Vivian Satterfield, Chief Sustainability Officer
Vivian Satterfield (she/她), Chief Sustainability Officer, joined the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) on Feb. 1, 2023, and transitioned into the City Administrator’s Office (CAO) on Jan. 1, 2025.
Prior to the City, Vivian served as the Director of Strategic Partnerships for Verde, a Portland-based non-profit whose mission is to build environmental wealth by investing in climate resilience through social enterprise, outreach, and advocacy, especially for frontline communities. A biracial, first-generation Chinese American, Vivian was born and raised in the city of Chicago where she lived until relocating to Portland in 2008. For more than a decade, Vivian has worked in Portland’s frontline communities at the intersections of environmental, racial, and economic justice delivering a track record of success at the municipal, regional, and statewide level in securing policy wins and programmatic investments.
Elaine Vizka Livingstone, Sustainability and Climate Commission Coordinator
Elaine Vizka Livingstone (she/they), Sustainability and Climate Commission Coordinator, joined the Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) on Mar. 15, 2023, and transitioned into the City Administrator’s Office (CAO) with the Chief Sustainability Officer on Jan. 1, 2025.
Before working at the City, Elaine was a researcher and instructor at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, collaborating with local communities, organizations, and climate commissions to integrate indigenous knowledge and history with science-based climate solutions for carbon sequestration, natural and working lands management, and climate resiliency and justice. A third-generation Slavic American and mother to a sixth-generation Portlander, Elaine was raised in Iowa where she developed her passion for climate science and city governance working on soil health and sustainability with farmers and two city governments in one of the country’s most agricultural intensive regions. Her experiences navigating the nexus of science, policy, and community needs continue to inform her equity-focused approach to climate action. Beyond work, Elaine is a SCUBA diver volunteer at the Oregon Coast Aquarium and Treasurer of the Oregon Queer History Collective.