Sharon Bernstein is co-founder and deputy director of Family Forward Oregon. She leads our education and workplace programs and manages our finances. Sharon’s experience as a parent has solidified her understanding that we can’t make social change through individual decisions alone — we must work together as a movement. Her passion for social justice drives her work. Sharon is the mother of two young boys ages 4 and 7.
Lisa Frack is Family Forward Oregon’s Communications Director and co-founder 
of The Mother PAC, our affiliated political action committee. Lisa joined forces with the local blog urbanMamas in 2007 to create a parent-activism blog called Activistas. She believes profoundly in the need to modernize workplaces and state and federal policies to work for today’s families. Armed with a masters degree in public policy ans two kids, Lisa tackled these issues online – and found a community of Portland mothers willing to work together for workplace and public policies that better support today’s families. She previously worked as an online organizer and social media manager for the Environmental Working Group tackling environmental health policy reform.
Andrea Paluso is co-founder and executive director of Family Forward Oregon and The Mother PAC. Andrea is a social worker turned community activist and fervent policy wonk. She has worked in public schools, community health clinics, and in international development. She has master’s degrees from Columbia University in social work and public health and a work history in public policy and nonprofit program management. Andrea hopes that her work with Family Forward Oregon will inspire parents, employers and policy-makers to create the kinds of policies that make work-life balance possible for all Oregon families. Andrea is the mother of two kids, ages 4 and 6.
