Bobby Cochran, MA, PhD, Oregon Consensus Senior Project Manager
jcochran@pdx.edu | (503) 725-6905
To Bobby, community means places where families and food grow, kids and rivers run, and people know and look out for each other. Bobby has been supporting community-based collaboration for twenty years across natural resource, health, and economic opportunity.
Before joining Oregon Consensus in 2022, Bobby worked for the Rural Community Assistance Partnership’s national office advancing its strategy and vision to work with rural and tribal communities across the United States. He also worked for Willamette Partnership building successful nonprofits and collaboratives. Bobby is skilled in linking research, collaborative process, policy, and innovation that help coalitions thrive.
He received his PhD and MA from Portland State University specializing in public policy and conflict resolution, and is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Leader. Bobby enjoys growing berries and tomatillos with neighbors and wandering the mountains and rivers wherever he happens to be. So reach out and say hi. Bobby says he loves any chance he gets to connect with great people doing cool things.