Lorette Waggoner

Operations Coordinator

pronouns: she/her

Lorette joined LTWC in December, 2019 as our Operations Coordinator to assist in supporting the day–to–day operations of the council. She has a B.S. in Management from Linfield College and brings a wealth of office support, management, and administration experience to her work with the council. She has worked as an entrepreneur and for both for–profit and nonprofit organizations. She is a strategist who loves to streamline and document operations and general management/administrative processes. She also has extensive experience in sales and marketing and in computer systems and works to help keep our computers and software up-to-date. She has a great love of learning and welcomes the on-going challenge of the constant changes that are prevalent our fast-paced world.

Lorette is a fourth generation Oregonian who loves living in the Willamette Valley. During her youth, her love of wild places was fostered by her life on the family’s 40–acre orchard farm near Rickreall and annual summer weeks at Camp Kilowan along Teal Creek, near Falls City. She enjoys as many camping trips as she can squeeze into each summer in her 1958 Aloha Travel Trailer. Lorette has lived in Eugene with her husband, David, since 1979, and they have an adult daughter, Bethany. Besides the outdoors, Lorette enjoys jewelry–making, crafting and DIY projects, creating SoulCollage® cards, building/drawing labyrinths, reading, and cooking.