Tony Salvador, PhD, NPCC Executive Director
tony.salvador@pdx.edu | 503-725-8224
Tony is an applied ethnographer with a passion for listening. He has had a long career as an organizational strategist at Intel and as a consultant leading efforts on the ground to identify and implement collaborative solutions for communities and governments locally and worldwide.
As an ethnographer and strategist, Tony has identified what makes communities, customer groups, governments, and institutions tick. And he has applied that knowledge of people and their experience of place to solving community problems. He recognizes that, in many ways, ethnographic practice is closely aligned with NPCC’s work assessing the cultural, historical, political, and place-based forces at work in communities and designing collaborative processes that help people understand each other’s needs and interests and find solutions all can support.
Tony is also nimble in an academic setting, having served as a senior fellow for PSU's Center for Public Service. He is also widely published on strategies to resolve real world challenges.
Tony has been a deeply-rooted Oregonian since 1993. On his way to a meeting during his first visit to Oregon, he fell instantly and hopelessly in love with the state. Since that time, Tony has embraced Oregon from Astoria to the Alvord and from Flora to Brookings. He feels that Oregon is all about its unforgettable places and the people who love them and that, by understanding this, NPCC is spreading the promise of collaboration and progress in Oregon.
Tony has a PhD in experimental psychology from Tufts University and a BA from Franklin and Marshall College.