for Good Bones, bringing a professional background in fundraising, development, event production, and storytelling to the board. In addition to her communications expertise, she’s a Certified Professional Dog Trainer (CPDT-KA) through the CCPDT and is committed to changing how the world perceives pets: seeing each one as an individual and each guardian with empathy and understanding.

    Clara has worked and volunteered across the animal welfare landscape since 2016. With a special affinity for fearful and behaviorally complex animals, she was inspired by her own dog, Junebug, who has been her greatest teacher. Their journey together showed Clara firsthand how patience, compassion, and trust can transform fear into confidence and deepen the human-animal bond.

    A lifelong Oregonian, Clara lives in east Multnomah County with her family, including three dogs and a cat who’s pretty sure she’s a dog, too.