Nathan Miley-Wills

Director of Strategic Partnerships & Policy

A lifelong Portlander and a product of its public schools, Nathan has managed programs and partnerships supporting young people and families locally for two decades in both school-based and community settings. This work has been focused on identifying and reducing opportunity gaps for youth and supporting family economic stability in diverse, dynamic and resilient multilingual communities. Whether leading school data teams and designing supportive intervention for students, building out a food pantry as a community school director, managing multi-site efforts to align early childhood and K12 systems or diving into policy work as a chief of staff in the Oregon Legislature, he grounds his work in the power of empowered and inclusive community decision-making to shift policy, practice and resources in ways that produce impactful and equitable systems change.