Wendy Willis

Wendy Willis is a writer, lawyer, and advocate for democracy. She is the founder and director of Oregon's Kitchen Table, which is housed in National Policy Consensus Center in the the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government at Portland State University and the Executive Director of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium. Wendy has served as Executive Director of the City Club of Portland, as an Assistant Public Defender for the District of Oregon, and as a law clerk to Chief Justice Wallace P. Carson, Jr., of the Oregon Supreme Court. She is the author of a textbook, a book of essays, and two books of poems. Her most recent two books, A Long Late Pledge and These are Strange Times, My Dear, were both finalists for the Oregon Book Award.